During most of the last week (a week before the marathon), when people asked me what race I was running, I knew I was in trouble. And when I replied, that I was running the full, they looked confused and covered up by saying, haven’t seen you run much, but yeah, you’ll do it because […]

A decade is a long time. The last one has seen a big paradigm shift for me. As I look ahead, into the unknown, here are the highlights of each year as I grew as a woman, a mother, and an athlete. 2010: Transformation Me taking charge of my life, from coping with things, I […]

previous parts here:   M vs M: Part 1                                 M vs M: Part 2 Mental memory(!) vs Muscle memory. Over coffee, I gave a runner friend my sob story (usual for this season), of how my previous few long runs had […]

My rant about my swimming is fairly well known (along with my hill-o-phobia). Since my Dubai Half IM race in February, I have focused primarily on strength training and swimming. Last week, I did a 2km swim and was pleasantly surprised to find that I was 9 minutes faster than my previous 2km time of […]

5:15 am It was a dark, cool morning, and the loudspeaker was playing “Fix you” and I had goosebumps. It was really happening! Nearly 2000 faaancy bikes were racked up, and then there was mine! 😉 With shaking hands and stomach jitters I filled up my tyres, did some last-minute preparation and then put on […]

It has been a year of firsts. An edgy year. A year that I lived fully outside of my comfort zone, in some other land! And I figure that this is a good way to live… 😉 Firsts this year: Swimming in open water (breast stroke) Learning freestyle (yet WIP) Riding a road bike in […]

The stress of the ride was playing with my mind. 100 km= Over 4 hours of riding. 5 am – 9.15 am at the least. The distance and negotiating traffic on my cleats (just to put it out there- my safe dismount rate off the bike is 50%!) were my primary concerns. So, I woke […]

Post my Goa triathlon in February 2018, I started to learn freestyle. First with a friend, who is a national level swimmer and then with a coach. I had a simple goal…to do a 2km swim, freestyle, in under an hour. That was when I would register for my first half IronMan race. (This is […]

This was to be a landmark weekend. On Saturday a race distance swim, followed by a long bike ride and race distance run on Sunday. This would decide my racing future. After a rest day in Friday I was set for the workout binge. Or so I thought. I woke up on Saturday with a sore […]