Today we’re profiling Aayush, a recent graduate from MIT, distance runner, avid football player, friendly, popular, and an all-rounder. Aayush comes from a family of athletes and sports-persons and he lives up to the high standards set by them in these fields, carving out his own niche. We’ll be probing just one of his multiple… Continue reading MRC Veterans: Aayush Khanna
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D-Run-Ching in the Rains
Recently a friend asked me how to run in the rain. Well, it’s simple, you just go out and run. But there are a few points you should consider before heading out to run in rain. Running with a slight drizzle is one of the most enjoyable things you can do during the monsoons. Obviously… Continue reading D-Run-Ching in the Rains
True Grit: An Athlete’s Context
Haven’t we all faced that time in our life, which seems as if it were the toughest and it would be impossible to get everything in place? Reflect on that time when you were so angry with life that you just wanted to give up everything and stop caring about anything or anyone. Everything seems… Continue reading True Grit: An Athlete’s Context
MRC Veterans: Dakshesh Patani
Today we will be profiling the fastest distance runner of Manipal University. Dakshesh is to Manipal, what Mo Farah is to British athletics. His half marathon time stands at around an hour and thirty minutes and he has an innate capability to run a 4 min/km pace and win a race anytime you tell him.… Continue reading MRC Veterans: Dakshesh Patani
Empowe-Running
In 1965, the year I first ran the Boston Marathon, there were no women in the field of about 400 participants. On Monday morning, 18th April, 2016, more than 13,000 women will start the 120th Boston Marathon.- Roberta Gibb The Boston Marathon gender barrier fell 50 years ago, on April 19, 1966. That’s when Roberta Gibb,… Continue reading Empowe-Running