Charan Singh racing the Cognizant New Delhi Marathon 2026 at night, bib 4158

Distance runner · Chandigarh, IN

Everything you need is already inside.

Middle-distance runner and product designer. I train out of Chandigarh and altitude camps in Kenya, chasing times that scare me.

Punjab State Athletics Championship/2023 & 2024, 1500m state champion

This site runs on my cadence: 164.2 spm, 34 sessions. Every transition you have seen lasted one footfall.

Chasing

Targets, not times on the board yet · building toward LA 2028

5K

sub-14:00

Target

10K

sub-29:00

Target

Half

sub-1:03

Target

Marathon

2:10

Target

Where the work happens

Built at altitude, in Kenya.

The engine is built at altitude. I trained with Rongai Athletics, a premier club out there, before striking out on my own. A 1500m background carried up to the roads, the kind of base that makes the targets look less crazy the fitter I get.

Charan Singh on the track during a Kenya altitude training block

In motion

Track session

The training log

Straight from the camera roll

Group run on the dirt roads, Kenya altitude camp
Charan Singh on the track after a session
Charan Singh with his finisher medal, Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon 2025
Cooling down on the track
Heading out for a session, Kenya training base
Recovery stretch trackside

Race day

Charan Singh leading a pack at night, Vedanta Delhi Half Marathon 2025

On the start line

Race results

  • Kohima Ultra TrailDebutant70K · Nagaland, 2025

    5th place, trail & ultra debut

  • Vedanta Half MarathonDebutant21.1K · Delhi, 2025

    1:15, half debut through cramps from 8K

  • Adidas Uprising10K · Delhi

    2nd runner-up

  • Punjab State Athletics Championship1500M · Track

    Gold, back-to-back 2023 & 2024

  • Kenya National Athletics Meet1500M · Nyayo Stadium, Nairobi

    2023, Semifinalist

This season, in numbers.

Straight from Strava. Weekly volume swings with the block, hard when healthy, near zero when a niggle wins. These are the real 2026 totals, no rounding up.

696km

Run in 2026 so far

96

Runs logged

42.2km

Longest run

The other half

By day, I’m a principal product designer, 10+ years in the craft, now shaping AI products end to end. The discipline that shows up at 5am shows up in the work too.

See the design work