Race Report: John Dick Memorial 50k 2020

Somewhere on the trials The best thing about the local races is that you don’t have to travel far from home. Just to keep myself in a decent shape, I kept training well after my arrival from India in December 2019. I did put some good mileage in last 6 weeks and decided to ran …

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What is the cost of running a marathon PR? It may be around $9.82 per mile.

After thinking 10 times or more and discussing with my wife at-least 20 times, I bought the expensive stuff exclusively for myself. By now you would have figured out that I bought something related to running. That is correct! I recently got myself $250 Nike Vapor Fly 4% and as far as I remember, this …

Milwaukee Lakefront Marathon Race Report

I have not raced a marathon after running Boston marathon in 2017. In Boston I got fried in the heat along with my buddy David Vande Walle and we both finished in 3:09 whereas our goal was sub 3. If you are running Boston marathon, please don’t get excited about the fact that it’s a …

How I paced my friend in a 50 mile race?i

Let me admit this. I have been running out of ideas recently and didn't really know what to write on my website. Thoughts like 'most blogs die within 6 months of their inception' was creeping in my head because I have not had courage to think and write something useful and interesting. However that changed …

Badger 100K race report: a WIN, PR and a bit of disappointment

I had ambitious goal going into this race. My goal was to run sub 8 hour 100 K. I had worked really hard for this event. My plan B was to run faster than 8:09:12! The time I just mentioned was ran by Vinod Kumar Srinivasan in 2012. This still stand the fastest time ran …

How high mileage can make you a better runner

I read a book on running where the author said that less is always better. This means that you don't need to run a lot in order to be a faster version of yourself. The title of the book was “Run Less Run Faster” The main Idea of the book is that you do all …