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Why ultramarathons are a better test of endurance than Tour de France

Vishy KurugantiAugust 10, 20121 mins

Nearly all ultras are run continuously, meaning that there is no point at which the clock stops and everyone gets to retire for a large plate of pasta and a well-deserved night’s sleep, like…

Experiences with Interval Training

Vishy KurugantiAugust 09, 20122 mins

Definitely NOT what my stride looks like 🙂 Pic courtesy healthandphysicaleducationteacher.com I incorporated interval running to my training regimen last season. I was following Hal Higdon’s Advanced…

A quiet morning inside Osmania University

Vishy KurugantiAugust 03, 20123 mins

Major Devender Pal Singh (Pic: courtesy facebook.com) My mother fasts and prays. My sister meditates. I run. My brother recently made an astute observation about us – the prayers, fasts, meditations…

What is foot reflexology?

Vishy KurugantiJune 28, 20122 mins

The contents of this post picked up from a Global Healing Exchange link shared on Facebook by one of my friends. Something tells me that my experiments in barefoot running might find some relevance…

Achieving terminal velocity

Vishy KurugantiJune 26, 20125 mins

Pic: courtesy northallertoncoll.org.uk This is Part 2 of an unfolding story on barefoot running. It continues from It’s all a vast upper body conspiracy! Two months later… After my strange out-of-the…

Kids and one-upmanship

Vishy KurugantiJune 20, 20121 mins

Pic: courtesy cartoonstock.com The conversation below is between four Indian kids. Indian kids who know that marathon equals the precise distance of 42.2 km and isn’t a modifier like “5k marathon” or…

It’s all a vast upper body conspiracy!

Vishy KurugantiJune 14, 20124 mins

It’s been a little over 3 months since I changed my running shoe. I fuss and obsess over my new shoe like never before. To the extent that I’ve taken to washing them after every run. Strange, huh? My…

What motivates most amateur marathoners?

Vishy KurugantiApril 17, 20121 mins

Haruki Murakami, famous novelist and marathon runner, this question in his memoir What I talk about when I talk about running. Marathon runners well understand what I mean. We don’t really care…

What kind of runner are you?

Vishy KurugantiApril 09, 20122 mins

Haruki Murakami (Pic: courtesy operatic.wordpress.com) On the way I passed a few other joggers, about an equal number of men and women. The energetic ones were zipping down the road, slicing through…

Born to Run (by Lynryd Skynryd)

Vishy KurugantiApril 05, 20122 mins

I’ve had Lynryd Skynryd’s The Last Rebel album in my music collection for years (maybe even decades). As I was listening to my “Rock” genre in random mode today and it started playing “Born to Run…

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