10 mile barrier!!!!! My shoe hits the road and my body locks up into this symmetric motion with my hands and legs. Oh! the human body is so beautifuuly designed to run and be mobile. As it trudges through the trail, a pearls of sweat make an appareance on my face and before I could wipe it, a gentle breeze blows across to dry it and the cool feeling I get is never matched by an airconditioner. This can be aptly be termed as the joy of running.

I ran ten miles this morning. It is definitely a personal milestone in my training for this marathon. Few months back, even I wouldn't have believed I could run 10 miles non-stop on a windy and chill morning. The trail was Sawyer Camp Trail and the views of the lake below is heavenly.  ¶ 8:26 PM 0 comments

  Crowding thoughts Training for a marathon is a very different experience. You are not trying to be quick. You are trying to fight the distance and not the time. The only way you can fight the distance is through practice. So, the training has one really long run by the end of whic you will drop dead, two weekly runs by the end of which you want to get into an Indian restaurant and hog as if you just walked all alone through the Sahara desert and one track workout, after which you feel like slaughtering the Pheidippides. [ For non hisotry majors, The marathon race commemorates the run of the soldier
Pheidippides from a battlefield near Marathon, Greece, to Athens in 490 B.C., bringing news of a Greek victory over the Persians. Pheidippides collapsed and died at the end of his historic run]. My only question to Pheidippides before gullitoning him mercilessly would be why didn't he fall dead a little earlier than 26 miles.

But, it is really intresting and intriguing the kind of thoughts that crowd my mind while I am training....

- The breakfast menu at Komala Vilas
- Vital stats of Maliika Sherawat, who I think is the biggest four letter S word that ends with T and the middle two letters are the first two letters of a tiny country in Europe. If you want to know the middle two letters, donate for my marathon.
- Whether the warning about the mountain lions and rattle snake in this trail might come true.
- What would be the half time score at the basketball game?
- When will I have six pack like Peter Andre?
- When can I have my next six pack of Corona?
- When is the next water stop?
- When will this trail end?
- What would Michael Jackson be doing at six in the morning?
- What would be the best punishment for Bradd Pitt and Angelina Jolie for torturing me with a movie like Mr. and Mr.s Smith?
- Why in the damn hell is my test not working?
- Pray that Australia beats England. One of the coaches is a Brit:-)

My mind is amazing. It never concentrates on the job on hand.  ¶ 10:34 PM 0 comments

  Wallace Falls this week I was in Seattle last week and I couldn't do the long run. It was a cool off week before we start doing the higher mileage again. Vani and I hiked the Wallace Falls trails. It was about 5 miles to and from the falls. It was picturesque and the falls were nestled in a dense forest. We even saw a small reptile on the trail which prompted a frightend response from the lady.  ¶ 1:10 PM 0 comments

  Which Marathon??? After much consternation about the gradient in San Francisco and constipation about the lack of support in Silicon valley, I have decided to run the "Chicago Marathon". The rendezvous with 26.2 miles and painful limbs is set for Oct 9, 2005. I am training with this group of tireless and enthusiastic runners called Team ASHA . I am into my 12th week of training....  ¶ 2:27 PM 2 comments