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jyothirmayee

Starting late...

Jan 26, 2007 13:13

"Girls 100m heats 2 get ready" came a shout
I watched the other girls tighten laces of their spikes and keeping their blocks ready. I had nothing to do and just waited for them to read out the names and the track numbers. I was told that i was to take position in track #2. I walked up to the track, measured step from start line and took position ( Read more... )

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rudugudu January 28 2007, 17:09:23 UTC

Never knew you were an athlete. Nice reading the post.

jyothirmayee January 30 2007, 07:45:53 UTC

Hey Arun, thanks.
Oh you know in my 1st year of Engineering, after 3 years, I tried to get back into athletics. Myself and a girl from hostel used to get to the football ground in college early in the morning and it lasted a week! As you know there was hardly any encouragement in college at that point of time, moreover I too got busy with too many things. I don't regret, i am happy with whatever I could do :)

jbritto January 29 2007, 08:05:14 UTC

I didn't know either, but not surprised. Too bad about the fracture...

I was to run bare foot and without blocks or any other accessories.
I can imagine you telling your grandchildren: "In those days..." ;-)

jyothirmayee January 30 2007, 08:07:47 UTC

hehe.. that would be interesting. I can't even imagine how the responses would be.. technology would be so much more advanced by then. I also wonder if they can imagine the past!

anonymous January 29 2007, 19:07:32 UTC

could not resist saying this after the above comment..
I can imagine my grandchild bragging to his friends "my grandpa knew that famous lady who keeps coming on TV and newspapers." :D

Hope you were able to capture the spike this time around.. Even otherwise, it will just be a local maxima, losing which, will help you in easily capturing the global maxima as you are already aware of how to capture it.. :)

Btw, what exactly is a heat? Google was not very helpful..

-Srikanth

jyothirmayee January 30 2007, 08:15:37 UTC

lets see, will treat you specially on that day ;)

yes, this time around, we just managed. I felt relaxed and I took time out to blog.

Heats is the preliminary selection process to shortlist finalists, especially in individual events. check out #10: http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=heats

anonymous February 19 2007, 11:28:12 UTC

but the big question is how do you find out when to give up and when to push harder, for what might often look like a hopeless battle might be just needing a bigger application of human will, enterprise and initiative to give way.

1pari March 28 2007, 09:19:34 UTC

nice one :)

parimala