The Race Director

DR RAJAT CHAUHAN

Student of Pain & Running (Life); Advocate of GOYA (Get Off Your Arse); Race Director: La Ultra - The High; Author; Columnist (HT, Mint)

Dr. Rajat Chauhan is the founder, creator of La Ultra – The High. The idea was conceived in 2009 after he moved to India from London and planned to continue his love for ultra running. He’s a trained sports medicine & a musculo-skeletal expert and runs Back 2 Fitness clinic in Delhi where he works with athletes to common man on achieving optimum level of physical fitness and help them achieve their goals.

Dr. Rajat have been running for the last 36 years and making others run too. In my spare time I am an MBBS doctor specializing in Sports-Exercise Medicine (Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham) and Osteopathy / Musculo-Skeletal Medicine (London College of Osteopathic Medicine) with special

interest in Back and Knee Pain

Besides heading Back 2 Fitness, a Sports-Medicine & Muscuklo-Skeletal Medicine (focus on Neck, Back & Knee Pain) clinic for last 12+ years, he, along with his band of crazy friends, came up with La Ultra – The High, a 555 km (previously 333 & 222 km) run in Leh-Ladakh, India. They have been putting it together for the last 11 years now. Some argue that it’s the world’s toughest, missing the point that it doesn’t matter. More importantly, it’s not about running. It’s about rediscovering their true self hidden away under all the layers. 

In 2013, through a Couch to 6 km program, Dr. Rajat guided ladies of 13 – 60 years of age from all walks of life, to reclaim life. Currently he have been putting together Run & Bee camps of 33 days duration, making folks to become a better version of themselves. Dr. is also a member of the leadership board of Vega Schools.

Dr. Rajat was Principal Technical Consultant & Head Coach for adidas India (running) from 2014-2017. He was also the founding Director of Sports & Exercise Department at Ashoka University (2014-2016) where he was responsible for the sports infrastructure and making sports and physical activity an integral part of the curriculum.

Dr. Rajat was the founding-head of Sports & Exercise Medicine department at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore (2006-2008) long before Sports Medicine was a popular term in India.

In 2015 he was invited to prepare a white-paper for a Sports University planned by the Government of National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi. It taught him that politics was definitely not my core competence.

Dr. Rajat was elect-Chairperson for World Congress of Science & Medicine in Cricket (WCSM), held during 2011 Cricket World Cup in India, but decided to quit because he wasn’t one of them. During the 2007 World Cup (West Indies), he was invited by the WCSM committee to represent the sub-continent.

In 2017 he brought to India it’s first Running Festival, iRun Fest, which showcased Running Documentaries from around the world, Panel Discussions with thought leaders in running being on board and a platform for all involved in running in whatever capacity.

Dr. Rajat’s first book, The Pain Handbook – A non-surgical way to managing back, neck and knee pain published by Penguin (2016), empowers the reader, the sufferer with knowledge, because this is the one body one has.

His second book, Move: 5 km in 55 days, to be published by March 2021 by Juggernaut. It is not so much about running or exercising, as it is about empowering you to reclaim your best in every sense. The intent is to motivate you to move, to enable you to build yourselves up physically and psychologically, with simple exercises. It also has a daily plan for 55 days to get the reader from couch to 5 km.

Dr. Rajat have been a columnist with Mint (incl. running podcast series, MoveMint) and Hindustan Times (incl. FacebookLive series) since 2008 (till Covid lockdown). He have also been an Associate Editor at British Journal of Sports Medicine & guest columnist for Forbes IndiaEconomic TimesThe Hindu & Founding Fuel

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Dr. Rajat Chauhan is the founder, creator of La Ultra – The High. The idea was conceived in 2009 after he moved to India from London and planned to continue his love for ultra running. He’s a trained sports medicine & a musculo-skeletal expert and runs Back 2 Fitness clinic in Delhi where he works with athletes to common man on achieving optimum level of physical fitness and help them achieve their goals.

Dr. Rajat have been running for the last 36 years and making others run too. In my spare time I am an MBBS doctor specializing in Sports-Exercise Medicine (Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham) and Osteopathy / Musculo-Skeletal Medicine (London College of Osteopathic Medicine) with special interest in Back and Knee Pain

 

Besides heading Back 2 Fitness, a Sports-Medicine & Muscuklo-Skeletal Medicine (focus on Neck, Back & Knee Pain) clinic for last 12+ years, he, along with his band of crazy friends, came up with La Ultra – The High, a 555 km (previously 333 & 222 km) run in Leh-Ladakh, India. They have been putting it together for the last 11 years now. Some argue that it’s the world’s toughest, missing the point that it doesn’t matter. More importantly, it’s not about running. It’s about rediscovering their true self hidden away under all the layers. 

In 2013, through a Couch to 6 km program, Dr. Rajat guided ladies of 13 – 60 years of age from all walks of life, to reclaim life. Currently he have been putting together Run & Bee camps of 33 days duration, making folks to become a better version of themselves. Dr. is also a member of the leadership board of Vega Schools.

Dr. Rajat was Principal Technical Consultant & Head Coach for adidas India (running) from 2014-2017. He was also the founding Director of Sports & Exercise Department at Ashoka University (2014-2016) where he was responsible for the sports infrastructure and making sports and physical activity an integral part of the curriculum.

Dr. Rajat was the founding-head of Sports & Exercise Medicine department at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore (2006-2008) long before Sports Medicine was a popular term in India.

In 2015 he was invited to prepare a white-paper for a Sports University planned by the Government of National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi. It taught him that politics was definitely not my core competence.

Dr. Rajat was elect-Chairperson for World Congress of Science & Medicine in Cricket (WCSM), held during 2011 Cricket World Cup in India, but decided to quit because he wasn’t one of them. During the 2007 World Cup (West Indies), he was invited by the WCSM committee to represent the sub-continent.

In 2017 he brought to India it’s first Running Festival, iRun Fest, which showcased Running Documentaries from around the world, Panel Discussions with thought leaders in running being on board and a platform for all involved in running in whatever capacity.

Dr. Rajat’s first book, The Pain Handbook – A non-surgical way to managing back, neck and knee pain published by Penguin (2016), empowers the reader, the sufferer with knowledge, because this is the one body one has.

His second book, Move: 5 km in 55 days, to be published by March 2021 by Juggernaut. It is not so much about running or exercising, as it is about empowering you to reclaim your best in every sense. The intent is to motivate you to move, to enable you to build yourselves up physically and psychologically, with simple exercises. It also has a daily plan for 55 days to get the reader from couch to 5 km.

Dr. Rajat have been a columnist with Mint (incl. running podcast series, MoveMint) and Hindustan Times (incl. FacebookLive series) since 2008 (till Covid lockdown). He have also been an Associate Editor at British Journal of Sports Medicine & guest columnist for Forbes IndiaEconomic TimesThe Hindu & Founding Fuel

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