35:18 today with 21 rounds. I won't be blogging my running details anymore. I have opened a training log in the runnersworld and soon the link to see my training log will be given. Only the interesting things will be blogged say for instance if I take part in some race.

ssundar

33:29:15 today with 20 rounds.

30:17 with 18 rounds.
Struggled a lot today. Is it due to walking the entire Lodhi gardens, Janpath yesterday or am I giving some lame excuse ?

Olympics

Writing this post after having drunk two bottles of beer. As I was drinking beer in Mandarin court ( a hotel opposite ISI) ,I was watching some olympic highlights. I thought of writing this post about some of my memories from watching olympics. I was born in the year 1984 an olympic year. But I could not have remembered anything that happened in my life in the year 1984 let alone olympics. I don't remember anything from 1988 olympics either. The only rememberance that I have of the 1988 olympics in Seoul is that my brother Walters broke the " manual remote"( the channel turning device ) in our television while swithing from some channel( must be Rupawahini, a srilankan channel as DD and rupawahini are the only two channels available in Tuticorin in 80's and the early 90's) to DD to watch some football match. So let us start with the 1992 Barcelona olympics.
1992 Barcelona: Can not remember much. I can remember sergie Bubka running for some pole vault event. Did he win that olympics ? Some random gymnasits doing some bars, some diving that's all.

1996 Atlanta: I watched the 200m and 400m men's competition in atheletics when Michael Johnson set the world record. I still can remember the huge margin that he had over the silver medalists in those events. Agassi, silver medalist ( I don't know his name) and Leander Paes in the medal ceromony, some gymnasts and some diving and Carl lewis doing longjump. That's all

2000 sydney: Can remember a little more. Thorpe losing the 200m freestyle to Van der Hoogenband, Inde jui bruin ( a dutch swimmer ) winning her freestyle event, Thorpe anchoring Australia to the relay gold overcoming the US and ofcourse the Cathy Freeman's 400m run. I also remember Marion Jones winning her 100m gold with a huge margin. Some Srilankan sprinter came second, I beleive. Who can forget the 10K run when Haile Gerbaissle won the gold medal. I also watched the hockey finals but I don't remember who won. Is it spain or Netherlands ? I think it is spain.

2004 Athens : I was in my second year B.Sc in my college. That was the only other time except now when I used to run regularly in the morning. I can remember a day when my friend Thiruviyaraj and I was discussing how India lost to some team at the last few minutes in a preliminary round. I distinctly remember watching the 200m freestyle swim tagged the battle of titans by the Hindu which was won by Ian thorpe followed by van der Hoogenband and Michael Phelps. Also can remember telling Thiruviayraj about Phelps' exploits. El Gourrej winning 1500m and 5000m, Australia winning the hockey gold and more gymnasts are my remembrance from 2004.

2008 Beijing: I haven't watched anything live. I have wathced all the events only in Youtube. This is alos the first olympics when I was away from my home. The only live events that I have watched are Federer losing to Blake, 100m ( Some style) where liesel Jones won her gold medal and ofcourse Usain bolt's 100m run. I missed Phelps' swimming and Bolt's 200m. But thanks to youtube I had watched all of them.

ssundar

21 rounds in 35:47:31.
Saturday: rest day
Now the goal for the next week is to break the 25 rounds/45 minutes barrier.

33:14:27. It is raining now. Got up a little late at 6.30 today and went to the park at 7.00. Struggled with the run a bit.

Finally got back on track. Did 20 rounds in the park in 34:29:87. Did 15 minutes on Monday evening. My running got shifted to evening in the past few days and I finally managed to wake up today to go for a run.

Today I ran the qutab culture complex route. I started from Qutab hotel and reached the park in the culture complex and ran in the park. It took me 17 minutes to reach the park from Qutab hotel to reach the park and ran a little in the park adding upto a total of 30 minutes. The distance from the Qutab hotel to the park is 2.32 Km. From the walkjogrun.net, The following facts are found:
1) Speed 7.7 km/h
2) Pace 7.6 min/Km
3) 1 round in the park in the culture complex is about 700m

I ran exactly at the same pace as that of Yesterday. Since I ran 18 rounds yesterday, it follows that a round in the chota park is nearly 225 m. This is in contradiction to my earlier post. So I have to do more experiments to find out the distance of a round in the chota park. But I should point out that in my earlier experiment I was not using a stop watch and I got stuck in the traffic. I should do different routes and I should run in the morning to avoid traffic.

ssundar

32:27 with 18 rounds

The worst has happened. Injured myself. My back is paining a lot. I kept doing the toe touch exercise and hurt my back. Runner's world says that one should not do the toe touch exercise. Also the push the wall stretch also seems to be wrong according to Runner's world. All the time I was doing my stretching in a wrong way. Will take rest till Friday and hope to resume running from Saturday. I should learn the correct technique to run and to stretch. My goals for August have gone for a toss.
ssundar

38:56:87 with 21 rounds

32.44 minutes

Ran for 40 minutes today. I don't think I will run tomorrow. Feeling tired. Went to connaught place around 11.30 returned just now. The temptation to eat out forced me to go. Ate full meals with sambar and without aaloo in Saravana Bhavan. Had sakarai pongal at the end. In ISI every meal will have some aaloo. Aaloo bhindi,aaloo pumpkin,aaloo sandwitch etc.... This combined with Dal makes one to fart all day.
Connaught place consists of three concentric circles with several radial roads connecting the circles. There is a park at the centre. There are lot of shops. One can get anything. I bought a timex watch which has a stop watch facility. I should not have gone in the morning as it was hot and I could not see many places. Will go once again in the night ?( ofcourse to eat my favourite Dosa in Saravana Bhavan)

Heavy rain today. So no running was ( is) possible. It looks like the rain will continue for a few days.

Did 38 minutes with 23 laps in the inner track. A disaster is averted. There is a way that connects the outer lap of the park with the inner one. It was blocked today by a string with nails. I didn't see that today ( I was running my 21st lap) till the last moment when a bhai told me dekho. Otherwise I would have had major injuries. Thanks sab.

ssundar

36 minutes in the morning.
20 rounds in the inner track with a final outer lap.
It makes a distance of 4Km.

ssundar

Sunday: 30 minutes
Monday:30 minutes with 19 rounds
Tuesday will be a rest day

Did 35 minutes in the morning starting at 6.25 AM. My stopwatch showed 35:27:21.