Running and Beyond

Tag: Running

  • Isn’t it Risky?

    Isn’t it Risky?

    In a scene from the movie World’s Fastest Indian, there was a conversation between Tom and the protagonist, Burt Monroe, played by Anthony Hopkins, Tom: Aren’t you scared you’ll kill yourself if you crash?Burt Munro: No… You live more in five minutes on a bike like this going flat out than some people live in…

  • STOP Running

    STOP Running

    One Friday evening, about 5 years ago, I started reading Phil Knight’s Shoe Dog where these lines appear., “You run and run, mile after mile, and you never quite know why. You tell yourself that you are running toward some goal, chasing some rush, but really you run because the alternative, stopping, scares you to death. Phil…

  • Age is just a Number…

    Any conversation about old people and their passions in life will invariably lead us to the movie “World’s Fastest Indian,” a biographical picture based on the life of legendary Kiwi motorcyclist Burt Monroe, who set world records for under 1000 cc motorcycle at the age of sixty-eight. In one of the scenes, Anthony Hopkins, playing…

  • Pacing the 5:30 Bus

    To be a pacer in a marathon is an unique challenge, for it comes with a great deal of responsibility. You not only run your race but also help someone to run their race. My only experience as a pacer was during the Hyderabad Marathon in 2011, when I and KP tagged along for the…

  • Part 6 – The Barefoot Experiment

    Part 6 – The Barefoot Experiment

    I surely know the hundred petals of a lotus will not remain closed for ever and the secret recess of its honey will be bared. Running is a simple sport; But the choice of a good running shoe isn’t. The choice of appropriate running shoes is a hot topic of discussion, both on the run…

  • Part 5 – The Humble Lessons

    Part 5 – The Humble Lessons

    It was my songs that taught me all the lessons I ever learnt; they showed me secret paths, they brought before my sight many a star on the horizon of my heart Bruce Fordyce, nine times winner and thirty times finisher of Comrades Marathon, wrote a brilliant piece on the “Arrogance in The Comrades Marathon.”…

  • Part 1 – Comrades – An Introduction

    Part 1 – Comrades – An Introduction

    Either you have work or you have not. When you have to say, “Let us do something,” then begins mischief My earliest introduction to the word ‘Comrade’ was when I attended a Bank Trade Union meeting with my father. It was certainly not my introduction to ‘communism’ in any manner. I could barely follow the…

  • Thou hast made me endless…

    Thou hast made me endless, such is thy pleasure.  This frail vessel thou emptiest again and again, and fillest it ever with fresh life. Rabindranath Tagore, Gitanjali A week after running my first (and almost definitely, the last)! Comrades Marathon, I am still left with one unfinished agenda – writing my comrades experience. My writing…