insights

Every runner has a story

Member spotlights and training guides, written from inside the club — insulin to finish lines, hospital beds to ultra marathons, playgrounds to podiums.

Santosh Verma · President

What Santosh Verma Says About Running — and Why It's Really About Life

It started as one question — "Can I run 5 kilometres without stopping?" Today 30 km a week is the baseline, and the lessons reach far beyond the road.

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Gurushankar Mohan · General Secretary

It Was Never Just the Miles

From over 110 kg to 73 kg, through three surgeries and an autoimmune diagnosis — and the part most transformation stories skip: you cannot out-train a bad diet.

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Ponniselvan K · Vice President

The Coach You Already Have

Twelve hours. One stadium track. 199 laps. 81.59 kilometres from dusk until dawn — and a lesson no training plan or sports watch could have taught.

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Dinesh Angappan · Joint Secretary

From Insulin to Finish Lines

76 kg to 98 kg in six months, then a Type 2 diabetes diagnosis and insulin therapy in 2009. A 90-minute struggle through a 5-mile charity walk became the turning point.

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Ashok S · Treasurer

The Cost of Lightness

6 kg cut in 10 days before a marathon, a tibia fractured mid-race, nine months of forced rest — and the neuromuscular armour he rebuilt himself with.

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Venugopal · Member

From Breathless to Boundless

After the second COVID wave his cholesterol spiked to dangerous heights. His doctor offered a challenge instead of a prescription — it ended in a 56 km ultra.

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Preethi · Member

From Playgrounds to Podiums

Between packed lunchboxes, office deadlines and a son who never runs out of energy, she kept showing up — and ended up on the podium.

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Ananth Sornalingam · Member

Ten Years, One Finish Line at a Time

Ten-plus years, from 10Ks to a 50 km ultra, across road, hill and off-road ground — and a runner's code earned the hard way.

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Dr. R. Vijay Anand · Member

Running Beyond the Finish Line

A 3:59 am alarm in 2012, 5 km every single day, 21 km every Sunday — a lecturer whose students learn as much from his lifestyle as his lectures.

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S. Raja · Member

Discipline in Uniform, Discipline on the Road

Armoured Corps veteran, UN peacekeeper, bodybuilder, podium finisher — discipline carried seamlessly from the battlefield to the finish line.

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Chanchal · Member

Strength Meets Stamina

A gym regular with years of strength training behind her — and the first 5K that proved her limits weren't as fixed as they seemed.

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Ramsinh Jadav · Member

Consistency, Discipline, and Showing Up

Operations leader by day, endurance athlete by dawn — the discipline driving both comes from exactly the same place.

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Prasanna · EC Member

What Prasanna Says About Beginning, Believing, and Never Stopping

She joined in November 2023 without any plan to become a runner — she simply wanted to be part of something positive. What she found changed how she looks at fitness, consistency, and herself.

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Udiya Lakshmi · Yoga Instructor

What Udiya Lakshmi Says About Finding Running Through Yoga

Running was not her cup of tea — yoga was her comfort zone. Then the 10-Day Challenge reshaped everything, and running became a moving meditation.

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training guides

Learn the craft

Not a member story this time — the club's own how-to material on training, written for every level.

Training Guide

Know Your Run Types

LSD, tempo, intervals, fartlek, hill repeats and more — what each session is for, and how to run it well.

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