Is this your first time?

The Mukteshwar Half Marathon was developed to support the Chirag School of Mukteshwar. It was organized by some friends/Anwer's brother. We made the journey to Mukteshwar in hopes of winning some prize money and torturing ourselves on another hilly half marathon course.



We (Anwer, Brent, and I) left Woodstock at 8:45 PM on Friday night. We hopped on a train in Dehradun at 10:55 PM to travel through the night to arrive at Kathgodam at 7 AM. We took a taxi 2.5 hours to reach Mukteshwar. We did all of this to run 21 KM at 2200 meters above sea level.

The drive up to Mukteshwar. It looks a lot like Mussoorie.

The guest house we stayed at was quite lovely.

The Human Hospital was within walking distance.

Another winter line?

The start of the race, which I didn't really know was the start because there was no gun/loud noise. People just started running. I did have some of my Indian mob fear that I might get knocked down, but I made it. Photo: Mukteshwar Marathon

Feeling like a boss because the beginning was all downhill, and look-I'm already passing these walkers! The race drew in a lot of people who had never run a half marathon before and even some people who probably had never run before. You want to run in sandals? No problem ma'am. Photo:MM

Yep, not feeling so awesome anymore. Photo:MM

It was uphill for about 7 Kilometers. Awesome. Photo:MM

3rd Place: Rs. 10,000--not bad. Photo: MM

We ran a marathon at 7:30 AM on Sunday. We left Mukteshwar at 4 PM. Drove two hours back to Kathgodam. We had dinner at Krazy Kitchen. We got on the train at 7:45 PM. We arrived in Dehradun at 4:00 AM on Monday. We drove one hour back to Musoorie. I went to work at 8 AM.