speed intervals - Juhu Beach - friday, 2nd april 2010

Did speed intervals today at Juhu beach, first time that speed work was done at the beach. Did 7 rounds of 400 metres followed by easy jog of 400 metres. Before that did rigorous stretching and followed it up with post run stretching.There were 8 of us in the group.

Public Provident Fund Scheme

RBI has clarified on Public Provident Fund Scheme that


1) in case of deposit of cheques in the PPF a/c, the date of realization of the cheque will be henceforth treated as date of deposit, as against date of tender which was hitherto considered as date of deposit;

2) PPF account can be opened in the name of minor children by either father or mother (but not both);

copy of RBI circular can be found here

tempo run - tuesday, 30th march 2010

Did a 27 minutes tempo today, good pace throughout, good rhythm.

easy run - friday, 26th march 2010

did an easy run of 67.13 minutes, good rhythm, easy pace and controlled running, experimented with high style of running for a while, looks good.

Tempo - Wednesday, 24th march 2010

Did a tempo  run of 22 minutes today, experimented with better running style, good results. Overall workout for 56.01 minutes, Completed 50 hours of running today for 2010.

Time Stops at Shamli

Just finished reading "Time Stops at Shamli" a collection of  short stories by Ruskin Bond, a reader comparable only to RK Narayan. Beautiful stories about hill town people and their lives, Bond writes with empathy about animals. All the stories are good, but the undoubted best was "Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright"

BNP - sunday, 21st march 2010 - hill sprints

Did hill sprints in Borivli National Park today, a hilly slope of about 800 metres. It keeps climbing gradually, not too steep, but manageable for more than 2 rounds that i did today, certainly 4 next time. Before that did an easy 5 km on the alternate route, which had too climbers. overall good workout today.