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Jayanti Poojari joined the team at YouTooCanRun. Though she was having an atheltic background before, she had never run. She aspired to run the Pinkathon 10K and with about 7 weeks of training she ran the distance at a comfortable speed. Read all about her adventure here. Name :...

I spent the last 3 days at the SCMM Expo and got a very good ground level feel of things.  I thought I will share my summary thoughts on this post. I went there originally to help Amit B Sheth with his stall to sell Tshirts for RUHI but also ended up manning the stall of Rahul S...

    Background The death of Police Constable Subash Tomar in New Delhi in the #DelhiGangRape demonstrations is now almost certainly being attributed to a Cardiac Arrest. Various news media are carrying reports of the cause of death being Cardiac in nature and not...

The winter of 2012 finds Mr Surendra Desadia preparing to run his second Half Marathon. He has started well in time, by the month of Sep and has ramped up his training and mileage quite nicely.  He has been running through the year on the treadmill at Cardiac Rehab and this has...

Are you a new runner and wondering about all this talk of Protein? Here is a simple easy to understand Primer without too much scientific jargon. What is Protein? Protein is a collective name of about 22 amino acids. Of these 9 are considered ‘essential’, which means...

We take pleasure in wishing every runner a Happy Diwali. Diwali is a festival of lights / illumination and symbolically signifies the overthrow of evil by good. For us as runners this signifies the overthrow of our health impairments by acquisition of illuminating knowledge....

As part of our mission ‘To Promote Running for Good Health’ we are constantly looking at ways in which we can either directly or indirectly promote the cause of running. One such opportunity arose recently when we could play a role in indirectly promoting running. The...

Posted on Jan 4th, 2012 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Last week SD did his Stress Echo test. In this test you are strapped with the cardiac electrical sensors to your chest and a 2D ( sonography ) echo is taken of your heart to see how you perform. The treadmill is in the same...

Published on Dec 27, 2011 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ My first concern when SD wanted to be trained was his level of physical fitness…in short his chasis..and how much of beating it could take. We had about 3 months to go..and I knew that about 2-3 weeks would go in...

Posted on Dec 20, 2012 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I have told SD that there are 3 objectives for the SCMM 2012. They are: 1. Complete the distance, 2. On foot and 3. Enjoy the participation He has often come to me and told me the distance that he did on the treadmill and...