Finished running for the month of July. Nearly 450 minutes of running in July. I had covered atleast 45 Kms this month. I am having 20-25 minutes as my comfort zone level and always struggling in the last 5 minutes. Let me set some realistic goals for the month of August which I should reach by the end of Aug.

1) To make the comfort zone as 30-35 minutes and to push for 40-45 minutes.
2) Run atleast once a 5K route.
3) Run in the morning no later than 7.15 AM
4) Run atleast 20 days covering a distance of 60 Kms

30 minutes with 18 rounds

Same 30 minutes in the morning. Will push for 35-40 minutes tomorrow.

ssundar

After a long time I ran in the morning. Didn't do any experiments. Just ran for 30 minutes in the usual park. Struggled a lot with the breath. What is the correct breathing technique ? Inhale through nose and out through mouth ? Breath through the mouth ? Don't open the mouth at all ? I remember my PT teacher in my school used to scold for people opening the mouth while running. He used to shout "Vaaya moodu " and the students respond with "S***tha moodu". Any help here.
In the mornings, a baba with his disciples walk in the track and block the track completely. Every time I have to tell them "Sab, Side disiye Side disiye". Really frustrating !
I hope that I will continue running in the mornings. Difficult to keep up. Let me try.

Friday: 35 minutes. Till now the maximum. Completed one week without a puff.

Wednesday: 30 minutes with 16 rounnds

Monday:rest day
Tuesday: did 32 minutes with 17 rounds in the park.

Today I tried to understand my jogging a little bit. So I decided to run a route which can be plotted in walkjogrun.net to find the distance. I also wanted to run atleast 20 minutes so that my average speed can be worked out. So I took the route from Qutab hotel to the culture complex in the Press Enclave Marg through the Aurobindo Marg. The total distance is 2.41km. I took 23 minutes. As a result I find the following facts.
My speed is 6.25 km/hr which is really slow but I am comfortable in this speed. So it is ok. The distance of the track that I usually run (Recall the track of the "Chota park") is 180-185 m. The calculation is based on the statistic that I run 14 rounds in 25 minutes. So to run 5K it is necessary for me to run 45-48 minutes. So the next goal to reach is to push for 45 minutes of running which I will do gradually after consolidating my 30 minutes of Jogging.
Next Sunday, I will cross check this data by running from Qutab to the Panchasheel flyover through the IIT flyover. It covers a distance of 2.66 Km. See you with another piece of bullshit statistics next sunday. Till then Goodbye from Sundar.

Time: 7.00 PM
Duration:30 minutes

Yesterday I gave up my quit. Started my quit again today. Not going to count the number of hrs. I will count only by weeks and include the weeks in my blog.

Finally did 30 minutes of running. Felt great. Going to do 30 minutes twice a week and do 25-30 minutes the other days for the next few weeks till the first week of August. I should consolidate this 30 minutes start before pushing any further.
96 hrs without smoking. Was desperate yesterday ? Somehow managed to hang in there. I am going to treat myself at Karim's if I stay smoke free till this Sunday. Four days not able to concentrate properly because of not smoking.
Should get back to work from tomorrow. Should complete the local index formula computation for SU_{q}(2) for q=0 by this weekend. The important thing to remember is that I can jog and stay smoke free even in Chennai. It is for the work that I have come here. So make full use of it. Stay motivated.

Time:7.00 PM
Duration: 22 minutes

Got back to running finally after rain and other physchological troubles. Struggled a little bit. Not able to do the usual 25 minutes. Tommorrow will try the usual 25 minutes jog. 72 hrs without a cigarrete.

68 hrs without smoke

48 hrs without smoke. Take one day at a time. Go to sleep without a smoke.

43 hrs without smoke

Just 11 minutes today as rain played spoil sport.
25 hrs since I smoked.
From now on I will keep blogging not only the Jogging minutes but also the non-smoking hours.

Same 25 minutes again.

What a final!

Hi folks,
I decided to write something else in my blog other than my boring stats about my running. What a final that we had on Sunday. Nadal vs Federer. I thought the last year final was the best that I watched. But this year's one eclipsed that one. I like Nadal for his determination to return every single ball to the other side of the net. Stats will say that Federer made more unforced errors. But the truth is that Nadal forced Federer to go for the lines and hence he made more errors.
Federer made a great comeback after he lost the second set. The shots that he played to save some match points were truly sublime. My favourite moment is in the fourth set tiebreak. At 7-7, with Federer serving and with Federer all over that point, Nadal hit an impossible forehand passing shot as Federer was approching the net. Then the next point Fed hit an even better passing shot with his backhand down the line to save the match point. It was great tennis. How they must have felt ? We can't even think of such an experience. See the following video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKBRKok4Ltg
In the end Nadal's determintation and single mindedness won the day for him. Ofcourse, he played some amazing shots to beat Federer. I like Federer for his unbelievable shot making skills. I am in fact a Federer fan. I want Fed to win the French open which now seems increasingly difficult. But now after this final, I simply admire Nadal for his fighting spirit. He has become one of my sporting heroes.
I always preferred sportsmen with never say die attitude than the ones with more skill. Steve Waugh to Tendulkar for example. In sports, whatever one says , one always plays to win. In batting, the sole purpose is not to give your wicket. It doesn't matter if you take a short ball on your ribs than hooking and getting caught.( Stolen from Stevewaugh's autobiography). Same in tennis, put the ball across the net with a single handed backhand or a double handed one.
Vamos Nadal ! I am desperate to get back at IMSc and play some tennis. It doesn't matter if I play with the guy who considers him an artist or the guy who is really an artist but also a master at breaking racquets or with the one who can read about deformation quantization all day but can't run for 12 fucking minutes in the treadmill.

ssundar

Time: 7.00 AM
Rounds: 14
Duration: 25 minutes

On Sunday, I did 25 minutes of jogging nonstop. It is the maximum that I had run. I did 14 rounds. Today I did not run as I took it as a rest day. Tomorrow morning I will try to do 25 minutes again and push for the 15th round. My veins are showing up in my arm. I am so happy. I am studying well too.

I did 23 minutes today. I finished 13 rounds. Next target is to push for 30 minutes. I will try to improve by a minute everyday.

Today I went for a jog in the morning. I woke up at 6.30. In Delhi, Sun comes out only late. Even 7.30 won't be hot unlike in Chennai. I did 12 rounds today. It took me 20 minutes. Today I found that I can do 8,9 rounds with ease and the struggle starts only around round 10. A week earlier I was struggling at round 5,6 itself. So every time I run I will push the limit by a little. So now the minimum 20 minutes is established, I am going to jog for x minutes where x \geq 20.

Again 18 minutes of 10 rounds for the last two days. Today, I will try 11 rounds. Tomorrow is rest day and by Sunday I plan to hit 20 minutes.