Malnad Ultra 2017

"When you run on the earth and with the earth, you can run forever" - Raramuri proverb
Back again after last year. The course has changed. Its still my favorite race. This time, I bring Mom and Dad along.

A serendipitous call

Uttarkashi 135

I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order - John Burroughs

Uttarakhand. Also referred to as Devbhumi or "Land of the Gods". So what business does this atheist - yours truly - have here? Well, if Gods reside here, there must be something special, something exquisite. It gnawed at me. I had to find out.

24 Hour Stadium Run

"An ultrarunner need a finish line to stay sane, but if it obsesses him, he's doomed" - Scott Jurek

24 hour Stadium Run 2017. Friday, 28th July 2017

I had e-mailed the organizers a few days back, Requested permission to run 48 hrs. I thought that it would be a good training run. Later I got a reply stating, I was to run the 24 hour event. Whatever, maybe thats for the better, I thought. Besides, I wont get 3 days off work as I'm always on weekend shifts. Sigh! Such is life.

BTS Ultra - Brutal Sadistic Torture

BTS Ultra

“All the way from India – Shashwat Rao” announced the Race Director, Jeffri. I felt a hundred eyes on me. Some clicked. Some applauded. I walked up to the start following the other international runners as they were being called. I could barely muster a smile.