Tale of the run by muscleontherun

When in Bangalore, you are really left aghast looking for the long trails that can quench your thirst for your unbounded love for trail running. The Karnataka trek booking website is good to book your treks well in advance but the chaos of the crowd on these trails can turn you off if you are looking to clock your trails but these can definitely be a cool down or a recovery hike or for that matter a dose of strength training that can do wonders for your road running. I can personally vouch for this. Options that you are left with? The one and only Bangalore Mountain Festival by Festival Adventures. Event website https://mfadventures.in/bmf/ With Vagamon making me do a 60km instead of heartfully willing 33km, jumping into a long distance category run too soon was a NO for me. The running calendar was devised most interestedly towards a few UTMB runs and focus on mileage and most importantly strength and mobility was all time high. I am looking forward to inculcate th...

So the day I see the post from Vagamon Ultra letting know that travel and accommodation had a vacancy https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1cVFrKIkke/?igsh=eDR1N242MzJwNGQ3 I excused myself from daily chores to drop in a email to the team to enquire about entry to available category at the event. The 60km was available, but I was of thought of doing a 30k instead and aim at a luke warm start. Gave it a thought and only criteria I considered to sign up the 60k category was that this race contributed towards the UTMB index https://utmb.world/utmb-index/races/9497.vagamonultrail60k.2022 https://utmb.world/ So to begin with, the goals had to be clear. This as indeed going to be a training run. I aim the UTMB 100k Australia and all the prior events set the foundation and boost the confidence within to what? Ofcourse, bell the cat 😺 by half yearly.  Having run the event in past, the drive from Bangalore to Vagamon could be tiresome. Hence chose...

Party peeps at the BIB collection , Dinesh Heda leading the pack as always to commit the ultimate crime.  Reza's HM debut event Just another 10k under Rach's belt and the delightful Sangho's another day at Office. And that is how you owe your life an year ending special to your much loved passion of running and even glad when you have your dear ones signed up for some good company and motivation. This couldn't have been better without them for sure and gives you every right to sign up for your next big what.  Hands down, the 20 miler fame hits you different and also happens to give you that much needed boost to graduate to a marathon distance. This is the perfect stepping stone in terms of distance goal that I see being introduced at events now. The ladder to 5km to 10km to 21km to 32km to a marathon gets a well versed reputation without having to break you down half way when you attempt marathon distance witho...