Singh was no longer running long distances by the age of 13 in 2015, and was running one or two hours of conditional training per day. Sambit Mohapatra, a sports journalist wrote that "He cannot even win his school race these days. Budhia used to run for kilometres. But his coach never tested his ability with other sprinters before he was shoved into the sports hostel...His future doesn't look promising". Despite this, Singh himself has said that he would like to one day represent India at the Olympics in the men's marathon.