AM: Where have you parked our car?

Me: A little (15 metres) from the usual parking spot, it's got shade there.

AM (who runs 53 km "just like that" when running a 42 km marathon) : What a pain to go all that way to get into the car!


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Rohini Nair pushed her to do this, advocating for her at the Indian Consulate in D.C. and made this video happen.

I went along with shortindiangirl as 1. I am never able to go on her marathons or other long runs. 2. This was an early morning event (we were done by 7.45am!) and 3. I could (and did) use my 3 km walk as a tree and heritage walk, as well ( Read more... )

My evening swim ( Read more... )

This run had a great slogan:


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Yesterday I was far too knocked out by the migraine, but this morning, I did wake up in time to leave for my walk by 5.45 am. It was the lovely "ushat kAlam" ..the pre-dawn darkness slowly glowing into ambient light ( Read more... )

EXERCISE FOR PEOPLE OVER 60..indeed, any age ( Read more... )

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The internet forward which gave me this link mentioned that it was a traditional Indian "punishment" for children..."uthak-baithak" (get up and sit down). But in south India, especially in Tamil Nadu, this is a form of obeisance to the Elephant God, Ganesha. We call it "thOppik-karaNam" (the "karaNam" part, meaning ear, refers to the holding of ( Read more... )

shortindiangirl works, very hard, for Asha For Education....and she trains a fresh batch of runners each time, for the half-marathons. Once in a while, she gets an email like this ( Read more... )

see Chiddu's blog about how someone I know very well has beaten the odds for more than a decade Chiddu campaigns ceaselessly against vaccination, which, he says, is the only instance of medicine intervening actively in healthy people's lives. I'd not agree with him wholly, but certainly sometimes, expensive treatments seem not to be needed...if a ( Read more... )