I ran my first race – the Sunfeast Bangalore 10K – in 2010 – at an amazing timing of 1:26:25. Ok, so you know now - that I walked most of it but it still felt like an achievement because I had ‘dunnit’. I didn’t run for a while after that and jumped in at the Bangalore Ultra for nothing less than the 25kms. I have to confess here again that they had not opened the 12.5km category when I registered and since I had made a public declaration that I was going for 25km, it was just too…

By the time you are 35 you seem to have achieved all that you set out to achieve as a teenager – marriage, kids, job, education etc. and suddenly there are no goals!! This is why it is called ”mid-life crisis”. To overcome my crisis I decided to run the half marathon. Easier said than done – first it was a slip-disc (that I have had since I was a teenager), then a leg injury (that I acquired racing my daughter), pain in my knees and all other parts of the body. Maybe I am just too old (and…