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Dream pedaller: Meet the teenage girl setting new records as an ultra-cyclist

Updated on: Jan 12, 2024, 20:33:34 IST
By Rutvick Mehta
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PREMIUM‘Ultra-cycling is not a feasible career. I’m leaning towards engineering,’ Reddy says. ‘I think it might be too early for me to do the RAAm right now, but I will be riding somewhere. I’ll do something worthwhile… before giving it up.’
‘Ultra-cycling is not a feasible career. I’m leaning towards engineering,’ Reddy says. ‘I think it might be too early for me to do the RAAm right now, but I will be riding somewhere. I’ll do something worthwhile… before giving it up.’
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Niharika Reddy zipped so fast from Pune to Goa, she qualified for the Race Across America. She may not do it. ‘I wanted other girls to see a girl win,’ she says

“I’m so busy preparing for the exams,” Niharika Reddy says, almost apologetically. She just gave her preliminary Class 12 boards, and has finals coming up in February.

She set all studying aside while preparing for the 2023 Deccan Cliffhanger (DC), which she won on November 26. Now she’s racing to make up for the lost time.

If Reddy sounds a bit like she’s pedalling full-tilt on a downhill slope, it’s because that is, more or less, what she has been

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