Achieving terminal velocityVishy KurugantiJune 26, 20125 minsPic: courtesy northallertoncoll.org.uk This is Part 2 of an unfolding story on barefoot running. It continues from It’s all a vast upper body conspiracy! Two months later… After my strange out-of-the…
It’s all a vast upper body conspiracy!Vishy KurugantiJune 14, 20124 minsIt’s been a little over 3 months since I changed my running shoe. I fuss and obsess over my new shoe like never before. To the extent that I’ve taken to washing them after every run. Strange, huh? My…
What motivates most amateur marathoners?Vishy KurugantiApril 17, 20121 minsHaruki Murakami, famous novelist and marathon runner, this question in his memoir What I talk about when I talk about running. Marathon runners well understand what I mean. We don’t really care…
What kind of runner are you?Vishy KurugantiApril 09, 20122 minsHaruki Murakami (Pic: courtesy operatic.wordpress.com) On the way I passed a few other joggers, about an equal number of men and women. The energetic ones were zipping down the road, slicing through…
Go on! Challenge that bully!Vishy KurugantiFebruary 21, 20122 minsA friend and running fanatic (Partha) once told me a story about one of his friends (let’s call him Jake). Jake is one of those annoyingly gifted athletes — excellent at whatever sport he played…
For a few minutes less: running the Mumbai Marathon 2012Vishy KurugantiFebruary 07, 20125 minsThis is Part 2 of my Mumbai Marathon 2012 race report and continues from For a few minutes less: a race report from Mumbai Marathon 2012. The First 7k Somewhere in my pace calculations, I erroneously…
Pankaj Advani on learning from failuresVishy KurugantiJanuary 30, 20121 minsAt a recent TEDxIIMB event, I listened and watched as the billiards and snooker prodigy Pankaj Advani walked us through his accomplishments. He lingered on a photo that displayed his living room…
My Pre-2011 Marathon Running EraVishy KurugantiJanuary 12, 20122 minsIn 2002, I ran my first marathon – the Silicon Valley Marathon in San Jose. Finished in a respectable time of 4:32. After a 6-year hiatus, I resumed running after our return to India in August 2008. I…
My 8 year old weighs in on the barefoot running debateVishy KurugantiJanuary 10, 20122 minsLast Saturday, our 3rd grader had his annual school sports day. Since he had qualified for the heats in two categories (75 meter and 30 meter sprints), he was tickled pink and excited for weeks…
That one perfect drive!Vishy KurugantiAugust 22, 20115 minsFollowing is an excerpt from PG Wodehouse’s A Mixed Threesome – one of many beautiful golf stories from The Golf Omnibus. The scene being described is that of the story’s protagonist (Mortimer Sturgis…
