Tag: delhi

  • When you miss a morning run!

    When you miss a morning run!

    I generally don’t like missing morning runs! Runs should be in the morning when you are not fatigued and it helps kickstart the day in style. But when I have a sleepless night, like yesterday (thanks to the work stress), my brain forces the body to laziness mode of ‘you deserve more sleep; you can…

  • The wait for PB continues!

    The wait for PB continues!

    It is just a handful weeks to New Delhi Marathon and the training is satisfactory so far! Just to test the fitness and also with a selfish desire to break my 5+ year old personal best in half marathon, I decided to run a local race here in Gurgaon last Sunday (Jan 8)! Many people…

  • Running in Winters

    Running in Winters

    Winter is here in full glory in Delhi and for me it’s the frozen hands time! As someone with arthritis, I hate this season. I start wearing gloves for running from early December and when it comes to 3 degree C weather in January, my regular running gloves seem inefficient and I end up with…

  • Winter is here!

  • Delhi Half Marathon – Race Report

    Delhi’s biggest running event was finally back after 2 years of pandemic break. It arrived in all new form – new sponsor, new colours, new logo and new slogan! As the most sought after among the short distances, races in India, we expected huge crowds and excitement. But, I found the whole thing a bit…

  • Another Delhi Half Marathon, Another ‘Easy’ Effort!

    So, the Delhi Half Marathon is back in town. The history ADHM is back again with a new sponsor making it VDHM. Old wine in new bottle and doesn’t make much difference anyway. And doesn’t make much difference to me either. For the 5th year in a row (3rd attempt skipping two years of pandemic),…

  • Goodbye 2019… Hello 2020!

    Goodbye 2019… Hello 2020!

    Here we go! Curtains down for 2019… A crazy year for me… From the ups to the downs to the ups and then down again; the year gave me mixed emotions and trained me to be an ultramarathoner! 4700 km in 2019! Even I was surprised… Looking at the highs; Mumbai was good to me,…

  • Pacing stories: the highs, the lows, the lessons!

    Once the Tata Mumbai marathon (Jan 20) ended I decided that that was last of my racing season! Though I was few minutes away from my BQ, I knew I wouldn’t enjoy my run in New Delhi marathon happening 5 weeks later… So, I decided to accept the invitation for a handful of pacing assignments!…

  • The joy of Trail-running

    Done and dusted another Trail-a-Thon… Our annual trail running extravaganza in the Manger trail of Delhi-NCR… Always a pleasure to run there during the first weekend of Feb when it’s cold and foggy and we can go as long as we want… This was my 3rd Trail-a-Thon… I have done 28km in the past two…

  • ADHM… My YAY moment of the year!

      It was that time of the year in Delhi. Post-Diwali smog and pollution debates and then came along ADHM… bearing the brunt of the ‘concerned’ health professionals… After days and weeks of uncertainty, it did happen! 2017, to me, was the year of Full Marathons. I have been training for it since February with…