FIELD NOTES
Everything worth knowing before your first bell — training, tactics, and the stories the yards leave behind. Read, then go run.
Pune Chapter — last one standing
Umesh Kumar Shukla is the last one standing at the Pune Chapter. He came home from the final yard in […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 24
Seven o’clock, and twenty-four hours are done. The morning came in gently: a smooth breeze, the haze lifting off the […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 23
Six o’clock. Bibs 7 (Soma Jagan Mohan Reddy) and 10 (Umesh Kumar Shukla) came home together at 53:43, 6 minutes […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 22
Five o’clock, and the three became two. Bib 6 (Laishram Singh), “Larry” on the backyard circuit, went out for his […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 21
Four o’clock. Twenty-one hours in, and it has been the same three for five loops now — nobody has fallen […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 20
Three o’clock, twenty hours in. Three runners keep trading the same hour with the clock: Bib 6 (Laishram Singh) in […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 19
Two o’clock. The same three names, the same corral, the same bell — this is the stretch of a backyard […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 18
One o’clock, and the night has settled into its rhythm: bell, corral, loop, back, wait. Bib 6 (Laishram Singh) came […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 17
Three runners answered the midnight bell and all three came home. Bib 6 (Laishram Singh) in at 51:53, Bibs 7 […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 16
Two of the steadiest names on this board are done — but not before one last, nail-biting loop each. Manoj […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 15
Loop 15 will be the one people talk about after tonight. Manoj Sundaram went out, and came home with two […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 14
Loop 14 came home clean — all seven still out there answered the bell, and nobody fell. The tightest return […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 13
Loop 13 took no one — four loops in a row now without a fall. All seven ULTRA runners answered […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 12
Loop 12 took no one, the third loop in a row without a fall. All seven ULTRA runners came home […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 11
Loop 11 took no one again. All seven ULTRA runners came home inside the hour: Bib 1 (Ankit Sharma), Bib […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 10
Loop 10 took no one. Seven ULTRA runners answered the bell and all seven came home inside the hour: Bib […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 9
Loop 9 took two, both with eight yards behind them. Bib 12 (Prashanth Mahadev) did not go out again. Bib […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 8
Bib 802 (Sujata) is the first BY8 finisher: eight yards, the last in 54:09. Bib 814 (Gaurav Yadava) stops one […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 7
Loop 7 took four, all of them on six yards. Bib 14 (Shireesh Anjal) got back in 61 minutes 47 […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 6
Loop 6 took six more. Bib 811 (Mayuresh Shinde) went out on the timeout; Bib 20 (Mukesh Raut) reached the […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 5
Loop 5 thinned the field hard — five fell. Bib 806 (Akshay Chauhan) went out on the timeout. Four chose […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 4
Loop 4 claimed six. Bib 23 (anil jain) and Bib 812 (Namdeo) went out on the timeout. Bib 805 (Maya […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 3
Loop 3 turned hard: four out. Bib 408 (Pruthvij), Bib 405 (Sanjay Rao) and Bib 402 (Biswadip Choudhury) went out […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 2
Loop 2 closes with 41 still on course. Bib 807 (Aparna Prabhudesai) came back inside the hour and then chose […]
Pune Chapter — Loop 1
Loop 1 is in, 42 still on course. Bib 16 (babumoshaii) answered the bell for the last time. Race official […]
drill-pune-2026 — Loop 1
Loop 1 is in. 12 still on course. Still answering the bell: Bib 45, Bib 44, Bib 43.