insights

Every runner has a story

Member spotlights and training guides, written from inside the club — insulin to finish lines, hospital beds to ultra marathons, playgrounds to podiums.

Santosh Verma · President

What Santosh Verma Says About Running — and Why It's Really About Life

From "Can I run 5 kilometres without stopping?" to 30K weeks as a baseline — ten lessons every runner will recognize.

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Gurushankar Mohan · General Secretary

It Was Never Just the Miles

From 110 kg to 73 kg, through a devastating accident and back — and the lesson most transformation stories skip: you can't out-train a bad diet.

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Ponniselvan K · Vice President

The Coach You Already Have

Twelve hours. One stadium track. 81.59 kilometres from dusk until dawn — and the lesson no training plan could teach.

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Dinesh Angappan · Joint Secretary

From Insulin to Finish Lines

Diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes and starting insulin therapy in 2009 — a 90-minute struggle through a 5-mile charity walk became the turning point of a life.

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Ashok S · Treasurer

The Cost of Lightness

A crash diet before a marathon, a tibia fractured mid-race, nine months of forced rest — and the rebuild that followed.

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Venugopal · Member

From Breathless to Boundless

After COVID left every breath a battle and cholesterol spiked dangerously, a doctor offered a challenge instead of a lifetime of medication. He listened.

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Preethi · Member

From Playgrounds to Podiums

Between lunchboxes, deadlines and a son who never runs out of energy — the quiet discipline that carried Preethi to a podium finish.

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Ananth Sornalingam · Member

Ten Years, One Finish Line at a Time

A decade across every distance — 10Ks to a 50 km ultra — and a runner's code earned through injuries, recoveries and hundreds of disciplined choices.

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MWC Runners Club · Training Guide

Know Your Run Types

LSD, tempo, intervals, fartlek, hill repeats and more — what each session is for, and how to run it well.

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