An account of a 400km ride cov­er­ing Bangalore-Vellore-Bangalore in 26 hours and some­thing min­utes, as a part of the Ban­ga­lore Brevets. My cycling jour­ney con­tin­ues and gets more inter­est­ing as the years go by (at least for me). At times, I wish I’d started ear­lier in life (I wasted a lot of good years!), but […]

I still remem­ber the show we watched dur­ing a trip to Ker­ala last year. It was at Thekkady, while we were out explor­ing, when we saw a sign say­ing adver­tis­ing a Kalari per­for­mance in the evening. We decided to ven­ture in. Kalar­i­pay­attu is derived from the words Kalari — which means “place, thresh­ing floor, or […]

The sec­ond edi­tion of Girls on the Run (we had the first one last year) organ­ised by Run­ner Girls India was held on March 28, 2010. The GOTR is a series of run­ning events and the aim is to increase their fre­quency. This time around we had Decathlon, Kalenji Club, Forum Value Mall and OnMo­bile as […]

A few days ago, a cyclist was turned away from the Leela Hotel’s main gate to a side park­ing lot on the road. He was there to attend a con­fer­ence when his “hum­ble” cycle did not pass the “high secu­rity stan­dards” of the hotel. He refused, of course, (even I would!) the secu­rity guard’s suggestion […]

Day 3: Has­san to Madik­eri A day filled with scenic routes but a lot of climbs and pretty tir­ing too in the end. It turned out to be a long day for me. The best part was early on when we had the Gorur dam stretch opened up for us to cycle on — around […]

On Sun­day, 25 Octo­ber 2009, join a bunch of us for Bangalore’s first women’s only run­ning event — brought to you by Run­ner­GirlsIn­dia (RGI)! Come and run or walk with us! This Girls on the Run event is part­nered with YLG Salon and Spa; each par­tic­i­pant will receive a YLG Gift Voucher too. We would love […]

Our des­ti­na­tion: Nandi Hills, located about 60 km north of Ban­ga­lore and about 4800 ft above sea level. On top was Tipu Sultan’s sum­mer retreat and the remains of Tipu’s fort still remain. Tipu’s Drop, a 600 metre high cliff face, where pris­on­ers were hurled down the precipice when the king was really angry. Not […]

900 km, 8 days, 1 ride: TFN 09 Yippee!