Find Your Ultra

Today’s guest is someone who was going to be the first guest on The Find Your Ultra Podcast. But when we started recording in December last year, he was already on his annual ritual of his month-long Vipassana meditation Retreat. I’m talking about Madhur Daga, better known on instagram as The DagaSaga. Madhur is the Managing director of a 700-crore company. He’s an amateur endurance athlete, who c...

Welcome to this special episode with my friend Nishant Bhardwaj. Nishant is so many things: 1. He’s an Ironman Triathlete among the faster ones from India. He’s also the founder & coach at Trifantry 2. He’s also the host of the Trifantry podcast, Senior Corporate leader & a professor at SPJain college 3. He’s also a Tedx & Keynote speaker & soon to be Author. Nishant came over to D...

Welcome back to the show, you guys! In today’s episode you’re about to meet one of my favorite guests ever. You’re about to meet Susan Hunt. Susan is an Australian, living in Delhi for the last 15 years. She took to endurance sports way back, and finished an Ironman Triathlon in 1991, in about 12.5hrs. She has run multiple ultra distance runs including the MDS, She has done some serious adventure...

Welcome back to the Find your ultra podcast. Today’s guest is Lt Col. Romil Barthwal, who’s an army veteran. He’s an endurance athlete, a top one at that. He has qualified for the coveted Boston marathon, he has run La ultra 111 and made the non-ladakh category course record, he has covered a 185kms in a 24-hour stadium run, he has completed a Half iron distance triathlon, and he has been to the t...

Wishing you a very happy new year and a warm welcome to the Find Your Ultra Podcast, the 2024 season! 🧡 Let’s begin the year by talking about one of the most important yet most overlooked aspects of our health - ‘Sleep’. Sleep is one of the most essential aspects of our daily life. It’s simple to understand as we all agree that we need sleep, it’s complicated as we disagree on how much we need. I...

Aakash Nambiar is a barefoot runner from the beautiful state of Kerala. Aakash is super passionate about traveling and running. He combines the two wherever he goes. He carries his Insta 360 camera, and documents his experiences on instagram, where he can be found by the name ‘barefootmallu’. Since the pandemic, he has travelled to and worked from numerous places including Kashmir, Manali, Meghala...

Today’s guest barely needs an introduction as she’s been out and about in the fitness scene over over a decade. A Successful Entrepreneur, a marathoner, a community leader, a role model for many, and she’s a mother to her two beautiful dogs.  I’m talking about Reeti Sahai. Reeti is the first and as far as we know the only woman from Uttarakhand to run all the world major marathons and to have earn...

ब्रेस्ट कैंसर का विषय इतना महत्वपूर्ण है कि हमने इंगलिश और हिन्दी दोनों भाषाओं में इसके बारे में बात की! इस episode में आप जानेंगे ब्रेस्ट कैंसर के लक्षण क्या हैं जो हम सबको मालूम होने चाहिये, साथ ही सुनेंगे क्यूँ पुरुषों का इस बातचीत में शामिल होना बहुत ज़रूरी है, और क्या कदम हमें उठाने हैं इस podcast के ख़त्म होते ही! अगर आप जागरूकता लाने में हमारी मदद करेंगे तो आप जानें बचाने में मदद करेंगे! इस...

Hello there, #Ultratribe and #Yuvians. We have some thrilling news to share with you all. The "Find Your Ultra" podcast is venturing into the world of video content! Head over to youtube for the video. Links at the end. This podcast episode features a conversation with Purnima Bist, who leads the breast cancer program at the Yuvraj Singh Foundation (YouWeCan). This nonprofit organization...

Episode 31 brings you a conversation with my long time friend Tarun Walecha.  Tarun holds a degree in architecture from Manipal institute of Technology, and a Post graduate diploma in Environment planning and a project management course from IIT Tarun is a seasoned runner who’s been running for nearly a decade and a half and has built a couple of amazing communities of fitness lovers by the name ‘...

#Episode30 Since I’ve been exposed to the health and fitness scene over the last few years, I find myself paying close attention to everything I see during my visit to a hospital, which is often to see someone known to me. I’ve noticed If we set aside genetic conditions, and accidents, pretty much everything else is life-style related in some manner or the other. Even if lifestyle doesn’t directly...

Human body is a masterpiece crafted by nature over millions of years, equipped with a remarkable and intricate system of muscles, joints, and bones all designed to work in harmony for one fundamental purpose - Movement. But In our fast-paced, technology-driven world, It's no secret that our sedentary lifestyles have become the norm. Many of us spend hours each day sitting at desks, hunched over sc...

Second installment of our catch-up series where we share life updates, our own fitness (or the lack of it) updates, and life in general. We also dive in to some of the updates from the Indian ultra running scene including the national team announced by the Athletics Federation of India for 24-hour world championships later this year. We discuss selection of some of our friends, and some race speci...

Sometimes, some people come into your life in the most unexpected ways and they have a remarkably positive impact on you. Keshav is a friend of mine who helped me conceive this podcast that you listen to and you’ve told me that you like. He was the one who helped me narrow down my thoughts, come up with a specific idea that I could begin with. He also taught me the softwares, the editing - everyth...

Welcome to episode 26.  At the beginning of this year, I promised my friend and podcast mentor Keshav that I will just focus on releasing 52 episodes in this year, do as good a job as I’m capable of doing with those, and until we’ve done the amount of work, I will keep out that negative voice in my head telling me that I’m doing a shitty job, or that I’m wasting people’s time, or this isn’t up to...

Episode 25 Ladies and Gentlemen. You’re meeting Tanya Agarwal.  A lot of you already know Tanya very well. How do I know that? Well, you’ve been asking me to bring her on the show. So here she is.  For a few of you who might not be familiar, Tanya is runner, a blogger, a mother of two, a traveler, a Yoga practitioner, a GMAT teacher and not the least of all, a writer - Tanya runs a very popular bl...

Episode 24 ladies and gentlemen.  You’re about to listen to a Spanish guy in his 50s living in India for over two decades. Isn’t that interesting already? I can’t wait! He has not only embraced the Indian culture and food but also the potholes of Delhi roads, the ridiculous AQIs and sweltering heat of Delhi, - all for the love of running. We’re talking about Alfredo Miranda, popularly knowns as Al...

Hello and welcome to Episode 23 Today we’re talking about Money.  I think the biggest catastrophe of our times was that our parents, I mean Indian parents in particular advised us to save. Save Save Save.  Saving doesn’t appeal to many people because sounds so defensive, One day you might need it. Investing on the other hand has a hold different ring to it. It’s a game. It has a purpose, it’s a sk...

Hello hello hello! Welcome back! How are you? I love to see you here!  We missed the episode last Friday, which was disastrous coz I Never wanted to EVER miss an episode, but things happen. And we have to learn to embrace them and move on. Today’s episode is one of the most awaited episodes on this podcast. I’m presenting to you a heart to heart with my dear friend Binay Sah.  Bharat ki running co...

We all have stories we tell ourselves. We have reasons for why we do, and don’t do things, we try to make sense of the good and bad that happens to us, and we also have narratives for why we can and can’t do things. We work with stories, our brains like stories and narratives because they help us make sense of the world. But narratives can go wrong - for one, they’re not always grounded in truth,...

Episode 20 is about the journey of your host who recently ended his streak of running 531 days in a row. Listen to this short episode to hear a couple of lessons learnt along the way. #Newepisodealert #Findyourultra #Podcast #RunningStreak #500daysofrunning #runningeveryday #consistency #Lifelessons

Super excited to share with you the launch of a new mini-series on the find your ultra podcast with my pal Biplab Mukherjee. I’ve mentioned before that we’re just two regular individuals striving to learn and get better everyday and our life journeys are on a similar trajectory which is why we have so much to share with each other. And now, we intend to widen our close circle and include YOU in th...

Thank you for tuning in to another episode of the find your ultra podcast.  This is Episode 18 and we’re about to hear from one of India’s top athletes - Dr Hemant singh Beniwal. In the Indian endurance circuit, He’s known for his speed but there’s so much more to him. He’s a trained psychologist, a running coach, a family man, and an entrepreneur- Him and his cofounder Vikas Malik (who’s also a f...

On the first day of 2020, I was on a trek with my friends Milind, Ankita, and Sarthak. We had climbed Mount Takao, in Japan and when we got down from the trek, we were amazed to see that People were washing the soles of their shoes with a brush and some running water to ensure they don’t carry the dirt of the trail into the city. We were zapped, and making videos of them doing something that was r...

Welcome to episode 16. This episode is about understanding our digestive health. There is a whole universe of microorganisms that live within our gut, they feed off the food that we eat and they release a bunch of chemicals that impact pretty much all aspects of our health from digestion, to immunity, to cognitive function, and even affect the way we age.  There seems to be a consensus on the fact...