Strengthening your leg and core muscles is crucial to run a marathon successfully says Rediff.com staffer Laxmi Negi who is training to run her first full marathon on January 19.
Dharmendra's demise means the loss of one of the biggest icons ever in the Hindi film firmament.
Fitness expert Leena Mogre shares tips on how to prepare for the Mumbai Marathon by building your speed endurance.
Kenya's long-distance runner John Ekiru Kelai said the weather would play an important role in the Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon on Sunday.
Deepa Katrodia is the winner of Bangalore Ultra Marathon. Last year in November, she completed the 75 km run in 11 hours and 15 minutes. For a housewife and a mother of a special child, this is no mean task. On January 19, Deepa Katrodia will run the Mumbai Marathon. This is her fascinating story:
The amount was handed over to Maharashtra Governor S M Krishna at a function by event partner Give India.
Follow these techniques to avoid injuries and enjoy your first run.
With the Mumbai Marathon around the corner on January 17, here are a few things you should keep in mind a day before, during and right after the race.
Fitness expert Leena Mogre shares tips on how to prepare for the marathon by building your lower body muscle endurance.
'Instead of one or two families controlling 10% to 15% of GDP, it has to be broad based. Then, the resilience of the economy also will be higher.' 'Then, if something happens to one business, it will not hurt the economy badly.'
As part of an ongoing series, fitness expert Leena Mogre shares tips on how to work out your lower body before preparing for a marathon run.
Partially paralysed but with unbreakable will power and determination, Nihad Panju has beaten the odds to become a fitness freak and is all set to run his 4th Mumbai Marathon on Sunday.
The top ten men's and women's runners are expected for the Jan 18, 2004 event.
With the Mumbai Marathon coming up this Sunday, here are a few tips to follow as the week winds down.
In 242 international appearances, Gambhir scored 10,324 runs at an average of 38.95, with 20 centuries and 63 fifties in 283 innings. He is amongst 14 Indians to have 10,000 international runs.
Three women over 45, who will run the Mumbai Marathon this Sunday, talk about what keeps them going.
With the Mumbai Marathon coming up January 17, here is some nutritional advice for those who will be competing.
Shameem Akthar, yoga acharya trained with the international Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Center, gives you yogic tips and instructs on yogic practices that will help you with your marathon preparation.
With the Mumbai Marathon coming up on the weekend, fitness expert Leena Mogre gives us the final checklist of how to get kitted out and things to carry with you on the big day.
If you've been running a long time and are prepping for the Mumbai Marathon on January 17, here are a few additional tips to keep you going all the way through.
In what was a rather shameful end to an otherwise glorious event, two Indian women athletes were disqualified on grounds that tantamount to cheating at the Mumbai Marathon on Sunday.
With the Mumbai Marathon coming up on January 16, we take a look at just why running is the preferred method of keeping fit for many.
If you've decided that running a marathon is something you would like to do and you have already committed some time to training, you need to avoid these mistakes first-time marathon runners often make.
According to a report, Lt Col Avnish Bajpai had lost his limb in a grenade blast during field firing in Punjab in 2007.
'In my 26 years at Raj Bhavan, working with more than ten governors, I can tell you C P Radhakrishnan Sir stands out.'
Ace long-distance swimmer Aakanksha Mishra of Mumbai is the only Indian female chosen for the prestigious 22nd International Self-Transcendence Swim Marathon, to be held in Zurich, Switzerland, on July 26.
Lata Alimchandani is the first Indian woman over 60 to complete the World Marathon Majors. She's also among the world's elite marathon runners in her age group. But she won't stop running.
Red Square and VDNKh easily rank among the most striking places I've visited -- both for their historical significance and architectural splendour.
My admiration for Russian culture, vision and ambition grew with every step as I clocked the miles, Nitin Sathe tells us after a visit to Moscow and St Petersburg.
Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holmes would visit India for the January 21 Mumbai Marathon.
DC's downfall was marked by unstable opening partnerships, inconsistent middle-order performances, and poor execution in pressure moments-both with bat and ball.
'My two life mantras are prioritisation and compartmentalisation.' 'Prioritisation allows you to put one thing over the other and compartmentalisation to focus on one priority at a time.'
'Mountaineering is never 'easy'. Nothing is in your hands, you have to be prepared. That's the same for life as well.'
Olympic gold medalist and world champion Gabriela Szabo said she is happy to find so many participants running this year in the Mumbai marathon, which has taken distance running to an all new level in a cricket-obsessed nation.
Cheteshwar Pujara elieves that a shift in playing philosophy is the need of the hour for CSK even if it means scoring at a quicker clip.
Why has the shift from ICE to electric slowed down despite initial enthusiasm?
'The country that does most of the visual effects, more than any other country, is India.' 'There are more Indians working on VFX in any major Hollywood film than there are in Indian films.'
