Welcome to the inaugural edition of Berlin Dilli Mein Marathon.
Parking, Start and Finish
Indo-African Friendship Rose 🌹 Garden 🪴 parking next to Embassy of Ghana on Satya Marg
Route
We start from from the park, heading left on Satya Marg, and then for details of the route, click on the link below.
From @UnSplash
Categories
1 Loop 🔂: 10.68 kms
2 loops 🔁 : 21.36 kms
3 loops 🔁 : 32.04 kms
4 loops 🔁 : 42.72 kms
If you want to do more less distance, please go for it.
Start time
From @UnSplash
Start time: 4:44 am
(not 4:43, not 4:45)
If this isn’t good enough for you
We understand that there is a good reason that you want to run in Lutyen’s Delhi. You expect things a certain way. We can definitely customise the conditions as per your requirement but for that you’ll need to make an effort too. If you want cooler temperatures, you can start earlier, or fly to Leh. It’s 18°C right now as compared to 34°C in Delhi. Humidity is also only 35% as compared to Delhi’s 66%. Mussoorie is an option too with 19°C but there humidity is 99%.
Trophies, medals and certificates
From @UnSplash
As for trophies 🏆, medals🎖& certificates, best is to recycle ♻️ them from your previous races. If you’ve never done anything worthwhile in life, get your kid’s trophies, medals or certificates. Paste a sticker on top to customise them & make them BDMM specific.
Aid Stations
From @UnSplash
We’ll definitely have aid stations with whatever you all want. They will be within your cars. Feel free to use them. If you don’t get something that you want, you’ll know who to blame. Because we’ll not bother getting anything for you at all.
Event t-shirts and shorts
There will be event t-shirts & shorts 🩳 too. They’ll be the ones you’ll come wearing. Again, they’ll not be from us.
Medical
From @UnSplash
If you get injured 🤕, don’t worry, I’m a Sports-Exercise Medicine doctor specialising in running injuries. Just that I’ll be running too & wouldn’t really address your injuries. I’ll definitely be there to give you all the moral support you need. Over last decades of being a quack, I’ve come to realise that psychology plays a really big role in treating injuries.
Expectations
I want you folks to really enjoy yourselves at BDMM. Over the years, specially in last 7 years, I’ve learnt that the recipe for happiness in this life is to have rock bottom expectations. So please have no expectations from us.
La Ultra - The High connect
There are tons of people who can’t get to our race in Ladakh either because of time issues or think that we are too expensive. Being a hardcore Dilli-wallah myself, I totally understand. It is difficult to come to terms to paying for the quality service we all so desire, so we decided to come up with Berlin Dilli Mein Marathon. La Ultra - The High has nothing whatsoever to do with BDMM. Come to think of it, you owe us a couple of lakhs each for giving you a Berlin Marathon experience in Dilli itself.
My German connect
I was heading a German rehab facility (Keiser Training) in London for over 2 years. You might say that I am as boring as the Germans, but I am as efficient too. And I never mince my words too. I was born here in India, but when it comes to punctuality, I am nothing like our country men, the proud late comers. So get your royal backsides to the start line on time.
Franchisee Request
From @UnSplash
We understand that there is a lot of interest for this. Please feel free to reach out to me if you are interested.
Registration
You seriously want me to waste more of my precious time on you! Just bloody show up at 4:30 am on 26th September 2021.
WhatsApp Group
Keep miling and smiling.
Kar Ke Dekhein!