The pandemic may have put the brakes on our way of living temporarily, but we are getting into gear once again. A trio opened throttle recently, running an ultra marathon from Pune to Mumbai, a punishing distance of 161 kms. An ultra marathon is any distance over the traditional marathon distance of 42 km. Murlikrishnan Pillai, Satnam Singh and Sushil Sharma from Pune ran almost four times the marathon distance, in their Pune-to-Mumbai feat.

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Pillai said, “We wanted to do an inter-city run for quite a while. As restrictions eased slightly, we started our training in earnest.” The Pune-to-Mumbai Ultra Marathon run, an event created by the runners themselves, started on October 23 at 12 am from Shaniwarwada in Pune, and the three ultra marathoners reached Mumbai’s Gateway of India 36.5 hours later.