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In this episode of Run with Fitpage, Vikas Singh talks to Addie Bracy, an elite ultrarunner, coach, and sports psychology professional, about the importance of mental training in running and everyday life. Addie shares her journey from competing in Olympic Trials to discovering trail running and ultramarathons, and explains how her approach to running evolved over time. The conversation explores how daily life stressors can affect athletic performance, why self-awareness is important when setting realistic goals, and how runners can develop mental skills to handle challenges and disappointments. Addie also discusses breathing techniques for managing anxiety, the role of journaling in understanding performance patterns, and why setbacks can be valuable opportunities to learn and improve. In this episode we covered: Addie Bracy's journey from track running to trail running and ultramarathonsWhy mental training is important alongside physical training and nutritionHow to set realistic goals and develop self-awarenessHow daily stress and anxiety can affect running performanceBreathing techniques that may help manage stressful momentsHow journaling can help runners understand their mental strengths and challengesHow to handle discomfort, pressure, and setbacks during racesWhy disappointing results can become opportunities to learn and improveHow mental skills developed through running can also help in professional and personal lifeGuest Profile: Addie Bracy is a Mental Performance Expert and a trail runner. Apart from the Olympic Qualifiers, Addie has won three USATF National Championships, and been selected to compete internationally on 10 USA teams. In 2017, she was a scoring member of Team USA's Gold Medal team at the World Championships for mountain running. Over the last ten years, Bracy has worked with athletes at the high school, collegiate, and post-collegiate levels. Addie is also a coach with over ten years, and her training methods include mental training as a significant aspect. Connect with Addie on, Instagram: @addiebracy About Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale and Reliance before coming up with an idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Gmail: [email protected] Twitter: @vikashsingh1010 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

Akshy Sridhar is an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer and marathoner who has completed 18 marathons and run under three hours twice. With a demanding career and years of consistent training, his journey offers valuable insights into improving marathon performance without overcomplicating the process. In this episode of Run With Fitpage, we covered Akshy’s journey from casually jogging during his civil services preparation to completing his first marathon and eventually achieving a sub-3-hour marathon. He shares how he built consistency, adapted his training, and balanced running with the responsibilities of his work. We also discuss his weekly training structure, marathon pacing, nutrition, strength training, recovery, and the importance of enjoying the process rather than focusing only on race timings. In this episode, we covered: Akshy’s journey from casual jogging to marathon runningHow he progressed from a 3:54 marathon to a sub-3 finishBalancing marathon training with the responsibilities of an IAS officerWeekly mileage, easy runs, tempo runs, intervals, and long runsMarathon nutrition, fueling, strength training, and recoveryRace-day pacing and saving energy for the final kilometersThe importance of consistency, self-motivation, and enjoying the processAbout Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

Nine years ago, Camille Herron crossed what she thought was the finish line at the Comrades Marathon, started celebrating, and kept walking, before realizing she still had 200 metres to sprint. It's the story most people know her for. In Episode of Run with Fitpage, Vikas  talks to Camille about her equally interesting life journey, setting ultra distance world records across 50K, 100K, 24 hour, 48 hour and six day formats, Camille traces her path from a shy, largely nonverbal child with a central auditory processing disorder to a valedictorian and gifted program student, and eventually a biomedical researcher who spent twelve years as a bone imaging microscopist while training twice a day. She talks about the autism and ADHD diagnosis she received in her forties, and how reworking her daily schedule in 2015, not her training, was the actual turning point that led to two world titles in a single year. The conversation also covers her marathon career (a 2:37:14 pre super shoe personal best), her decision to leave full time work for professional running in 2019, and the mental frameworks, like eating the elephant one bite at a time and dedicating every race to someone else, that get her through multi day events most runners can't imagine attempting. In this episode we covered: Why Camille stopped short of the finish line at Comrades Marathon and had to sprint the last 200 metres once she realized the race wasn't overGrowing up largely nonverbal until age six or seven due to a central auditory processing disorderBeing "twice exceptional," placed in a gifted program as a child while living with an undiagnosed disabilityGetting diagnosed with autism and ADHD in her forties, and how it explained her lifelong ability to hyperfocusWorking twelve years as a bone imaging microscopist while training twice a day around a full time jobThe 2015 schedule change, evening long runs and a midday run added in, that led to two world titles in one yearFlying home after winning the 2015 100K World Championship and being back at her research job the next MondayMeeting Frank Shorter, who signed her poster "run for stress release," a moment that reframed her runningWhy she left full time employment for professional running in 2019Her "eat the elephant one bite at a time" strategy for surviving multi day racesWhy she dedicates every race to someone else, including the origin of her "Wings for Sophia" tributeHer 2:37:14 marathon best, run before the era of carbon plated super shoesBuilding out her coaching business, Run with Camille, to make elite coaching more globally accessible About Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

While you may have watched my video of pacing well at Satara earlier, this video works as a checklist for you to be race ready - from your home all the way to the finish line.  You will watch in this video: - how to come prepared to Satara - dos and donts while in satara - how to shoe select - what food to carry - how to pace the first 3 kms - when to consume your energy gels - how to avoid cramps and  - how to finish your race well Learn well and race better. Here is your link to the previous video on this race outlining km by km pacing strategy. About Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

Anubhav ran his first Hyderabad Marathon in 2013, finishing in 5 hours 18 minutes. 12 Years later, he returned to the same race and won the open category, finishing in 2 hours 37 minutes. In this episode of Run with Fitpage, Vikas talks to Anubhav about the undulating nature of the course particularly. Anubhav explains why runners should stop chasing a finish time and instead learn to identify their upper limit of effort through the race. He breaks down how to approach the major climbs and downhills, why overstriding can create problems later in the race, and how preemptive walk breaks can sometimes be a smarter strategy than waiting until fatigue forces you to stop. The conversation also covers race-day nutrition and hydration, carbon versus non-carbon shoes, tapering in the final weeks, recovery, and carb loading before race day. This is an episode for everyone running the Hyderabad Marathon this Sunday, and it will be especially helpful for runners looking to understand how to approach the course, manage effort on the climbs and downhills, fuel and hydrate through the race, and stay within their limits for a strong and sustainable race experience. In this episode we covered - 1 - Anubhav's journey from running his first Hyderabad Marathon in 2013 in 5:18 to winning the open category in 2025 in 2:37 2 - Why runners should avoid a fixed finish-time target and instead use training to identify their upper limit of pacing 3 - How to use the early flat section of the Hyderabad Marathon to understand sustainable effort before the climbs begin 4 - Why uphill sections should be run by effort rather than pace, and why runners need to be conservative when the climbs come early 5 - How to approach downhill sections, why overstriding can create mechanical overload, and the importance of training downhill running 6 - Why preemptive walk breaks can be a smart race strategy, rather than waiting until fatigue forces you to stop 7 - How to manage hydration and nutrition around climbs, including adjusting the timing of intake based on the length and intensity of the climb 8 - Carbon versus non-carbon shoes, why carbon shoes are not essential, and why runners should avoid trying untested footwear on race day 9 - How to approach the final days before the race, including tapering, recovery and carbohydrate intake 10 - The importance of knowing your limits, prioritizing health and enjoying the race experience over chasing performance About Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

Hans raj's resting heart rate sits around 47 to 48 in Kashmir. In Ladakh, at over 11,000 feet, it climbs past 70, without him doing anything at all. In this episode of Run with Fitpage, Vikas Singh talks to Hans raj, the winner of Ladakh marathon- 2025 and HM of 2022 and 2023 editions.  Hans raj grew up in Kathua started running after joining the police force, and worked his way from track training into half marathons and eventually full marathons at altitudes most runners never train at, including Gulmarg and Kargil. He talks through what actually happens to the body at extreme altitude, why arriving even nine to ten days before a race was not enough time to adapt, and the pacing mistake that cost him in his first attempt at Ladakh before a more controlled, patient strategy got him onto the podium. The conversation covers hydration and electrolyte balance in dry mountain air, why carb loading needs to be rethought above 11,000 feet, and why he trains and races in exactly the same kit, down to gloves and sleeves, that he has already tested at the same time of day as the actual race. This is an episode with practical tips for anyone planning to race the Ladakh Marathon, or any high altitude event, for the first time. In this episode we covered -  Growing up in Kathua and starting to run after joining the J&K Police in 2016Moving from track and field training into half marathons, and later representing J&K Police at the Ladakh MarathonThe stark difference in resting heart rate between Kashmir and Ladakh, and what that signals about how hard the body is working at altitudeWhy arriving only nine to ten days before the Ladakh Marathon was not enough time to acclimatize, in two separate attemptsThe training mistake of pushing a hard session too early after arriving at altitude, and how it affected his raceTraining for full marathons at high altitude spots in Kashmir like Gulmarg, and later basing himself in Kargil ahead of a race in LadakhHis recommendation that runners coming from sea level allow three weeks, ideally a month, to acclimatize before racing in LadakhThe pacing strategy of starting deliberately conservative rather than matching local Ladakh runners early, which helped him finish on the podiumWhy heart rate, not pace, should guide effort at altitude, since normal race paces do not hold upManaging hydration and electrolytes in dry mountain air, including the risk of both dehydration and overhydrationWhy he avoids trying any new food or water at altitude, and instead carries familiar meals and packaged water from homeTesting race day clothing and warm up routines in training sessions timed to match the actual race start, given how sharply the weather changes through the morningAbout Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

Sandeep is a marathoner, a fitness enthusiast and Head of the Reliance Combat K9 Unit (RCCU) at Vantara. His fitness journey began at an early age, shaped by his father’s Army background, outdoor sports and NCC. What started as a passion for staying fit eventually evolved into a serious pursuit of marathon running. In 2023, Sandeep began following a more structured approach to running and training. Since then, he has achieved a 3:13 finish at the Tata Mumbai Marathon and taken on the Comrades Marathon, while continuing to manage a demanding professional role and lead a team working with K9s. His journey offers a practical perspective on discipline, consistency and making time for fitness despite a busy schedule. In this episode, we covered: Sandeep’s early fitness journey, sports and NCCHis transition from running for fitness to structured marathon trainingBalancing a demanding career with running and fitnessHis 3:13 finish at the Tata Mumbai Marathon and his experience at the Comrades MarathonTraining, mileage, strength work and recoveryThe importance of self-motivation, discipline and consistencySetting priorities and managing distractionsPushing beyond your comfort zone and staying committed to your goalsAbout Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

In this episode, we discuss specific nutrition needs of the body while training for a marathon. Be it the macros, vitamins or supplements, we break it down day by day with none other than Kira Sutherland, Sports Nutritionist of the TCS Sydney Marathon. We talk about: - how to fuel for easy runs - ⁠what to eat before, during and after a long run - ⁠what blood tests to do to identify supplemental needs - ⁠what should be in your recovery drink - ⁠what is the right way to consume an energy gel About Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

He hit the wall at his first Mumbai Marathon in 2013. Walked the last 10 kilometers. Finished in 4:02. And came home thinking — I can do better. Thirteen years later, Vijayraghavan Venugopal — known as ViRa — has run sub-3 thirteen times, completed all six World Marathon Majors, and clocked a personal best of 2:47:17 at Cape Town in 2026. In Episode 257 of Run with Fitpage, Vikas sits down with ViRa for a detailed conversation about what it actually takes to go from a 4:02 first-timer to one of India's most consistent sub-3 marathon runners over 13 years of learning, failing, and coming back stronger. In this episode we covered: ➝ Growing up in Kerala in the golden era of Indian athletics — and why cricket became his sport when football and athletics felt out of reach ➝ His first marathon at Mumbai 2013 — the wall at Haji Ali, the walk home, and the one decision that changed everything ➝ How he went from 4:02 to 3:31 in five months using a single book — Run Less Run Faster ➝ The only marathon he ever won — Spice Coast 2015 — and why a police escort to the finish line changed what he believed was possible ➝ Paris 2016 — how he broke sub-3 for the first time without even planning to ➝ New York 2019 — buying a Vaporfly three days before the race to compensate for a lack of confidence — and what happened next ➝ The L4-L5 disc extrusion that almost ended his running — and the six-month rebuild that followed ➝ What 20 days in Kenya in 2023 taught him about running that 10 years of training could not ➝ How he restructured everything after 2022 — strength training, easy runs, mileage, sleep, nutrition — and why the results finally showed up in 2024 and 2025 ➝ Four marathons in 14 months at 50 — London, New York, Mumbai, Cape Town — and what comes next About Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

A free office registration for the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in 2017. A 2:45 finish. Cramps at every kilometre. Medical assistance on the route. And absolutely no intention of ever running again. That was Megha Kishore's introduction to running. In Episode of Run with Fitpage, Vikas Singh sits down with Megha — certified marathon coach, ASICS Delhi Coach, Hyrox Delhi gold medalist, and one of India's most competitive age category runners — for a conversation about what it actually takes to go from a reluctant first-timer to a serial podium finisher while managing a full-time career, a family, and everything else life throws at you. In this episode we covered: How a COVID lockdown in the UK turned a gym-goer into a runner — and why she never looked backTraveling 3 hours every day just to train for 1 hour — and what that kind of obsession actually costsWhat changed when she stopped trying to be perfect at everything — and how that shift unlocked her best performancesHow she trained for Hyrox Delhi in the scorching June heat — doing burpees and lunges on outdoor grass in direct sun — and finished in 1:24:45Why most people get Hyrox completely wrong — the one mistake that sends everyone crashing in the final stationsRunning by feel versus running by heart rate — and why she has never once looked at her watch during a raceWhat she would tell every Indian woman who thinks she does not have enough time, enough energy, or the right age to startAbout Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

India swept gold, silver, and bronze at the IAU 24-Hour Asia Oceania Championship in Japan in 2026 — beating Japan on their home soil with a team total that no Asian country had ever achieved in IAU history. In Episode 256 of Run with Fitpage, Vikas Singh sits down with Santhosh Padmanabhan — Founder of Runner's High and Head Coach & Team Manager of the Indian team at the 2026 IAU 24-Hour Asia Oceania Championships — for a conversation about what it actually takes to build a team that can beat the best in Asia, what the science of 24-hour running looks like in practice, and why everything he learned coaching underprivileged school children in Bengaluru eventually found its way into India's championship-winning ultra running programme. In this episode we covered: How a $100,000 fundraiser for underprivileged children in 2004 turned a VLSI chip engineer into one of India's most respected running coachesWhy Santhosh believes PT class is the most undervalued hour in any Indian school — and how he built a programme that teaches VO2 Max to tribal children using a bucket, a tube, and balloonsHow India went from never winning a championship outside home soil to sweeping gold, silver, and bronze at the IAU 24-Hour Asia Oceania Championship in Japan in 2026Why training for a 24-hour race is fundamentally different from marathon training — and the one mistake almost every Indian ultra runner makesHow Santhosh structures 12-hour day runs, 12-hour night runs, and intervals inside long runs to simulate race-day fatigue without breaking his athletes downWhy he does not believe in sleep breaks during a 24-hour race — and the science behind running through the nightThe team culture he built that made Amar Singh Devanda — now among only 11 people in history to ever cover his distance in 24 hours — run even betterWhat India needs to do to stop being Asia's best and start competing for a world championship medalPadmanabhan — Founder of Runner's High, USATF Level 2 Coach, and the man behind India's national ultra running programme — for a conversation about what it actually takes to coach athletes for 24 hours of continuous running.About Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

Eighteen years of strength training. No running. And then — a 10K, a half marathon, a full marathon, a 50K, and a 100K — all in under two years. Joel Eric Pinto is not a runner who discovered fitness. He is a fitness person who discovered running. And that distinction matters more than most people realise. In Episode 254 of Run with Fitpage, Vikas Singh sits down with Joel — Co-Founder of Knox Studio and Nack, certified personal trainer, certified nutritionist, Hyrox Worlds Qualifier, and ultramarathoner — for a conversation about what happens when eighteen years of strength training meets running, what longevity-focused fitness actually looks like in practice, and why building a community around fitness might matter more than any race result. In this episode we covered: How a family history of bone degenerative disease sent an inactive engineering student to a gym inside a hospitalWhy Joel spent eighteen years training without ever running — and what that base gave him when he finally didHow he went from struggling to complete two kilometers to finishing a 100K ultramarathonWhat his approach to VO2 Max, Zone 2, and sleep science looked like long before these became mainstream topicsHow a stress fracture and a weak left glute taught him more about running than any training planWhy he believes strength training and sleep matter more than mileage for most recreational runnersWhat building Knox Run Club taught him about what keeps people consistent long after the initial motivation runs outAbout Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

Vaibhav is a runner next door whose story will make you relate with you and inspire you to get out of the door and start running yourself. He was an absolute beginner up until 2021, struggled with Bronchitis and had never run before. Since then, he has come a long way and he is only getting started. Vaibhav spent time in being consistent, stayed disciplined and relentlessly prioritized his fitness. He then debuted in a marathon at Rome in 2025 and got to the finish line in an impressive time of 3:03.  He improvised it in Paris a month later to xxxx. He stayed patient, trained further and clocked an even more impressive finish time of 2:48:50 in 2026 London Marathon. Did you know he cramped at around 29 kms and so he had to cut back on his paces in the remaining 13 kms. If he stays on track, he may very well be running a much faster time in the months and years to come. In this episode we cover: How setbacks from UPSC results and bronchitis did not deter him from getting fitter, and eventually fasterWhy two years of 10 kilometres a day with no watch and no plan built a large aerobic baseHow Vaibhav went from 3:03 at Rome to 2:48 at London in under a yearThe 26-week training block that took him from 60 kilometres a week to 100 to 110 kilometres a weekHow interval sessions with his run club, Clapham Chasers, brought his 5K time from 18:30 to 17:16What went wrong at London — cramping at 28km due to a complete lack of electrolytes — and what he would do differentlyHow a corporate lawyer in London manages to train twice a day while working long hoursWhy discipline, not talent, is the only thing that separates people who achieve from people who do notAbout Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

Most runners spend years chasing a Boston Qualifier. Aditi Pandya spent six years not even thinking about it — and then ran 3:22:35 at the 2026 Boston Marathon. In Episode 252 of Run with Fitpage, Vikas Singh sits down with Aditi Pandya — endurance runner and co-founder of Geeks on Feet, to discuss her journey to the Boston Marathon. Aditi started as a hobby jogger in Mumbai who did not know the difference between a half marathon and a full marathon. Her first marathon in 2019 took her 4 hours and 37 minutes. She trained with friends, had no coach, and piled up injuries. Six years, multiple setbacks, a pelvic injury that forced eight months of rehabilitation, and a piriformis niggle that stayed through her Boston preparation — and yet on April 20, 2026, she crossed the Copley Square finish line. Know more about Geeks on Feet - Geeks on Feet In this episode: How roller skating and field hockey led to a running career she never plannedWhy it took six years from running casually to even considering a Boston QualifierThe 13-week training block that built her Boston performance — hills, tempos, strength training, and gut trainingWhy she trained on normal daily trainers and avoided carbon plate shoes in preparation Managing a piriformis injury through Boston training — what she did and what she refused to skipRace day at Boston — the cold, the hills, Heartbreak Hill, and running 42.76km instead of 42.195In-race fueling — every 30 minutes, gel strategy, electrolytes, and the carb numbers behind a 3:22Why food and sleep are not soft habits — they are training variablesWhat she would tell every runner who is dreaming of Boston right nowAbout Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) 2024 data, India has 89.8 million adults living with diabetes. More than any other country in the world. Yet most people still do not understand what diabetes actually is, how it develops, or what they can do to prevent or manage it. This week on Run with Fitpage, Vikas sits down with one of India's foremost authorities on the subject.Dr. Anoop Misra is the Chairman of Fortis C-DOC Centre of Excellence for Diabetes, Metabolic Diseases and Endocrinology in New Delhi, and a former Honorary Physician to the Prime Minister of India. A Padma Shri awardee and recipient of the Dr. B.C. Roy Award — India's highest medical honour — he has spent over 45 years studying what diabetes does to the Indian body and why Indians are uniquely vulnerable to it at lower body weights than the rest of the world. In this episode, the conversation starts from the very beginning — what blood sugar actually is, how insulin works, and why the body moves from healthy to pre-diabetic to diabetic over years without sending obvious signals. Dr. Misra explains why Indians develop diabetes at a BMI of 23 to 25 when Western guidelines only flag risk at 30, and why being slim does not mean being safe. Read more from his research here: Google Scholar Dr. Anoop Misra's Books: Diabetes with Delight (English): AmazonDiabetes Ke Saath Bhi Khushaal Jeevan (Hindi): AmazonIn this episode we covered : → What blood sugar actually is and why the body needs it → How insulin works — and what goes wrong when it stops working → The difference between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, and why insulin is not the enemy → Why weight is the thick tree and blood sugar is just one of its branches → The real cost of ignoring diabetes — from vision loss to kidney failure → Why grip strength is as important as blood pressure and should be treated as a vital sign → How to start managing diabetes or pre-diabetes from today — diet, exercise, and discipline About Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!