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58 years old, Mysuru based Ajit Thandur is a multi-faceted fitness enthusiast who has been into endurance running since 2008. A Property Developer by profession, Ajit was always into some aspect of fitness by regularly swimming, hitting the gym and doing short 5K runs. The running bug hit him after he completed his first 21K […]

Mumbai based Paediatrician Dr Ajit Oak is certainly an inspiration for ultra runners. The year 2018 will see Ajit running the Comrades marathon in South Africa, for a mind-blowing 8th year in a row. Starting off with a modest 7K run at SCMM in 2004, he quickly progressed to his first half & full marathon

Divya is a Quality Auditor/Director and started running about 5 years ago with a 10k event, to begin with. In about 3 and a half years of time from then, she had run a distance of 100K. The journey from then for her till now includes about 10 Ultra events, plenty of Half and Full

Meet the well-known Ultrarunning couple Suma Sampath and her husband Sampath Iyengar from Bangalore, who will be running the OOTYULTRA on the 29-Apr-2018. A corporate trainer and an executive coach by profession, Sampath’s job involves regular travelling, long hours of standing and giving classes. In spite of this, he religiously commits 10-12 hours of weekly

Gurmeet Soni is an accomplished endurance runner with nearly a decade of running several half and full marathons. Gurmeet is a Bangalore based Pediatric Doctor and a trained Allergist who took to running in 2009 with a 10K run at the Sunfeast World 10k event in Bangalore. After a few half-marathon events she graduated to

Bangalore based Upendra Tripathi is a relative newcomer to the world of running starting his running career only 2.5 years ago. An Engineer by profession, he had always been a regular “gym” person with a keen interest in fitness and got drawn into running by his friends. Being a certified wildlife photographer, he opted for

A voracious runner, Balaji has already experienced the high of completing the Comrades Marathon in 2017. A self-employed professional who runs with the Mogappair Fitness Circle (MFC) chapter of the Chennai Runners, Balaji started running only a few years ago, with his first 10Km event in the summer of 2014.  A little over a year