Tanvir Kazmi – Running Without Limits
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Delhi Marathon and blah, blah
The first international Delhi Marathon is supposed to be held on Feb 12th, 2005, or so their website claims. People from all over the world and from our country would be participating. No doubt they will, if they have a desire to see the worst of marathons we can have here. As I had mentioned…
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Amazing coincidence!
My blog mentioned my running number for Mumbai marathon, 552. One guy, Anand, was browsing through my blog, noticed my number, somehow recognized me by my BIB number, which was visible in one of his photographs he took at the Mumbai marathon, and was kind enough to forward to me the photo. Amazing… and thanks,…
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My marathon "Request List"
Most of the marathons we have here, including the recently concluded Mumbai marathon, leave a lot to be desired. Here’s my list of things I would love to change. 1. Start the Full Marathon early. 6:30, even 7:00 should be okay. Not beyond that, though. 2. Publish the full results, pleeeaze! All decent international marathons…
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The 2006 running Calendar
Here are some of the events listed on the AIMS website: Jan 15: Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon (over) May 14: Lipton Bangalore Marathon Sept 23: Hyderabad Midnight Marathon Oct 15: Delhi Half Marathon I removed the Tibetan marathon event from the list above, as looking at the event website, I doubt it is an annual…
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Haile Gebrselassie shatters half marathon record
Jan 15th, 2006 … 58 min 55 sec Haile Gebrselassie (Ethiopia), king of middle distance running for so many years, shattered the world record in the half marathon with a time of 58 minutes, 55 seconds at P.F. Chang’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Arizona. He lowered the mark by 21 seconds (previous world record 59:16). Gebrselassie…
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