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In this episode of Run with Fitpage, we have the female winner of the World Marathon Challenge 2023 - Deirdre Keane. Vikas and Deirdre talk about her journey to completing and winning the World Marathon Challenge and take you through a day-by-day journey of the incredible event in this episode.

Deirdre Keane is a remarkable nurse practitioner who has achieved the incredible feat of winning the World Marathon Challenge, where she ran 7 marathons on 7 continents in just 7 days. She completed the challenge by running 184 miles in 168 hours with an average timing of 3:49:23 hours. This challenge requires immense physical and logistical preparation, making it a remarkable achievement.

Keane is a highly accomplished nurse practitioner with expertise in oncology, pediatrics, family medicine, critical care, and evidence-based practice. She holds a Doctorate and Master's of Nursing Practice degree from Columbia University and an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, where she focused on Healthcare, Finance, and International Business. In addition to her impressive professional qualifications, she is also an avid distance runner with over 40 marathons and ultras completed. 

About Vikas Singh:
Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better.
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In the World Health Day special episode of Run with Fitpage, we had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Jessica Orchard, a Senior Research Fellow and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellow at the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, the University of Sydney. Vikas and D. Jessica talk all about cardiovascular fitness, and the role of exercise for heart health along with many other important points for runners.

Jessica is the Head of the Sports Cardiology Group and a member of the Scientific Associate Faculty at the Centenary Institute. She is also an Associate Editor at the British Journal of Sports Medicine and a Cardiac Research Fellow at Cricket Australia. Her Ph.D. (University of Sydney) was awarded without emendation in November 2020, for which she received the Peter Bancroft Prize for Research. She also has a Master of Public Health and Bachelor of Economics / Bachelor of Laws (Hons I) all from the University of Sydney. Jessica became a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) in 2019.

Jessica’s research focuses on sports cardiology, cardiac screening and best practice implementation, injury surveillance, and sports injury prevention. She is also interested in the legal and ethical aspects of screening, and how the law can be used to promote health policy objectives. Jessica has published 65+ peer-reviewed papers, with an H index of 24 and 16,800+ citations, including several first-author papers cited in international guidelines. She has authored 8 commissioned reports for elite sports in Australia, which implemented numerous recommendations.

Follow Dr. Orchard on Twitter @jessicajorchard and know more about her work here: bit.ly/3U9qtM8

About Vikas Singh:
Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better.
For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below:
Instagram: @vikas_singhh
LinkedIn: Vikas Singh
Gmail: [email protected]
Twitter: @vikashsingh1010

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In this episode of Run with Fitpage, we have the pleasure of hosting 3 women runners who finished the Tokyo Marathon 2023. These athletes discuss with Vikas, their own running journeys and their experiences with Tokyo Marathon.

About Our Guests:

Reeti Sahai -
Besides being a successful entrepreneur, Reeti is also a finisher of all 6 World Major Marathons, a yogini, a certified functional trainer, an endurance cyclist, a high-altitude mountaineer, and a mother to her 2 beautiful dogs. A passionate sports enthusiast who started her own running community “Run with Reeti” in June 2021. Running is the core of Reeti’s regimen and being the Founder and Captain of #runwithreeti she inspires, motivates, nurtures, and coaches individuals from different age groups and professions across Delhi-NCR. Reeti turns a 6-star finisher by completing Tokyo Marathon 2023.

Follow Reeti on Instagram @thedefaultrunner

Kavitha Reddy -
Kavitha was born and spent her childhood in Anantapur, a small town in Andhra Pradesh.  The daughter of a government school teacher and a homemaker instilled in her the importance of discipline & healthy living exceedingly early in her life. Values that have been in large part responsible for what she is today. Kavitha married early, and by age 27, she was the mother of two. At 39, her children grew independent. She found the time to exercise, to stay active. She initially began running to keep fit. Very soon, it became much more. With Tokyo 2023, she is a 6-star finisher.

Follow Kavitha on Instagram @runningwithkavi

Charmi Mandavia:
Charmi is a successful businesswoman, and a runner based in London. With Tokyo Marathon 2023, Charmi has now completed 5 World Major Marathons. She graduated from the London College of Fashion in 2001.

Follow Charmi on Instagram @charmicreations

About Vikas Singh:
Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale and Reliance before coming up with an idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and help beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better.
For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below:
Instagram: @vikas_singhh
LinkedIn: Vikas Singh
Gmail: [email protected]
Twitter: @vikashsingh1010

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In this episode of Run with Fitpage, we had Mrs. Sangeeta Lalwani, who is the Chairperson of the Jain International Trading Organization(JITO) Ladies Wing. Vikas and Sangeeta talk about the upcoming event: JITO Ahimsa Run, which will be held across 65 cities in India and 23 countries in total.

The Ahimsa Run basically aims at creating awareness around "ahimsa", that is, non-violence. It is an attempt to bring society together, to run or walk together, for the peace of our homes, society, and the world. 

The registrations for this event close on 23rd March at 11:59 PM. To register, visit ahimsarun.com

To know about other events happening in your city, visit Indiarunning.com

About the host
Vikas hosts this weekly podcast and enjoys nerding over-exercise physiology, nutrition, and endurance sport in general.  He aims to get people to get out and 'move'.  When he is not working, he is found running, almost always.  He can be found on nearly all social media channels but Instagram is preferred:)

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Twitter: @vikashsingh1010

Have you ever felt irritated because of the keys ringing in your pockets while running? Or, maybe, sometimes you do not understand if your stride is short or long. In this episode of RunShorts, Vikas will tell you 10 Hacks to run better, more comfortably, injury-free and pain-free. 

About the host
Vikas hosts this weekly podcast and enjoys nerding over-exercise physiology, nutrition, and endurance sport in general.  He aims to get people to get out and 'move'.  When he is not working, he is found running, almost always.  He can be found on nearly all social media channels but Instagram is preferred:)

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LinkedIn: Vikas Singh
Twitter: @vikashsingh1010

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In this episode of Run with Fitpage, we had Dr. Brian Zuleger, who is a Sports Psychology expert. Brian and Vikas talk all about what it takes to train the mind for better performance, and why the mental health of an athlete is important.

Brian is a professor of sport psychology in the School of Kinesiology & Health Sciences at Adams State University where he teaches graduate courses in sport psychology and coaching education as well as a variety of other courses in Kinesiology. He is the graduate program coordinator for the MS in Applied Sport Psychology graduate program. He created this fully online program in 2016 to serve a need in educating applied sport psychology professionals and those working in human performance settings. Brian is also the creator and director of the Joe I. Vigil Center for Human Performance and Coach Education at Adams State University.

Brian worked as the mental performance coach for the Adams State University Cross Country and Track and Field programs from 2014-2019 that have a strong tradition of excellence as evidenced by the 56 national team titles they have won. He assisted in coaching all event groups and provided mental strength training services to the coaches and athletes. Brian has worked with athletes and coaches in a variety of sports from the youth level to the Olympic level.

His research interests are coaching and leadership. Brian is working with the USATF Sport Psychology service delivery team providing coach and athlete education as well as continuing research to support USATF and their mission.

Reach out to Dr. Brian Zuleger:
Website: drzuleger.com
Instagram: @areteperformance
Twitter: @AretePerform

About the host
Vikas hosts this weekly podcast and enjoys nerding over-exercise physiology, nutrition, and endurance sport in general.  He aims to get people to get out and 'move'.  When he is not working, he is found running, almost always.  He can be found on nearly all social media channels but Instagram is preferred:)

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Twitter: @vikashsingh1010

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In this episode of Run with Fitpage, we had the pleasure of hosting the first Indian to get a Green Number in the prestigious Comrades Marathon. Vikas and Satish discuss about Satish's journey from being a chain smoker, to quitting smoking and becoming one of the most respected long-distance runners in the country today.

Satish Gujaran is the founder of RunWithSatish and is also associated as a director with Network Twentyone. His first-ever half marathon in South Africa was a DNF, but, today he has run 29 Ultramarathons, 40+ Marathons, and 35+ Half Marathons in his 18 years of running so far. Satish is the only Indian to complete 11 consecutive Comrades, which is also known as the ULTIMATE HUMAN RACE. He has earned himself Green Number which is the permanent bib number for India. Satish helps runners fulfill the dream of finishing the Comrades marathon. He would help and guide them not only to qualify for the race but also handhold with proper training and pace strategy for the big “C”.

Find Satish on Instagram @satishgujaran.

About the host
Vikas hosts this weekly podcast and enjoys nerding over-exercise physiology, nutrition, and endurance sport in general.  He aims to get people to get out and 'move'.  When he is not working, he is found running, almost always.  He can be found on nearly all social media channels but Instagram is preferred:)

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Twitter: @vikashsingh1010

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In this episode of Run with Fitpage, we had award-winning author and journalist, Christie Aschwanden. Vikas and Christie talk about her running and authoring journey, the love they share for running, the importance of the right content, and a lot more in this conversation.

Christie Aschwanden is the author of 'GOOD TO GO: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn From the Strange Science of Recovery', and co-host of Emerging Form Podcast, a podcast about the creative process. She’s the former lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight and was previously a health columnist for The Washington Post. Christie is a frequent contributor to The New York Times. She’s also been a contributing editor for Runner’s World and a contributing writer for Bicycling. Her work appears in dozens of publications, including Discover, Slate, Consumer Reports,  New Scientist,  More,  Men’s Journal, Mother Jones, NPR.org, Smithsonian, and O, the Oprah Magazine.

Christie was a National Magazine Award finalist in 2011. Other honors she’s received include a Best Article Award (2005) and Outstanding Essay Award (2007) from the American Society of Journalists and Authors, an honorable mention for print journalism from the American Institute of Biological Sciences (2007), the National Association of Science Writers’ 2013 Science in Society Award for Commentary/Opinion, a Sigma Delta Chi Award for Public Service in Magazine Journalism from the Society for Professional Journalists in 2015, an AAAS/Kavli Science Journalism Award and an Information is Beautiful Award in 2016.

Find Christie on her website: christieaschwanden.com
Christie's Instagram: @cragcrest

About the host
Vikas hosts this weekly podcast and enjoys nerding over-exercise physiology, nutrition, and endurance sport in general.  He aims to get people to get out and 'move'.  When he is not working, he is found running, almost always.  He can be found on nearly all social media channels but Instagram is preferred:)

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Twitter: @vikashsingh1010

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In this episode of Run with Fitpage, we had Dr. Shona Halson with us. Professor Shona Halson from ACU’s School of Behavioural and Health Sciences has been a mainstay of Australia’s high-performance sports network. Vikas and Dr. Halson talk all about recovery science and the importance of sleep in this episode.

Dr. Halson was the Head Recovery Physiologist at the Australian Institute of Sport from 2002 to 2018 and has been a part of three Olympic campaigns with the Australian Olympic Committee. Professor Halson was named one of Exercise and Sport Science Australia’s three Female Leaders in Exercise and Sports Science on International Women’s Day 2019. Her research focuses on recovery, fatigue, and sleep and she has published over 130 peer-reviewed articles and multiple book chapters. Shona has a particular interest in maximizing recovery and monitoring and improving sleep in elite athletes. Shona is an Editor for the International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, is co-chair of Exercise and Sport Science Australia’s (ESSA) Research to Practice 2020/2021 Conference, and is a member of ESSA’s Research Committee. Shona also provides consultancy services to the Australian Open Tennis Tournament and Nike as part of the Nike Performance Council and she is a trusted advisor to countless elite teams and athletes both in Australia and internationally.

About the host
Vikas hosts this weekly podcast and enjoys nerding over-exercise physiology, nutrition, and endurance sport in general.  He aims to get people to get out and 'move'.  When he is not working, he is found running, almost always.  He can be found on nearly all social media channels but Instagram is preferred:)

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LinkedIn: Vikas Singh
Twitter: @vikashsingh1010

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In the 108th episode of Run with Fitpage, we had the global ultramarathon legend, Charlie Engle. In this episode, Charlie talks about his love for running, his escape from drug addiction, building a running group in the prison, and much more, with our host Vikas Singh.

Charlie Engle is a global ultra-endurance athlete and founder of the 5.8 Global Adventure Series, one of the most ambitious expeditions in modern history, trekking from the lowest to the highest points on all seven continents. He is also one of the most accomplished ultramarathon runners in the world, completing hundreds of races around the world. His incredible determination and athletic ability were profiled in the film, Running the Sahara, produced and narrated by Matt Damon. The documentary highlighted his historic, record-setting journey across the world’s largest desert, running nearly two marathons a day for 111 consecutive days, for a total of more than 4,500 miles.

Charlie’s memoir, Running Man, (Simon & Schuster) became a bestseller shortly after it was published in 2016. While the book details his inspiring life story, it’s about more than just running. It’s about facing demons, overcoming impossible odds, keeping your sense of humor, and discovering the redemptive power of putting one foot in front of the other, even when you feel like you can’t keep going. Charlie practices yoga and meditation, and therapeutic breathwork, and uses other cutting-edge treatments like cryotherapy, infrared therapy, and hyperbaric therapy to stay sharp and healthy. He’s also been a plant-based athlete for over 20 years.

Find Charlie here:
Website - charlieengle.com
Instagram - @charlieengle

About the host
Vikas hosts this weekly podcast and enjoys nerding over-exercise physiology, nutrition, and endurance sport in general.  He aims to get people to get out and 'move'.  When he is not working, he is found running, almost always.  He can be found on nearly all social media channels but Instagram is preferred:)

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LinkedIn: Vikas Singh
Twitter: @vikashsingh1010

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