April 29th - May 4th, 2013
By www.runningandliving.com and Banjara Camps and Retreats P. Ltd. “That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle--behold, the Running Man.
Distance running was revered because it was indispensable; it was the way we survived and thrived and spread across the planet. You ran to eat and to avoid being eaten; you ran to find a mate and impress er, and with her you ran off to start a new life together. You had to love running, or you wouldn't live to love anything else. And like everything else we love--everything we sentimentally call our 'passions' and 'desires' it's really an encoded ancestral necessity. We were born to run; we were born because we run. We're all Running People, as the Tarahumara have always known.”
— Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
“If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.”
— Kathrine Switzer, 26.2: Marathon Stories
April 29, 2013: Marathon expo at Banjara Camps and Retreats, Batseri village, Sangla 0900- 1600 hrs
May 1, 2013: 5 km acclimatization run at Kalpa | Time: 10:30 AM | Altitude 9500-9800 ft
May 1, 2013: 10 km acclimatization run at Kalpa | Time: 10:30 AM | Altitude 9500-10000 ft
May 03, 2013: : Half Marathon (21.1 kms) at Batseri Village, Sangla | Time: 6:30 AM | Altitude 9000-10500 ft
May 03, 2013: : Full Marathon (42.2 kms) at Batseri Village, Sangla | Time: 0630 hrs | Altitude: 9000-11300 ft