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Mawana Sugars Indian Open Marathon 2010 Results

February 8, 2010

Deep Chand of Rajputana Rifles won the Men’s marathon at the Mawana Sugars Indian Open Marathon in a time of 2:22:33. The Women’s marathon was won by Shukanya Mall in 2:59:58. About 5,000 runners took part in the various runs. The route for the marathon was the same as that for the upcoming Commonwealth Games [...]

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Mawana Sugars Indian Open Marathon 2010 on Feb 7th

January 6, 2010

This marathon, which started off in Delhi as the Rath Marathon in 1982, and recently had a rebirth in the form of Mawana Sugars Indian Open Marathon, will be held on Feb 7th, 2010. The last couple of years, the route they have used has been advertised as the proposed route for the Commonwealth Games 2010 Marathon [...]

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Big names for Delhi Half Marathon 2009

October 8, 2009

Organizers of ADHM have lined up some big stars for the 2009 event. This includes the complete podium from the last years event which saw an amazing performance with all the top 3 runners finishing under 1 hour mark, and Deriba Merga of Ethiopia running the fastest time of the year in 59:15.
Last years podium [...]

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Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2009 Route Map

October 2, 2009

Yesterday, I received the acceptance letter from the event organizers of the Delhi Half Marathon (both email as well as the paper), and also the event booklet with details like the route map, start time, and other arrangements for the race day. Since I was a “really” quick registrant, I got a running number of [...]

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Shah Rukh Khan to run at Delhi Half Marathon?

September 30, 2009

Now this is some breaking news about the king of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan, coming to Sadi Dilli for running at the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon on Nov 1st!
The actor, who is a Delhite himself, is euphoric over the idea of running with Delhi for the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in November. Shah Rukh was [...]

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2nd Delhi Runners Half Marathon on Sep 20th

September 18, 2009

The second edition of the group run for the Delhi Runners group will take place on September 20th at Nehru Park, Chanakyapuri. The first edition saw about 35 runners run various distances upto the half marathon on Aug 29th, and while that event was inside the park, this one will be on the road outside, [...]

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Top 20 Running Routes in Delhi NCR

September 6, 2009

I did a poll recently on our running group Delhi Runners about the favorite running routes of the members. This was done with the intent of deciding the prospective locations to hold the monthly Delhi Runners Half Marathon runs, the first of which happened recently in Nehru Park, Chanakyapuri. In this post, let me share the results of [...]

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ADHM 2009 Press Conference and Event Launch

August 28, 2009

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 Cafe [...]

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Airtel Delhi Half Marathon 2009 Registration Open!

August 26, 2009

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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As ADHM 2009 approaches, Delhi gets running!

August 18, 2009

It is just about 10 days to go for the launch of the 5th Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in the media. The event launch is to take place on August 27th, and the run is on Nov 1st. The registrations to the event will start immediately after the event launch.
Keeping up with the spirit of [...]

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