Aakash Nambiar is a barefoot runner from the beautiful state of Kerala.

Aakash is super passionate about traveling and running. He combines the two wherever he goes. He carries his Insta 360 camera, and documents his experiences on instagram, where he can be found by the name ‘barefootmallu’.

Since the pandemic, he has travelled to and worked from numerous places including Kashmir, Manali, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Bangalore, Spain, Portugal and a few more.

And wherever he has been, he has done a few long runs. For examples, he ran from

Abu dhabi to Dubai, 

Madrid to Toledo in Spain

Peniche to Lisbon in Portugal 

And he has done most of the LLRs that I’ve done. For those who don’t know, LLR stands for Last long run of the year. It’s a tradition we’ve followed for many years. We end the year running from one beautiful city to another and celebrate the year at a beautiful destination but not before we’ve done two back to back ultras distance runs. More on LLRs in a future episode perhaps.

This conversation though is a catchup with Aakash as he just came back from Kashmir, where he did a bunch of runs with the Indian army. 

You’ll also hear us talk about Vaughan town- a program we’ve both done, if you haven’t heard of it, it’s a super interesting concept you should look forward to learning about.

And last but not the least, you’ll also hear us discuss our individual experiences of running on foreign soil.

Without further ado, let’s hear from the man himself. Here’s Aakash Nambiar and Me In the find your ultra podcast episode 35. Indulge away!