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For about the first five years of my running life I was a 3 hour plus runner in each successive SCMM. It is only when I started reading and filling myself with knowledge about running that I slowly started improving, to the current PB of 2:18. Even if you have a good coach, he...

Running is a nascent sport in our country. For the sport to grow, we need a body of knowledge that is pertinent to our circumstances. Being in its infancy, there exists very little by way of local learnings. YouTooCanRun believes that rectifying this situation is much needed. Our...

Milind Soman is known to the lay public as a supermodel. Runners know him as someone who holds the Limca book of records title for running between Ahmedabad and Mumbai and also between Delhi and Mumbai. More recently he has taken his passion of running the length and breadth of...

I had the occassion to travel one entire racing weekend with two leading running coaches of our space. One has represented the country in international events & another works with the largest contigent going to Comrades every year. In the 4 hour drive back and forth and the 2...

Are you in the R.A.T. Race? – 4 If there is one single Mantra in which the Hindu way of life is captured,  it is the Mantra of “ Lokah Samastah Sukhino Bhavantu” ( Let all beings in the Universe be happy and free of sufferings ) While  the above thought is indeed very...

If you walk through any market area of our major towns and cities a certain oddity may strike you. There are a large number of medical stores. In fact in my area there are more Chemists and Druggists than there are Grocery stores. This oddity almost leads one to think that we...

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....

Most runners from India have read ‘Born to Run’ by Chris McDougall and wondered about the nutritionally beneficial effects of Chia seeds after reading about its magical properties there. The text in the book has extolled the almost magical properties of Iskiate a...

Last Saturday Savio, one of India’s most acknowledged International marathoners and a coach to so many seasoned veterans took the sweat rate study himself along with his many runners. He clocked in at 1.20 ltrs and in so many decades of running he had never known what his...