PEDAL POWER

LIEUTENANT COLONEL BHARAT PANNU HAS NOTCHED UP YET ANOTHER WIN IN THE SELF-SUPPORTED CATEGORY OF THE ULTRA SPICE RACE

- Shail Desai

The doubts started creeping into Bharat Pannu's head on the third day of the Ultra Spice Race-a 1,750-km ultra-cycling endeavour that got underway on January 22 from Bogmalo Beach in Goa, headed towards Ooty, before making its way back to the starting point. He had ridden about a thousand kilometres until then, solo and self-supported.

But now, pedalling in the wee hours of the morning around Kalpetta in Kerala, he didn't see the sense of the entire effort. "The next cyclist was trailing me by a good distance.