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Vicki Nicholson
I run a consultancy firm out of Bangalore that specializes in leadership development.
I’ve been interested in the outdoors and in sport all my life and have been a competitive equestrian, but came into cycling relatively late in life. It was clearly a situation of “much better late than never”, because I have really enjoyed riding some lovely routes in south India and Goa, including routes near Bangalore like the climb up the Nandi Hills, in Coorg, Chikmagalur, Mysore and up to Ooty via the Kalhatty Ghat. I’ve made a few friends among Bangalore’s regular riders and look forward to riding the tour with some of them and meeting new riders from elsewhere in India and the world.
I don’t over-plan my longer rides, but I do try to ride to conserve energy and not burn up too quickly and to manage nutrition and hydration efficiently, but other than that I just like to get out, ride hard and enjoy it!
Vijay C P
…is going to take TfN Eleven one day at a time.
I work as a Senior Systems Analyst at Accenture, I commute to office on Cycle daily commute is around 30 kms, My First long was to Nandi Hills, distance from home – Nandhi Hills – home was around 150 kms.
Shruti Saha
… can now tick off TfN from her list of goals!
I run a hospitality company, with my husband, which currently owns and operates two critically acclaimed, award winning, premier fine dining restaurants in Bangalore – CAPERBERRY and FAVA
Having a super talented husband, two adorable kids and Aioli my cute lab who are the joy of my life at home, the love for the outdoors takes me to running and cycling in the open to stay stress-free and fit.
I was introduced to professional cycling a year back and can’t believe how much I am enjoying it. I have cycled quite a bit in and around Bangalore with friends to have chai and idlis on the way. This will be my first time outside Bangalore in a professionally organized bike tour and I have to say I am really looking forward to it. So TFN 2011 here I come!
I started this year with two personal goals, one was to start running marathons and go on TFN. Close friends know that I have been hallucinating about my cycle rides (in one dream I have also reached Tour De France). I may be a snail rider but have the strength to go all the way.
Look forward to meet people and get inspired
Editor’s note: More power to you, Shruti!
RiteshGoel
It’s your world, I am just cycling through….
After finishing a bachelor’s degree in medicine from Bangalore, I volunteered to serve in the valley of Kashmir with the Indian army.
A maroon beret, I like ogling at the TajMahalat pre-dawn, sleeping with farmers in Punjab, tracking snakes in Agumbe, gliding and diving at high altitude.
Over the last 3 years I have been roaming Kashmir, Agra, Lucknow and Punjab with no clear goal other than to cycle some swell, experience culture and most importantly lend a helping hand. Cycling for me is migrating through PirPanjal with a clan of nomadic Bakharwals, exploring remote Kashmiri valleys along the Line Of Control and finding internal bliss while riding over the crazy mountain roads of J&K.
But what magnetically draws me back to The City of Boiled Beans is my mother’s ravaidli and alookahalwa. With TFN I would like to meet more people, share experiences, travel the peripheries of the South, welcome intimidating looking strangers with warmth, have conversations on the street corner over a cup of chai.
There’s no place like India in the world, where strangers become family with just one smile. I believe the story of our life….in the end is not our life….it is our story.
Cheers to the life on the road!!
Editor’s note: Mesmerizing. TfN is truly a huge cauldron of interesting people coming together and you are just one more example of this, Doctor!
