Want to run but don’t know how to start? Or perhaps you already have been running for a while but now want to increase your pace and stamina?

Help is at hand with training programs devised by Dr Rajat Chauhan of Back2Fitness and Santhosh P.

Details of the running programs are here.

This initiative was started to fill the vacuum of holistic running training programs for all, from beginners to very elite. Their goal is to provide you professional and expert help in getting you to the finish line injury free and help you reach your potential. While providing this to you within the bigger Runner’s High community, they make sure that personal attention to your well being is not lost.

The team has a vast experience in
1. Running
2. Coaching
3. Sports & Exercise Medicine (injury prevention & management)
4. Fitness for running

Dr Rajat Chauhan is an MBBS, MSc Sports & Exercise Medicine and one of the very few Musculo-Skeletal Medicine specialists in India. He also has about 24 years of running experience. Santhosh is a part of Team Asha in Bangalore and an avid runner, his longest distance being 160 kms at the Bangalore Ultra in 2008. You can find out more about him here.

Many runners have already benifited from the program with personal best timings at the Mumbai and the Auroville marathons.

For more details you can get in touch with drrajatchauhan at gmail.com or visit this link.

The Tour of Nilgiris is a 7 day, 919 km bicycle ride across the famed Nilgiri mountain range in South India. The Tour of Nilgiris takes off from Bangalore on 25 December 2008 and ends on 1 January 2009. As the name suggests, it is a tour and not a race. 

There are around 40 participants and do visit this page to get an idea about the background of these interesting (and daring!) folks! To ride for 919 kms will definitely be a feat of sorts. The places are already full up (they had 40 places) but you can do your bit and support the cause in different ways as listed on their site. 

An excerpt of one of the profiles: “Dattatreya Pandit Patil, 37, is a grape farmer and passionate cyclist from Sangli. He believes cycling is good for health, good for the environment and good for national integrity and peace! And it is not empty talk. He has been running a district cycling association for more than a decade in Sangli where he trains children of ten years and above for state and national-level competition.”

Currently, they have the following sponsors:
Official Accessory Partner: Wildcraft
Official Radio Partner: Radio Indigo 91.9FM
Official Medical Assistance Partner: Manipal Hospital
Official Print Partner: Time Out Bengaluru

Do support them and spread the word around!

- Celebrations of the 6th International Jawa Yezdi Day on 13th July at Cubbon Park, Bangalore at 7am

The International Jawa CZ Yezdi Day is an annual celebration of those 250 cc Jawa & Yezdi bikes that were sold in India from 1960 to 1997. They are popular for their reliability and low maintenance costs. They were manufactured at the Ideal Jawa factory in Mysore.

To commemorate the 6th International Jawa-Yezdi Day, the Jawa – Yezdi Club of Bangalore is organizing a rally. The following is the route: Cubbon Park – MG Rd – Brigade Rd – Richmond Circle – Lalbagh – Corporation Circle – Mysore Rd – Chennapattana Coffee Day and back

Get-together at 7.00am
Flag Off at 8.00am (Sharp)

For more info, pls contact: Lokesh-9880033994; Sam-99451 44774; Brian-9886101005

A walk / run event is being organised in Bangalore to encourage the citizens of Bangalore to become more physically active. It’s to get physically inactive people, kids, to housewives, to IT professionals to CEOs to elderly to any and everyone.

Come ONE come ALL. It’s only if you feel good, do you look good. So, what are you waiting for?

The details of the run are below:
Come Run The 5 km
Sunday
April, 13th 2008
Start: 8 am
Regsitration: 7:30 am
Venue: JP Park, Mathikere, Bangalore 54
More: RunWalkIndia

Target Audience: one and all… couch potatoes to crawlers to joggers to
sprinters. Get your kids along or your lazy ok half.

Be a part of the revolution.

Last Saturday, I drove down to Eagleton golf resort with a friend who was playing
in the Mercedes Trophy. I just went along for the photo-op and my camera did the rest.
Can’t believe I shot these pictures :)

While the big boys went out to play, I spent all my time with these beauties
that were on special display.

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As ICC Cricket World cup – 2007 starts I wish Indian team will come back with the world cup. Indian team need to prepare for the worst and expect the best.

Come on, India.

In the mood of Bundh many forgot an prestigious sports event which started in the city from yesterday,” Sony Ericsson International” earlier known as “WTA Bangalore Open” has been scheduled from 13-18 Feb 2007 @ KSLTA in Cubbon Park, Bangalore.

So Tennis lovers why you are waiting? Mark your presence for the event!

Details of Match schedules, Ticket info etc… available here

Bangalore’s list of gifts to the world would sound incomplete, without one of the greatest sportsman of our country Prakash Padukone. To come from a cricket crazy country, which turns a blind eye towards any sports apart from cricket and achieve so much in the field of badminton is no mean achievement.

Known as the ‘Gentle Tiger’, he was won the London Masters Open, Swedish Open, Denmark Open and All England Open. If am not wrong, winning the All England Open is equivalent to winning the Wimbledon in tennis.
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I have bored my friends to death with this, but the recent theatrics around cricket make me go again.

The Dream

It is about a dream I have. Come back home at 7 pm after a tiring day at work. Turn on the TV. Skip those Saas Bahu things to go straight to the sports channel I love – call it Neo for now (for it stands a chance!). My team, Bengalooru Hoysalas takes the field. The Hoysalas have 30 million strong fans backing it. Sheer numbers and economics mean that some players I’d pay to watch – Kevin Pietersen and Chris Gayle – play to please me. The match starts at 7 sharp. Its a variant of 20-20, and I don’t mind staying up till 11 to watch all of it. Today, the Hoysalas play Mumbai Bulls, and I relish the prospect of seeing Kumble-Tendulkar and Munaf-Pietersen rivalries renew tonite.
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Did you see how Wasim Jaffer got out in the fourth SA ODI? Ball outside off stump, Jaffer aimed to push it square. Feet weren’t close to line of the ball, that meant the bat couldn’t have been straight. Don’t worry, these shots are common in ODIs, the bat was about 75 degrees to the ground when he swung it. Now, if the pitch was to be a regular Indian one, Jaffer would have middled the ball. But the place being SA, the ball bounced higher. As the bat wasn’t swung straight, that resulted in an edge. Caught in the slips, and out.

We have seen endless number of Indian batsmen get out in that fashion on tours to Aus and SA. And I have seen Aus and SA batsmen treating these same balls with similar shots to perfection.
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