Last year (or the year before) I read about the idea of picking a word of the year that influences you from Amanda at Run to the Finish. With my focus this year being on Augusta 70.3 and trying to manage my nutrition, I think Amanda’s approach is a great start to this. My word for the year is DISCIPLINE The word came up a few months ago as I was lamenting on how I was struggling to eat right…
At the end of 2013, I summed it up as – A bit of everything (running, yoga, crossfit, triathlon), a bit of focus lost and regained (running goals defined), a new love gained (triathlon and crossfit) and an old love reclaimed (running!). And so finishing up 2013 and going into 2014, I had just one race in April that I was training for. I was trying to juggle that with CrossFit. Here’s me looking back at 2014 and a (not so short) recap of my…
This was my first weekend of LONG training for Dopey Challenge! And nothing prepares you mentally for a LONG long run like the weather channel forecasting 100% rain during the exact 5 hours you expect to be out. I wasn’t looking forward to running that long in the rain, I didn’t want to either. But the alternative of changing my run days wasn’t an option either. I sort of knew what the answer would be and I didn’t want to sound…
I’m not a stranger to yoga. For the starting and winning point, I’m Indian and grew up with some form of yoga or the other. I used to regularly attend one class/week at the YMCA. And I have used p90x Stretch/Yoga while training. However, other than during pregnancy, I have not attended any at a yoga studio. I’ve been too intimidated! That is until a local yoga studio started a series called iAthlete – a Yoga class geared towards triathletes and…
This past Monday, Elizabeth from RunningForBling hosted a holiday dinner for some running bloggers. (She had one last year, but I was in Disney at that time!). Although I had interacted with Elizabeth on Twitter & Instagram, this was my first time meeting her in real life (if you exclude the fleeting 12 second ‘hello’ just two days before while running.) We had a little White Elephant gift exchange. There were some awesome packages that people put together including a…
I met Bill Rodgers 5 years ago in October at his running store while on vacation in Boston. I was hanging around Faneuil Hill Marketplace with my then 3yo and 10month old when I saw the running store. Mr. FauxTriathlete had his first half marathon coming up shortly and I wanted to get him a gift or motivational something. I met this nice guy at the store and started talking to him. Soon he asked me if I was running the…
I’ve done the Atlanta Thanksgiving Half Marathon 3 times before – and except for the first time (where I went under 3hrs in a half marathon for the first time), the race has always ended in frustration for me; tears even. But it is a kind of tradition to run, brag and eat. Race Instructions Training Peaks said that I had to run the race with a steady pace of 13:30 – “If you think “let’s put some time in the…