Author: Yuvaraj Patil

When in Bangalore, you are really left aghast looking for the long trails that can quench your thirst for your unbounded love for trail running. The Karnataka trek booking website is good to book your treks well in advance but the chaos of the crowd on these trails can turn you off if you are…

So the day I see the post from Vagamon Ultra letting know that travel and accommodation had a vacancy https://www.instagram.com/reel/C1cVFrKIkke/?igsh=eDR1N242MzJwNGQ3 I excused myself from daily chores to drop in a email to the team to enquire about entry to available category at the event. The 60km was available, but I was of thought of doing…

Party peeps at the BIB collection , Dinesh Heda leading the pack as always to commit the ultimate crime.  Reza’s HM debut event Just another 10k under Rach’s belt and the delightful Sangho’s another day at Office. And that is how you owe your life an year ending special to your much loved passion of…

The finish line.. The 20 miler Race route at a glance At first, this doesn’t look pretty to me at all. The obvious reasons are running in loops like a hamster to meet the category distance. I presume that is a drawback of not having exclusive roads that define a marathon. As a result, the…

The Races and the moments that froze in the tales of the run by muscleontherun. Day 1 – 5kms VK/1000m elevation gain Day 2 – 50kms, approx. 2900m elevation gain Day 3 – 13kms , 350m elevation gain  So it was that time of the year when we step out of the country and expand our…

From this  To this  And the tale unfolds here on The night after Patalsu Challenge was indeed restless. Gels consumed could have lead to this but also the upfront task of waking by 3am in the wee hours to be ready for 60km category run start was a worry due to the unpredictable weather conditions.…

This is where it all ended in 2021.. Dnf’d at 100km category by 3 mins.. but who knew this just lead to a new beginning of a lifetime. I am forever in debt to the experiences gained at Solang Sky Ultra 2021-100km category.  Now, the calling had to be answered. Got wiser? Yes and what…

And now this…… Well, this doesn’t happen often or may be has never happened before. The on demand shirt off scenes after finishing ahead of all in the 75km category had its own charms. And bawraybanjaray did everything right in freezing these endlessly cherishable moments. Being associated with Pushkar and his team at many ultra events…

Rains and Run, that’s the scene during the monsoons here in Goa. You don’t stop running, the rains don’t stop pouring. Guess that’s what lead to the birth of Rotary Rain Run. Spending some time in goa, attending events in goa is a go to social experiment when you look forward to acquaint with like…

This event revealed the first ever 100 miler trail run in India and as brutal it can get, this run had a cut off time of 46 hours with intermediate cut off times too. So glad not being a 100 miler participating yet, but definitely would thrive to be one day. I chose to run…

A 46:25 ripper in 2019 and making 44:39 happen is quite a journey to begin with. The shorter runs have become equally stressful when you thrive to always perform your best and conquer those new PRs and provided if all goes well, it ends well. Post the Ultras in 2022, a recovery phase was in…

This wasn’t a run to recover event nor was it meant for the podium (2nd runner up). My inhibitions had to be put to rest knowing how much more work is required to get back healthier and stronger.  Gladly singed up to promote water conservation and offcourse due to a dear friend Sanghamitra, who was…

This is me sitting at the 60km checkpoints and already planning on recuperating. The only mantra that I continued to chant was – Fit First Beast Next, Fit First Beast Next. The Tale of my run, unfolds below…… Being privileged and terrified at the same time is the feeling one can carry before hitting the…

Before you begin to wonder, let me cut the slack and post the website link here that answers a lot of your Watttttttts, Whyyyys and Whenn.. but still keep the your excitement levels high when it comes to your Howwwwww as the journey begins in the frozen land of Leh and yes off-course the lake. …

An apportunity grabbed with both my hands and legs. Marathon distance has not struck me yet but very well up for it. Until then, excelling at shorter distance pace is also a well groomed agenda on my mind. Had all the pleasure and sweet pain of being Half Marathon Pacer at one of the most…

A short stint to begin the year 2023 and restrospect all the learnings from the runs done in 2022 especially when the goal is to make it to UTMB trails events across the globe in the coming years, a step back was necessary. To begin with, I can vouch for Jumping Gorilla trail run to…

Incoming the first ever international ULTRA Trail experience of life and yes, we are at Thailand by UTMB 2022 and here to gun down the peaks in the 100km category that can last upto 30hours. Phew!, The elevation stats are already a worry. But no going back it now, see ya Bangalore and Swadikha Chiang…

First things first, it’s time for me to upgrade my blogging to a different app or rather launch a website that documents all my communications to the outer world. It’s been a bitter hard experience with this app that made me loose my entire blog that took me a week to relive the moments and…

This was unexpected offcourse, not seeing the elite runners around leads to such erratic wins I suppose. Nevertheless, the job has to be done and this was one of the pre-covid runs that had to be done in 100km category before I could head to LAULTRA 111kms.  Since this run was postponed by a onther…