Get Off Your Arse: A ran-dumb blog to get you moving, by a bit of a nudge and a bit of a push.

If I can't do, I doubt if anyone else ever can
La Ultra - The High Rajat Chauhan La Ultra - The High Rajat Chauhan

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.

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55 kms at 10th edition of La Ultra - The High
Rajat Chauhan Rajat Chauhan

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.

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Why do anything?
La Ultra - The High Rajat Chauhan La Ultra - The High Rajat Chauhan

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.

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The Ultra Couple
La Ultra - The High Rajat Chauhan La Ultra - The High Rajat Chauhan

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.

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Genesis of La Ultra - The High
La Ultra - The High Rajat Chauhan La Ultra - The High Rajat Chauhan

Genesis of La Ultra - The High

Khirki to Leh... it needs to start somewhere, with someone. Thanks a million miles to all who believed in my crazy idea when there was nothing to show for it. The journey started in July of 2010. Now La Ultra - The High is a name to reckon with in Ultra running world globally. 

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