Tag: trail femmes

  • Life’s Best Detours are Found Off-road!

    I recently stumbled upon the quote, “Life’s best detours are found off-road.”And I haven’t been able to shake it off since. It made me reflect deeply on why I’m a trail runner. It wasn’t just because the best ultras happen on trails or because I went through a phase of being obsessed with ultrarunning. It’s…

  • Bhatti Mines Ultra 2025 | Race Recap

    As winter faded and Delhi-NCR stepped into the warmth of summer, a group of passionate trail runners took on one of the toughest challenges of the season—the Bhatti Mines Ultra 2025. On March 9, these fearless athletes toed the start line, ready to push their limits on a course that promised both beauty and brutality.…

  • Trail Femmes in 2024: Redefining the Trails, One Run at a Time

    Earlier this year when a small yet determined group of four women embarked on a journey to redefine their relationship with the trails, it began the story of Trail Femmes, a women-only trail running collective with a mission to empower, inspire, and explore. The Spark Trail running is often seen as intimidating, especially for women,…

  • The Running Therapy

    What is the cheapest form of therapy? For anyone who has gotten into any form of physical activity, for them it’s the easiest… As I stepped into October, I was starting to get drowned in work and the stress that comes with that… last quarter of the year and there are many in my ‘unfinished’…

  • Trail Femmes: Six Months Strong

    And, we made it to 6 months! It feels like just yesterday we gathered in Sanjay Van on a chilly morning to embark on a new journey for women and trail running in India. As the first all-women trail running club in the country, we knew it was just the beginning. From a group of…

  • Trail Running in Summer

    The summer in Delhi has been beyond everyone’s expectations this year. From the scorching heat in May and June to this terrible humidity in July. Running in this weather has become a bit challenging and as I see from Strava there are a lot of abandoned runs. Although most of my training runs are on…

  • The Trail Femmes Story So Far

    Earlier this year, when I started Trail Femmes, I wasn’t sure how the running community would respond. Today we have grown in strength having some strong-willed women joining the group. From 4 women (including me) for the first group run in April, to 26 in the July group run, the club has exceeded expectations… We…

  • Trail Femmes – The Tribe is Growing

    Yes, the tribe is growing! Trail running is considered a ‘man’s sport’, at least that’s what all the men claim here in the trail running space. The adventure, exploration… all those are manly things! Attitudes like that gave way for forming a women-only trail community – Trail Femmes back in February! From 5, we have…