Run with Fitpage

Vikas Singh

This podcast series is built to bring science and research from the endurance sports industry. These may help you learn and implement these in your training, recovery, and nutrition journey. We invite coaches, exercise scientists, researchers, nutritionists, doctors, and inspiring athletes to come and share their knowledge and stories with us. So, whether you're just getting started with running or want to get better at it, this podcast is for you!

  1. EP 256 : How Megha Kishore Went From being a 2:45 Half Marathon to Multiple Podium Finishes

    2d ago

    EP 256 : How Megha Kishore Went From being a 2:45 Half Marathon to Multiple Podium Finishes

    A free office registration for the Airtel Delhi Half Marathon in 2017. A 2:45 finish. Cramps at every kilometre. Medical assistance on the route. And absolutely no intention of ever running again. That was Megha Kishore's introduction to running. In Episode of Run with Fitpage, Vikas Singh sits down with Megha — certified marathon coach, ASICS Delhi Coach, Hyrox Delhi gold medalist, and one of India's most competitive age category runners — for a conversation about what it actually takes to go from a reluctant first-timer to a serial podium finisher while managing a full-time career, a family, and everything else life throws at you. In this episode we covered: How a COVID lockdown in the UK turned a gym-goer into a runner — and why she never looked backTraveling 3 hours every day just to train for 1 hour — and what that kind of obsession actually costsWhat changed when she stopped trying to be perfect at everything — and how that shift unlocked her best performancesHow she trained for Hyrox Delhi in the scorching June heat — doing burpees and lunges on outdoor grass in direct sun — and finished in 1:24:45Why most people get Hyrox completely wrong — the one mistake that sends everyone crashing in the final stationsRunning by feel versus running by heart rate — and why she has never once looked at her watch during a raceWhat she would tell every Indian woman who thinks she does not have enough time, enough energy, or the right age to startAbout Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

    40 min
  2. EP 255 : How India Swept the Podium at the IAU 24-Hour Asia Oceania Championship | Santhosh Padmanabhan, Team Head Coach & Manager

    Jun 4

    EP 255 : How India Swept the Podium at the IAU 24-Hour Asia Oceania Championship | Santhosh Padmanabhan, Team Head Coach & Manager

    India swept gold, silver, and bronze at the IAU 24-Hour Asia Oceania Championship in Japan in 2026 — beating Japan on their home soil with a team total that no Asian country had ever achieved in IAU history. In Episode 256 of Run with Fitpage, Vikas Singh sits down with Santhosh Padmanabhan — Founder of Runner's High and Head Coach & Team Manager of the Indian team at the 2026 IAU 24-Hour Asia Oceania Championships — for a conversation about what it actually takes to build a team that can beat the best in Asia, what the science of 24-hour running looks like in practice, and why everything he learned coaching underprivileged school children in Bengaluru eventually found its way into India's championship-winning ultra running programme. In this episode we covered: How a $100,000 fundraiser for underprivileged children in 2004 turned a VLSI chip engineer into one of India's most respected running coachesWhy Santhosh believes PT class is the most undervalued hour in any Indian school — and how he built a programme that teaches VO2 Max to tribal children using a bucket, a tube, and balloonsHow India went from never winning a championship outside home soil to sweeping gold, silver, and bronze at the IAU 24-Hour Asia Oceania Championship in Japan in 2026Why training for a 24-hour race is fundamentally different from marathon training — and the one mistake almost every Indian ultra runner makesHow Santhosh structures 12-hour day runs, 12-hour night runs, and intervals inside long runs to simulate race-day fatigue without breaking his athletes downWhy he does not believe in sleep breaks during a 24-hour race — and the science behind running through the nightThe team culture he built that made Amar Singh Devanda — now among only 11 people in history to ever cover his distance in 24 hours — run even betterWhat India needs to do to stop being Asia's best and start competing for a world championship medalPadmanabhan — Founder of Runner's High, USATF Level 2 Coach, and the man behind India's national ultra running programme — for a conversation about what it actually takes to coach athletes for 24 hours of continuous running.About Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

    51 min
  3. EP 254 : Discipline, Data, Nutrition, And Running with Joel Eric Pinto, Co - Founder of KNOX studio.

    May 23

    EP 254 : Discipline, Data, Nutrition, And Running with Joel Eric Pinto, Co - Founder of KNOX studio.

    Eighteen years of strength training. No running. And then — a 10K, a half marathon, a full marathon, a 50K, and a 100K — all in under two years. Joel Eric Pinto is not a runner who discovered fitness. He is a fitness person who discovered running. And that distinction matters more than most people realise. In Episode 254 of Run with Fitpage, Vikas Singh sits down with Joel — Co-Founder of Knox Studio and Nack, certified personal trainer, certified nutritionist, Hyrox Worlds Qualifier, and ultramarathoner — for a conversation about what happens when eighteen years of strength training meets running, what longevity-focused fitness actually looks like in practice, and why building a community around fitness might matter more than any race result. In this episode we covered: How a family history of bone degenerative disease sent an inactive engineering student to a gym inside a hospitalWhy Joel spent eighteen years training without ever running — and what that base gave him when he finally didHow he went from struggling to complete two kilometers to finishing a 100K ultramarathonWhat his approach to VO2 Max, Zone 2, and sleep science looked like long before these became mainstream topicsHow a stress fracture and a weak left glute taught him more about running than any training planWhy he believes strength training and sleep matter more than mileage for most recreational runnersWhat building Knox Run Club taught him about what keeps people consistent long after the initial motivation runs outAbout Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

    1h 2m
  4. EP 253 : How To Run A Sub 2:50 Hrs Marathon - Vaibhav Prabhakar

    May 14

    EP 253 : How To Run A Sub 2:50 Hrs Marathon - Vaibhav Prabhakar

    Vaibhav is a runner next door whose story will make you relate with you and inspire you to get out of the door and start running yourself. He was an absolute beginner up until 2021, struggled with Bronchitis and had never run before. Since then, he has come a long way and he is only getting started. Vaibhav spent time in being consistent, stayed disciplined and relentlessly prioritized his fitness. He then debuted in a marathon at Rome in 2025 and got to the finish line in an impressive time of 3:03.  He improvised it in Paris a month later to xxxx. He stayed patient, trained further and clocked an even more impressive finish time of 2:48:50 in 2026 London Marathon. Did you know he cramped at around 29 kms and so he had to cut back on his paces in the remaining 13 kms. If he stays on track, he may very well be running a much faster time in the months and years to come. In this episode we cover: How setbacks from UPSC results and bronchitis did not deter him from getting fitter, and eventually fasterWhy two years of 10 kilometres a day with no watch and no plan built a large aerobic baseHow Vaibhav went from 3:03 at Rome to 2:48 at London in under a yearThe 26-week training block that took him from 60 kilometres a week to 100 to 110 kilometres a weekHow interval sessions with his run club, Clapham Chasers, brought his 5K time from 18:30 to 17:16What went wrong at London — cramping at 28km due to a complete lack of electrolytes — and what he would do differentlyHow a corporate lawyer in London manages to train twice a day while working long hoursWhy discipline, not talent, is the only thing that separates people who achieve from people who do notAbout Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

    44 min
  5. EP 252 : Aditi Pandya’s Journey to Boston Marathon 2026

    May 7

    EP 252 : Aditi Pandya’s Journey to Boston Marathon 2026

    Most runners spend years chasing a Boston Qualifier. Aditi Pandya spent six years not even thinking about it — and then ran 3:22:35 at the 2026 Boston Marathon. In Episode 252 of Run with Fitpage, Vikas Singh sits down with Aditi Pandya — endurance runner and co-founder of Geeks on Feet, to discuss her journey to the Boston Marathon. Aditi started as a hobby jogger in Mumbai who did not know the difference between a half marathon and a full marathon. Her first marathon in 2019 took her 4 hours and 37 minutes. She trained with friends, had no coach, and piled up injuries. Six years, multiple setbacks, a pelvic injury that forced eight months of rehabilitation, and a piriformis niggle that stayed through her Boston preparation — and yet on April 20, 2026, she crossed the Copley Square finish line. Know more about Geeks on Feet - Geeks on Feet In this episode: How roller skating and field hockey led to a running career she never plannedWhy it took six years from running casually to even considering a Boston QualifierThe 13-week training block that built her Boston performance — hills, tempos, strength training, and gut trainingWhy she trained on normal daily trainers and avoided carbon plate shoes in preparation Managing a piriformis injury through Boston training — what she did and what she refused to skipRace day at Boston — the cold, the hills, Heartbreak Hill, and running 42.76km instead of 42.195In-race fueling — every 30 minutes, gel strategy, electrolytes, and the carb numbers behind a 3:22Why food and sleep are not soft habits — they are training variablesWhat she would tell every runner who is dreaming of Boston right nowAbout Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

    51 min
  6. EP - 251 (Hindi Podcast) : A Master Class On Diabetes with Padma Shri Dr Anoop Misra (Chairman of the Fortis-CDOC, N-DOC and Director, Diabetes & Metabolic Diseases, Diabetes Foundation India.

    Apr 30

    EP - 251 (Hindi Podcast) : A Master Class On Diabetes with Padma Shri Dr Anoop Misra (Chairman of the Fortis-CDOC, N-DOC and Director, Diabetes & Metabolic Diseases, Diabetes Foundation India.

    According to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) 2024 data, India has 89.8 million adults living with diabetes. More than any other country in the world. Yet most people still do not understand what diabetes actually is, how it develops, or what they can do to prevent or manage it. This week on Run with Fitpage, Vikas sits down with one of India's foremost authorities on the subject.Dr. Anoop Misra is the Chairman of Fortis C-DOC Centre of Excellence for Diabetes, Metabolic Diseases and Endocrinology in New Delhi, and a former Honorary Physician to the Prime Minister of India. A Padma Shri awardee and recipient of the Dr. B.C. Roy Award — India's highest medical honour — he has spent over 45 years studying what diabetes does to the Indian body and why Indians are uniquely vulnerable to it at lower body weights than the rest of the world. In this episode, the conversation starts from the very beginning — what blood sugar actually is, how insulin works, and why the body moves from healthy to pre-diabetic to diabetic over years without sending obvious signals. Dr. Misra explains why Indians develop diabetes at a BMI of 23 to 25 when Western guidelines only flag risk at 30, and why being slim does not mean being safe. Read more from his research here: Google Scholar Dr. Anoop Misra's Books: Diabetes with Delight (English): AmazonDiabetes Ke Saath Bhi Khushaal Jeevan (Hindi): AmazonIn this episode we covered : → What blood sugar actually is and why the body needs it → How insulin works — and what goes wrong when it stops working → The difference between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, and why insulin is not the enemy → Why weight is the thick tree and blood sugar is just one of its branches → The real cost of ignoring diabetes — from vision loss to kidney failure → Why grip strength is as important as blood pressure and should be treated as a vital sign → How to start managing diabetes or pre-diabetes from today — diet, exercise, and discipline About Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

    54 min
  7. EP 250: Understanding Running Fatigue and How to Manage It - Prof. Philipp Baumert

    Apr 23

    EP 250: Understanding Running Fatigue and How to Manage It - Prof. Philipp Baumert

    In this special milestone episode of Run with Fitpage, we celebrate our 250th episode with an in-depth conversation on one of the most misunderstood aspects of running — fatigue. Joining us is Prof Philipp Baumert, an expert in exercise physiology and injury prevention.  He breaks down the science behind why runners feel tired, why performance drops, and what actually happens inside the body during long runs particularly marathons. From central fatigue (brain-driven) to peripheral fatigue (muscle-level), this episode explores how your body regulates effort, why some runners recover faster than others, and what leads to that dreaded moment of hitting the wall. What You’ll Learn in This Episode • What fatigue really is (beyond just “feeling tired”) • Difference between central, peripheral & mental fatigue • Why runners hit the wall after 30–35 km • How fueling strategy impacts performance • The importance of strength training for runners • How long fatigue actually lasts in the body • Smart ways to recover after a marathon Read more from his research here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PjIJ2ZcAAAAJ&hl=en About Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

    46 min
  8. EP 249 : Barefoot, Backwards & Beyond — The Unconventional Running Journey of Sarthak Malani

    Apr 15

    EP 249 : Barefoot, Backwards & Beyond — The Unconventional Running Journey of Sarthak Malani

    Sarthak Malani is not the runner next door who chases PBs.  Rather, he changes how running is viewed—he runs barefoot and backward. He is much liked by runners in the community and he inspired many others to take up running (backwards).  In this episode, Vikas sits down with Sarthak to discuss what inspired Sarthak to take up running backwards: In this episode, they cover: • How Sarthak transitioned from shoes to barefoot running over 6 to 8 months • Why backward running works, how it gave relief to his runner’s knee, and how he got back to running from 100 metres to over 60 km • Training without a coach, doing back to back long runs, and what actually helped him achieve a 1:29 half marathon • Running in Kenya and what Kenyan athletes taught him about truly slow running • His advice to beginners, fall in love first, ignore social media, and stop comparing and • A moment in Kolkata that reminded him why being able to run at all is the biggest privilege This one will make you want to take your shoes off and just run. About Vikas Singh: Vikas Singh, an MBA from Chicago Booth, worked at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, APGlobale, and Reliance before coming up with the idea of democratizing fitness knowledge and helping beginners get on a fitness journey. Vikas is an avid long-distance runner, building fitpage to help people learn, train, and move better. For more information on Vikas, or to leave any feedback and requests, you can reach out to him via the channels below: Instagram: @vikas_singhh LinkedIn: Vikas Singh Twitter: @vikashsingh101 Subscribe To Our Newsletter For Weekly Nuggets of Knowledge!

    42 min
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This podcast series is built to bring science and research from the endurance sports industry. These may help you learn and implement these in your training, recovery, and nutrition journey. We invite coaches, exercise scientists, researchers, nutritionists, doctors, and inspiring athletes to come and share their knowledge and stories with us. So, whether you're just getting started with running or want to get better at it, this podcast is for you!

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  • Creator
    Vikas Singh
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2026
  • Episodes
    256
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Fitpage India
  • Show Website
    Run with Fitpage

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