Get Off Your Arse: A ran-dumb blog to get you moving, by a bit of a nudge and a bit of a push.
What's happening at La Ultra?
On a regular basis I am bombarded with questions: When is the next La Ultra? Will you have 222, 333 and 555 categories? Will you still keep the shorter versions like 11, 22, 33 and 55? What about 111? What next? I answer all that and more.
Role of Sports and Exercise in Education
I thought I had failed at Ashoka because I wasn’t able to deliver what I had set out to do. But meeting Akshay and Abhinay made me realise that the ripple effect will still be on long after the founding team (Sonam, Kishan & me) of the department of Sports & Exercise at Ashoka University is gone.
The Unsung Heroes of La Ultra
Magic happens when madly passionate folks come along without any vested interest besides the experience of having a time of their lives. Thank you everyone who made the very first edition happen when I had nothing to show for the journey we were to go on.
Dessert before the main course
Most look at a snapshot and think they’ve got it all figured. Here I take you through another journey that was critical in making of La Ultra - The High.
Why The High?
How did La Ultra - The High get started? Everyone looks at a snapshot and wants to judge your whole life. La Ultra - The High didn’t happen overnight and it definitely isn’t just me. We’ll take you on the journey of how it all got started.
If I can't do, I doubt if anyone else ever can
This is a biography of a disgruntled ultra-runner who truly believes that if he can’t do something, than obviously no one else ever can. He just suffers from what is generally the problem with the society at large today. He’s self-righteous but at the same time a nay-sayer, discouraging others to get started or keep moving. Who needs enemies when you are blessed with ‘fraternity friends’ like this.
Do we really know the human limits?
Who decides what we humans are capable of physically achieving? Is it the experts or is it our psychological self? It was amazing to witness ordinary people achieve extraordinary feats at this year’s La Ultra.
Why do anything?
In life you reach a point where you stop feeling... yes feeling anything. No pain, no fear, no anger, no joy, no disgust, no trust or mistrust, no anticipation, no surprise, no sadness, no thirst, no hunger, no depression, no hate, no love, no nothing. But you have to go through all of them and much more, literally to abysmally lows and higher than highest highs to get there. And then you suddenly realise that nothing matters. You and everything else around you is simply insignificant.
La Ultra - The High special podcast
To know all about the 2016 edition of La Ultra - The High, listen to this special edition of Move-Mint running podcast.
Kieren Dsouza
Kieren Dsouza, the name you need to remember in ultra running world.
This kid is going to make India proud in Ultra Running.