week ending 25th july

interesting week with two speed workouts - tempo run of 35 minutes on wednesday and fartlek of 10 rounds of 100 metres each on saturday, interspersed with easy run on thursday and long run on sunday. total mileage including the speed workout days - 39 kms. Disapppointed at not doing more on sunday, now for next sunday's i-race at IIT Powai, Bombay.

The Cradle Will Fall

Just finished reading "The Cradle Will Fall" a medical murder mystery by Mary Higgins Clark, my first book by her. The narrative is patchy at parts and goes up and forth many times. Clark does'nt come upto the level expected of her, overall a racy book, but no comparison to the queen of crime Agatha Christhie.

The Undomestic Goddess

Just finished reading "The Undomestic Goddess" by sophie kinsella, my first one by her. It is a light hearted wodehousian type comedy, never a dull moment, the narrative is brilliant and ease with which she goes from comedy to romance to comedy and back is very good.

Bandra-Churchgate Run 18th July 2010

Fantastic run today, we started at 5.45 a.m., while it was humid in Bandra, the moment we crossed Mahim the humidity ceased, sun did not peep out today, except for a few moments when we were reaching mahalakshmi race course, probably to see whether runners were still on the road. Pedder road climb and Kemps Corner flyover were a breeze probably due to the intense workouts we do in Aarey and BNP, crossing into Marine Drive we were into a pleasant surprise. Rain gods showered its blessings on the runners in plenty – running in marine drive in the rains was a dream come true. The entire stretch from Wilsons College to NCPA was the best part of today’s run.




MANY THANKS to Jayati for organizing water & bananas at poddar hospital with her friend Amit who also run with us, to Krishna for arranging tempo with water all throughout the route and for tirelessly going up and down with water for the runners and to Sundaresan for arranging water, bananas & glucose biscuits at the finish point. MANY THANKS to Genieve for arranging a video shoot of the runners – that was awesome Gen, you friend was stupendous. YOU GUYS ARE THE REAL HEROES OF TODAY.



We had 36 runners in all, with a four member team (Zico, Amit Joshi, Raj & Sohanlal starting from Goregaon and doing 32 kms in all – super effort), Apurba joining us from Dadar, Sameer from Worli, Ganesh & Mohana running all the way from Sion (magnificient effort that!), Jayati & Amit joining from Poddar Hospital, Khushro Patel from Worli & Sundaresan starting from NCPA and meeting the runners at Poddar Hospital (Grand effort that!).



We had few first timers – Sameer, Manav, Ashok Naidu, Sukesh, Abishai, Jayati, Amit, Arun Prasad – many thanks for joining us – hope you keep coming for group runs and races to be organized in future.



Great leadership from Milton and great support from Giles.



Missed Roshni, Kavin, Mike, Veera, Qureshi, Bharatbhai and his team, among others today.
A few photos are uploaded here

10 best foods for runners

10 best foods for runners, Click here

Running Injuries

Link to information about Running injuries here

Kitchen Confidential

Just finished reading "Kitchen Confidential" by Anthony Bourdain, the high profile chef who is seen regularly on Discovery Travel & Living Channel. This is a high octane book, destroying many of the myths surrounding the restaurant business.