The Silk Route Ultra Trail - 2025
SRUT Narkanda - A Race I Won Beyond the Podium Why SRUT? I signed up for the Silk Route Ultra Trail (SRUT) not for a podium or a medal. I signed up to test myself — to see how far my training, consistency, and nutrition could take me when the terrain turned tough. Earlier that year, I’d committed to a more structured way of showing up — not just on the trail, but in the kitchen, in recovery, in how I fuelled and trained. I had been putting in the work quietly for months, and SRUT felt like the perfect place to bring it all together. Yes, I had done high-altitude before, but SRUT was on a different scale. Snow, long climbs, unpredictable weather… and long hours of solitude. I didn’t sign up for glory. I signed up for proof — that what I was doing mattered, that I was on the right path, and that I could carry my body and mind through something bigger. “When you train in silence, the trail becomes your report card.” And so I went — not to conquer the mountains, but to meet the versio...