Get Off Your Arse: A ran-dumb blog to get you moving, by a bit of a nudge and a bit of a push.
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.
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.
55 kms at 10th edition of La Ultra - The High
If you’ve risked your life by running a full marathon(s) in gas-chambers of modern cities of ‘civilised’ world, here is your chance to push it a bit further in scenic Ladakh, by running 55 kms over Wari-La, a high mountain pass not yet infested by tourists who can’t differentiate between Goa and Ladakh.
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.
The Ultra Couple
Alex (Germany) & Dunya (Behrain), a couple changed by ultra running.
Dunya and Alex left behind an unhealthy life of well-rounded smokers, and picked up running in 2009 and ultra running in 2014. Now the changed couple are running La Ultra - The High for the second year.
Mark the Monk at La Ultra - The High
Mark is a complete ultra runner having two extreme aspects to him, one that of extremely competitive athlete but on the other a monk of a runner. He's running 333km at La Ultra - The High for the third time.
Grant Maughan (333)
Grant Maughan, an Australian, a seafarer, an ultra-runner, triathlete, surfer & general adventurer, also a participant in 7th edition of La Ultra - The High has come 6th (2016), 9th (2015) and 2nd (2014 & 2013) at Badwater ultra, besides winning the Iditarod Trail Invitational 130 mile race which qualifies him for 350 mile race next year.