Indian ultrarunner plans to attempt Bob Graham Road

Jeevendra Singh, an Indian ultrarunner based in the United Kingdom, is planning to attempt the Bob Graham Road, a fell running challenge in England’s Lake District, next month.

Runners are required to cover the round in 24 hours, traversing through 42 fells (hills) covering a distance of 106 kilometres with 27,000 feet of elevation.

Jeevendra hopes to be the first Indian to attempt and complete it.

His journey will be filmed in a documentary titled, To Cumbria with Love.

The filmmakers, Summit Fever Media (Matt Green and Ellie Green), are doing a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for the film.

Here is the link to the campaign https://summitfevermedia.myshopify.com/

Team chosen for IAU 100 km World Championship Bengaluru

The Athletics Federation of India has chosen the team of ultrarunners to represent the country at the IAU 100 km World Championship.

The championship will be held on December 7 at Bengaluru.

Nine men and two women ultrarunners have been chosen for the event.

Male runners include Vipul Kumar, Amar Singh Devanda, Saurav Kumar Ranjan, Binay Sah, Rupesh Rathod, Velu Perumal, Gorkha Ram, Rohit Singh and Devarao Choudhari.

Shashi Mehta and Jyoti Gawate will represent women.

(The author, Latha Venkatraman, is an independent journalist based in Mumbai)