This Maharashtra race has been started by a group of people who had been making an annual trip to Mumbai to participate in a distance-running event. They began their own race in 2012. In 2015, they entered the Guinness World Records book for Most People in a Mountain Run (Single Mountain) with 2,618 runners. Despite the lush green Western Ghats, the rolling terrain and a route twisting through the Deccan Plateau make it one of the toughest runs in the country. So tough that the organizers call it the “ultra" half marathon.

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