Name: Praxy

Nationality: Indian

Profession: Project Management, IT-Software Implementation

Kids: None (may be the only odd one out of the group).

Current city of residence: Untergiesing, Munich

Place of origin: Born in Dehradun, a beautiful city of valleys surrounded by the ‘’queen of hills’’ (as they call it) Mussorrie, North India; but having lived for more than a decade in the capital city, I’m more of, The New Delhi girl.

Places I’ve travelled: Many places in Europe, England, Asia. Still need to discover Africa, Australia and America, Antarctica to cover all the continents.

Sports: Running, yoga, biking, strength workouts and body balancing, hiking, dance workouts, swimming (still a learner).

Focus: Staying fit, active and positive throughout my life. I should be able to run even with my future grandchildren! :) Target for Triathlon, half ironman. Live happy, be happy, spread happiness around.

Favorite discipline:  Biking, long slow adventure runs through new places...getting lost and then discovering new beautiful places .

Recent races: Easter Solo marathon, Olympia night run, Salzburg Half Marathon, Tegernsee Half Marathon, Munich city marathon, many more solo half marathons over the lockdown period 2020 with PRs

P.Rs.: Half Marathon: 2:09; 10k: 55:16; 5k: 27:07

Favorite city to run: The whole Munich city is my hood for running. This was the city where I kicked off my endurance running journey.

Favorite quotes: As Dory says, but I modified a bit, “When life gets you down, do you wanna know what you’ve gotta do?..Just keep running!”

“Get up every morning and tell yourself you can do this.”

“Every morning you are born again, what you do today is what matters the most’’

“Standing alone is far better than standing with people who don’t value you.”

Über Mom Nickname: Praxy (love this being my main name too.