Week 24 to 30 Dec

5 sessions but still no long run
1. Tuesday 10Km running
2. Wednesday 10Km running
3. Thursday 10Km running
4. Saturday 12Km running
5. Sunday 12Km running

Week 17 to 23 Dec

Caught cold, did only 3 runs this week
1.Monday 12Km running
2.Wednesday 11Km running
3.Thursday 11K running

week 10th dec to 16dec

had done 6 running sessions and one cycling
Running
1. Monday 11K
2. Tuesday 10K morning
3. Tuesday 11K evening
4. Wednesday 11K
5. Thursday 12K
6. Friday 11K
Cycling
1. Saturday 65K

week 3rd dec to 9th dec

had 5 running sessions w/o a long run
1. Monday 11K
2. Tuesday 10K
3. Thursday 11K
4. Friday 10K
5. Sunday 13K

Total 55K

Week 26th Nov to 2 Dec

Did 5 work-outs, coming back on track....
1. monday 12K
2. Tuesday 13K
3. Wednesday 12K
4. Friday 11K
5. Saturday 22K
Total 70K

Week 19thNov to 25thNov

Manage to do 5 running session and no long run
1. Tuesday 8K
2. Wednesday 10K
3. Thursday 10K
4. Friday 11K
5. Saturday 10K

Arun Bhardwaj's record run pics

1. Arun bhaiyya running strong after around 5 hours


2. Arun bhaiyya running with Raj ji


3. Arun bhaiyya running with his inspiration's picture in front of him


4. Arun bhaiyya waving Yannis Korus's picture


5. Arun bhaiyya's autograph on mine T-shirt

Week 11Nov to 18 Nov

5 sessions no long-run
1. Tuesday 11K
2. Wednesday 11K
3. Thursday 12K
4. Friday 10K
5. Sunday 12K

My Route these days Rue-de-Balart to Louise-Marie park

festival week 4rd Nov to 10 Nov

did only 2 work-out
1. Monday 10.5 k
2. Wednesday 26K (Night walk with Arun Bhaiya)

28th oct to 3rd nov

dull week
did only 4 sessions
1. Monday 11.5K
2. Tuesday 8.5K
3. Wednesday 10K
4. Friday 10.5K

No long run again

21st to 27th october

only 3 sessions this week
1. cycling 37 km
2. running 8.5km + cycling 12km
3. running 10.5 km

Arun Bhardwaj (Bhaiyya's) record run

Its 26th october and Arun bhaiyya has to run for 24hrs on treadmill, he has no experience of tread-mill running before. According to our plan I have to pick him up from his place by 9am. I reached bhaiyya's house 5 mins to 9 am, but then too we manage to reach the venue by 11am only. Record run is Adidas sponsored and at Adidas showroom, Connaught Place, New Delhi. After reaching the venue bhaiyya introduced me to Adidas guys.

Myself, Arvind (Bhaiyya's brother), Devinder (another co-runner)and 2 another friends of bhaiyya, this is the list of handlers, those who have to assist bhaiyya during record run. I was carrying a tentative schedule of what to give by when.

By 12:00 o clock bhaiyya started his record run and we started our job of taking care of his intake . Bhaiyya took 5-7 mins breaks after every hour and a half and everything went good until at around 7 when doctor came for check-up, this break is not a scheduled one. Doc found that bhaiyya had a bad stomach, doctor suggested some anti-acid but Bhaiyya refused to take any. After resting for 20 mins which is not scheduled bhaiyya came back on track and Still he was ahead of his target pace.

Bhaiyya now mixing walking with running and he was still better than target rate. After all these ups and downs he easily finished 160.9 kilometers(100 miles) in around 23hrs 42 mins and finished 24hrs with 164 kms on tread-mill(102 miles).

Its the time to celebrate, Arun Bhaiyya had set an Indian 'record' and entered the Limca Book of Records by running 164 kilometres on treadmill in a 24-hour non-stop effort here.

Addressing the media after completing the run
He said that "It was an absolute dream run, one of the biggest milestones he has achieved so far."
"I had broken the 100 km barrier once before, but nothing can match this exhilarating feeling of setting a record and receiving encouragement from sports enthusiasts from all over Delhi"

Bhaiyya further added that he took up the challenge so that it may serve as an inspiration for his children.
"I did not have any role model or inspirational figure in my
childhood. When I had a daughter I wanted to inspire her. For that I choose
myself. I don't want to tell my daughter to emulate others. I want myself to
directly inspire her,"

Week 14 Oct- 20Oct

manage to do only 5 sessions this week
Sunday 21K (running)
Monday 10.5K (running)
Tuesday 31K (cycling)
Thursday 8K (running)
Friday 37.5K (cycling)

Half Marathon (Sunday)

We (me and Arun Bhaiya)had planned a run on Rajpath from 4-8 am but I missed it because of some personal reasons. But then I was manage to do mine fastest half marathon in 1:46:30. After run I went for shopping and then to a colleague's wedding.

Week 7thOct -13 Oct

I have done 5 sessions this week
Sunday 40K running
Monday 10.5K running
Tuesday 6K running
Wednesday 38K running+walking
Friday 10.5K running

Total is around 105K

Pending Long-Run

As Bhaiya was busy on sunday so he proposed to have a long run session on wednesday(10 oct) night, I generally don't miss these opportunities to run with bhaiyya so i readly accepted that, though i did 40K on sunday and 10.5 and 6K on monday and tuesday respectively.

We planned to come to our meeting point by 2330hrs and we started our night party by 15 mins to midnight. we followed 1-1,1-2 startegy and done 38 kms in 4hrs 58mins. During our run we shared our interests and problems with each other. Its a no-moon night but we have seen 4 planets/satellites, one of them is very big in north(don't know which one was that)

Sunday Long run on treadmill

Bhaiya was not able to come on our pre-decided saturday night long run. So I decided to go for a long run on office treadmill. It went well i did 40K in 245 mins taken around 4lt of water and 2 bananas. Burning around 3237 kcal on Life Fitness 95Te Treadmill.

30th Sept to 6th October

did four running sessions only

0. No long run on Sunday and no run on Monday from last week cramp
1. Tuesday 11K running
2. Wednesday 6K running
3. Thursday 10.5K running
4. Friday 10.5K running
5. Saturday rest

Week 23rd to 29nd Sept

I got a cramp in mine right calf during sunday long run, didn't do much whole week
1. 60Km running (Sunday)
2. 6Km running (Tuesday)
3. 11Km running (Thursday)

Sunday's Long run at Nehru Stadium

23 Sept, Zola (bhaiya's daughter) turned 9 and bhaiya want to celebrate her birthday with a 90Km run. I thought its better to go along and take benefit from his company, these runs are very informational as bhaiya is moving wikipedia of running.
This time we plan to run from 5am to 7pm and bhaiya had given me target of 70K, the max i did before was 52K. But i woke up late at around 4:25 found bhaiya calling me, all this because of India vs Australia T20 semi-final. We went on mine motor bike to Nehru Stadium and manage to start the race by 7 only.
This is the first time i am running with bhaiya in scorching sun. We planned to run of our own. I started with 3-1 strategy followed by 2-1 and 1-1. Bhaiya did 21K in a stretch followed by 2-1 startegy. Raj ji(fellow runner) and Adhiraj (addidas guy) came to see us. I got cramp in mine right calf because of dehydration at around 50K and manage to do 60K some how(9hrs 30min), I was limping all the way in last 7-8 k. Bhaiya did 90Km in 12hrs 30min easily.
After finishing the race we picked our stuff and went to an eating joint in R.K Puram. We had masala dosa with lot of coconut chutney there. After finishing our meal we went straight to Bhaiya's place to wish Zola. Its 10pm and zola was still waiting for her papa. She cut the cake and I had a big piece of choclate cake before leaving bhaiya's place.

I like the way bhaiya celebrated zola's birthday.

Week 16th to 22nd Sept

Last week i missed Thursday, Friday because of mine thesis report submission and also I felt little pain in mine left thigh, did only 4 sessions
1. 30K running (Sunday)
2. 8K running (Monday)
3. 8K running (Tuesday)
4. 6K Hill Training (Wednesday)

Week 10th to 15th Sept(Dull Week)

Last week was kinda dull week for running, missed long run/Noida half marathon on sunday and didn't did much in the week too all in all have 4 sessions

1. 21k running (Monday)
2. 9k running (tuesday)
3. 6k running (wednesday)
4. 21k cycling (thursday)

Missed Noida half marathon

I missed Noida half marathon because of mine friend's wedding, but bhaiya participated along with Raj ji, Bhaiya did it in 1hr 46 min ranking 80 and Raj ji did it in 2hrs 10min he got cramp.

Bhaiya did a pre marathon run of 8k to the start line from the place he stayed on saturday night.

Week 2nd to 8th Sept

This week I went to Chandigarh on long awaiting Sarin bhaaji's wedding. Just did four work-outs

Sunday-52kms
Monday- 9kms
Tuesday-6kms
Wednesday- 21kms

will post some wedding snaps soon

Delayed start

This time only me and bhaiya planned our long run from 0000hrs to 1000hrs on saturday night. I reached our meeting point by 2330hrs and waited there for bhaiya till 0025hrs but he didn't turn up. Early in the day bhaiya called up and confirmed that he will reach at our meeting point along with his cousin by 2330hrs, so that we can start by 0000hrs, and I didn't bother to call bhaiya before leaving mine place and didn't carry mine phone either :(.

I left the meeting point by 0025hrs and came back to mine place with heavy heart thinking bhaiya must have sent some message on mine cell. I found bhaiya's missed call by 2330hrs, he generally do this before leaving his place. I called up bhaiya and found that he just reached there. By the time i came back to our meeting point its 0045hrs. Sandeep (Bhaiya's cousin) came just to see us running. We decided that we will do a 7hrs practice from 0100hrs-0800hrs.

Finally we started by 0100hrs and this time we started with 1-1,2 startegy ( 1 run 1 walk and 2 consecutive runs after every hour). Every thing went as planned and we finished our run with 52kms in 6:58:28 with 7kms in last 53 mins with five running and 2 walking kms. While running bhaiya told me his plan for next year, his run with Gunjan earlier in the day and motivating stories of Yiannis Kouros (Running God) runs.

All in all its a nice session without much effort though I miss Devinder's jokes and Raj ji's company.

week 26th Aug - 1Sept

After last week long run on Wednesday and party on Thursday, I went back to mine native place "Jalandhar" came back on sunday night so didn't did any training till sunday

Monday i did hill training 5km
Tuesday 8kms
Wednesday speed training 6kms
Thursday 8kms
Friday speed training 6kms
Saturday didn't did any thing as we planned a long run by midnight

Wednesday night long run..

After canceling our last 2 training sessions, finally the much awaited Wednesday arrived. Initially the plan was to run 9 hrs by me and Arun ji (I call him Bhaiya), But on tuesday another fellow runner Devinder also want to come for race and on race day Raj Singh ji(our youngest group member) came with his running apparel at work and wanted to participate in the trainning session.

Bhaiya, Devinder and Raj ji worked nearby so they planned to come to Bij Vasan train station and from there Its mine duty to pick them up (on mine bike :)). On the way to pick them from train station i drop mine cell phone in Bij Vasan village, but i was very lucky to find it back when i see a little boy picked it from ground and put in his pocket. I took this thing positively that today is mine day(as getting back a lost cell phone is a rare event on that busy road). I got call from bhaiya that there were already at train station and before ending the call i reached the spot.

We bought some fruits for our night run and then we were off to mine(on my poor motor-bike). Bhaiya prepared electrol-water and Rahul (mine Room-mate) helped us all to take the stuff to our running site. We had marked a 1 km stretch on a lonely road and our long runs are running to and fro on that marked road only.

Finally its 8:40pm and we were all set for our night run, plan was to run till 5:40 am. This is the first time Bhaiya asked us to run at your own speed from the beginning. We all started together and Bhaiya had taken lead in first 200mts but we three ran together. Plan in mine mind was to run first 10km on mine easy run pace and then run with 4-1 strategy (4kms run and 1km walk). So I took mine first walk after finishing 14 km, Raj ji and Devinder joined me and there only i told them mine startegy. Every thing was going on good until in our 18km-19km running round Devinder says enough, he was suffering from severe pain in his hips. We didn't(Me and Raj ji ) stop for him. As bhaiya is running on his own, me and Raj ji were running at same speed to stay together and motivate each other. After a while we changed our strategy to 2-1 strategy. Its round number 30 if i remember correctly when Raj ji decided to stop. So by midnight with two wickets down only me and Arun bhaiya were on track. I was struggling with mine running-walking more frequently and all mine strategies went haywire. Earlier I planned to complete 42 kms in 5hrs but i was able to manage 39 only. At that time i wanted to stop running but bhaiya told me to finish 6hrs run and do 47kms. I tried hard but i was able to finish 46kms only in 5hrs 58 mins. I did mine last one km(47th round) walking and end up with 6hrs 11min for 47km.

I have nothing to feel happy except that extra km i did, mine previous best was 46kms in 5:59 mins. We all stayed at mine place together for some time and then back to our routine jobs....
It was a night with a big half-moon. I enjoyed company of Devinder, Raj ji and Bhaiya.
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My Running history

Actually I don't remember when i started long distance running, there were days when i used to run for 15 mins (around 4-5 years back) just for refreshing myself and that too on road in our society only (D-6 Vasant Kunj). Sometime my roomie Arun Joshi join with me for running, I used to run either in morning or evening and that too not always. But I remember Joshi telling me tales of Shakti Kapoor, Anil Ambani and few other amateur runners, those words from him always encouraged me to run.

And I remember those days, when we have parties and i used to go for a 15-20 min run before that, everybody says u r crazy but its only Joshi who never discourage me.
These short runnings of mine goes on and off for another year or so, then Joshi and Sandhu got married and Joshi went to Hyderabad. I felt alone, i started running for 50-60 mins regularly and now I start liking it, for me missing a run is like missing something important.

March 2005: I left Amsoft Systems joined Alcatel development India, I never thought of increasing the distance, for me 10k is fine and i keep on doing mine same distance until Shailendra (My team leader) inspired me to run a marathon. I start looking for marathons, and i increase mine distance from 10 to 12-14k and started cycling as well.

In another few days I found Hutch announced their first ever half marathon in delhi, It seems they did this just for me. I registered there and run mine first half marathon(october 2005) in 2hrs 8min without much effort. then I run Mumbai half (jan 2006) in 1hrs 55min, delhi international half marathon(feb 2006) in 1hr 50min. After races i started following mine regular routine of 10k daily and sometime 21K on weekend. But In 2006 I completed mine hutch half in 2hrs 4min far below mine best, may be because of not running fit at the time of race.

24K is my max limit until i met another Arun in mine life, and this time its ARUN BHARDWAJ only ultra runner who has represented our country in many ultra running competition. He stays very near to mine place, I know GOD has sent him to help me only. He is the one who told me that there is no maximum limit to running. He is the one who encouraged me to start this blog. I enjoyed running and discussions with Bhaiyya (Arun Bhardwaj), but I still miss other Arun (Arun Joshi) he is in Japan these days with his wife(Seema bhabhi) and little Anika.