This was the 2nd edition of the Hyderabad Marathon and Half Marathon. And from whatever reviews I found about this event, a very well organized one too. The organizers are themselves very passionate runners, and this comes out in every aspect on how the run is organized, every small detail taken care of, the route, [...]
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Yesterday, I had an opportunity to attend the launch event of the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2009. The event was held at Le Meridien Hotel and as expected, it was full of people from the media, people from marketing and PR, the key stakeholders in the event, and the various sponsors. Photo: Artists from Drum [...]
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Running And Living was started by Rahul Verghese in 2008, setting up base in Gurgaon. Having worked with corporates like Unilever, Nestle and Motorola in the US, Rahul switched gears and decided to take up promoting running in India as his full time job. Within a short span of less than two years, this group [...]
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Just got the breaking news on the registrations opening up for the Delhi Half marathon from a friend at Delhi Runners, and believe me, I was really surprised beyond my wits on hearing this news. Since the press conference for the event launch is tomorrow (i.e. Aug 27th), I was expecting the Delhi Half Marathon [...]
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In the second post on the series ‘Running in India‘ we take a look at a passionate group of runners from Chennai, who, without any formal setup, went beyond promoting running in Chennai. This was a movement which spread from person to person, and its really caught fire! Here’s their story… It was just another [...]
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This is the first post in the series on following the development of Running in India, or rather ‘organized’ running. This post focuses on a passionate running group from Bangalore – Runners for Life, which has set a benchmark for developing a great running community, a running culture, and set up highest standards in organizing running related [...]
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Runners for Life, Bangalore, organized the 2nd edition of this hugely successful event of a different kind on Aug 22nd. Urban Stampede is a corporate relay run, where different company teams face off against each other for the title of the “Fastest running corporate team” in the country. Each teams is of 4 persons with [...]
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As results come in from the Womens marathon at the World Athletics Championships at Berlin, it looks like China has come out on tops overall with some great finishes to take up the team world cup, while Japan and Russia came second and third respectively. It was Xue Bai who won the event, with a [...]
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Results/updates from the live blog at berlin.iaaf.org Abel Kirui wins the World Championship marathon in 2:06:55, a Championship record. Here comes Mutai, silver in 2:07:48. Here comes Kebede for the bronze. Kebede 2:08:35. Tsegay just seven seconds back for fourth. Yes, it looks like Cheruiyot for fifth. Here he comes: 2:10:46. Sixth will be a [...]
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Tanvir Kazmi is a passionate runner and has been blogging about marathon running, sharing news and updates, since 2005 ... read more »
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