Tag: Running
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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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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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The story of Indian marathoners
Today, I came across this news article on the progress of Indian marathoners over the years. It brought out some really amazing points: 1. The Indian men’s marathon record is about 28 years old in the name of Shivnath Singh. It was set at Punjab marathon in 1978, a time of 2:12:00. It is 4th…
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We are the Champions!
We had a tennis-ball cricket tournament in our company recently. It is a much awaited 10-a-side fun-filled annual event, with lots of really crazy rules, like for every lady in the team a bonus of 10 runs, and 5 runs for every run scored of the ball. As you might imagine, lots of teams take…
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Dean Karnazes runs 350 miles!!!
350 miles run!!! bring out the calculators guys, we are talking 563 kms here! I can hardly image what sort of effort it would take to run that far. But to Dean’s credit, he has done this, and done it in 3 days flat (80 hours and 44 minutes to be precise). And all this…