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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 […]

Seven o’clock, and twenty-four hours are done. The morning came in gently: a smooth breeze, the haze lifting off the […]

Six o’clock. Bibs 7 (Soma Jagan Mohan Reddy) and 10 (Umesh Kumar Shukla) came home together at 53:43, 6 minutes […]

Five o’clock, and the three became two. Bib 6 (Laishram Singh), “Larry” on the backyard circuit, went out for his […]

Four o’clock. Twenty-one hours in, and it has been the same three for five loops now — nobody has fallen […]

Three o’clock, twenty hours in. Three runners keep trading the same hour with the clock: Bib 6 (Laishram Singh) in […]

Two o’clock. The same three names, the same corral, the same bell — this is the stretch of a backyard […]

One o’clock, and the night has settled into its rhythm: bell, corral, loop, back, wait. Bib 6 (Laishram Singh) came […]

Three runners answered the midnight bell and all three came home. Bib 6 (Laishram Singh) in at 51:53, Bibs 7 […]

Two of the steadiest names on this board are done — but not before one last, nail-biting loop each. Manoj […]