Today is my father’s birthday. He would’ve been 86 today. My fondest memory of him happened when I was 11. I was in the northern Indian city of Patiala with my sister (Sheelben) and a bunch of other swimmers from Gujarat for swim-camp. Our accommodations were pretty bad and food was even worse. The pool […]
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Monkeying around on Merry Christmas
Super-cool Monkey Mug Merry Christmas. I did not receive new training gadgets this year. I did not want any. I am happy with my Garmin 910XT. Santa (aka Binita) did give me a super-funky super-cool monkey-business coffee mug today (pictured above). I look forward to enjoying coffee every morning in my cool monkey mug. I […]
Congratulations Megan!
We were at a rockin party last night. It was Megan’s Bat Mitzvah. In the morning she was amazingly poised as she recited and sang Hebrew. Of course we had no idea what she was singing but it sounded beautiful. In the evening, it was time to let our hair down and hit the dance […]
A tough golf shot
This Sunday I plan to go on my first group bikeride since May of 2014. It’ll probably be around 40 or so miles on relatively flat terrain with Kristi, Katie, Mike and a couple of other guys from The Village. I’m excited! Today I ran for a short 4+ miles around the DC Ranch neighborhood. […]
Back in the saddle after 18 months
It was 18 months ago that I was diagnosed with Pulmonary Embolism. When there are 6 clots in your lungs including a saddle clot, you have to get on strong blood thinner medication. Since I was on Xarelto (a mild form of rat poison) which has no antidote, any head trauma would be quite deadly […]
Favorable forecast for the New York Marathon
When you run hills in the heat, your heartrate has no choice but to flirt up. Today was supposed to be an 8-mile taper day but the run sure didn’t feel like a taper run. The last 3 miles were straight uphill and my heart rate was constantly into the 150s. It even touched 160. […]
When a soft drizzle turns hot and humid
The early afternoon heat and sunshine gave way to cloud-cover by late afternoon today. With cracking thunder in the distance, the skies looked ominous. Heavy rain-showers bypassed my house but light drizzle began to fall. There was a slight breeze tempting me to give up my treadmill tempo run in favor of running outside. At […]
Running on jetlag
It’s no surprise that I have jetlag. On my first day back, I feel lethargic. I spent the entire day at home catching up on work, taking a long nap, hanging out with and giving Missy a much needed bath, and going for a quick 4-mile run around my neighborhood. It was around 80 degrees […]
TopGolf is not real golf, but it is fun!
Everything was scrunched up today. Things were back-to-back-to-back at work and I barely had time to relax. I found a 40-minute slot in the afternoon and ran near my house. It was hot outside in the afternoon and I ran more hills than I wanted to, but I got an easy run in. In the […]
Decent versus descent – big difference!
Once again it was cold today. At around 4:30PM, I started my 1-hour run. I ran through the streets of DC Ranch (Pima, Legacy, Thompson Peak, Bell, etc.) for a total of just over 8 miles. I started easy but picked my my pace after about 15 minutes. I ran briskly for the next 35 […]