Looking Forward Monday – BERLIN
Just one one or rather one photo for my looking forward Monday. Ok, I lied – many photos tell the story! That’s what I am looking forward to, even if I have to wait until Saturday to fly out.
#YouWillBeFound
#YouWillBeFound “So let the sun come streaming in‘Cause you’ll reach up and you’ll rise againLift your head and look aroundYou will be found” Have you ever felt emotionally breaking down for absolutely no reason other than a song, a song that you may have heard may times in the past without that extreme reaction? I didn’t even have this reaction on watching DEH live or when Hugh Jackman performed it so wonderfully. The song somehow found it’s way into one…
Back to School – 7 Weeks to Berlin
First full week of school.The heat and humidity is back with a vengeance. The weekly mileage is creeping up.My runs were hodge-podge but I did get all my miles in but could not get in any lunchtime bootcamp this week. Tuesday: I think I had a good tempo interval speed workout. Definitely made me work at it!! It was exhilarating to actually get it done. Wednesday: Tuesday night, my 13yo and me had a huge spat so I didn’t want…
Not being the perfect Mother
Relationships are hard. Expectations in relationships are harder. Maintaining relationships that have expectations of certain behavior is even more harder. Not having open conversations about the expectations in a relationship that you have to maintain is the hardest. A lot of what I feel is cultural and may not be understood by someone growing up in the US. Parenting Indian parents are mostly rigid with their kids with the focus on school rather than outside of school. I’m more of…
Trying to move past the frustration of running
I never thought I’d say this and I know that I don’t probably mean it and it is just the frustration speaking – At this moment in time, Saturday 5pm, as I sit defeated after yet another sucky run making it XX sucky runs in a row, I wonder …. (No, it is not just the Atlanta summer, I had horribly slow runs even when running next to the majestic Niagara Falls) I wonder why I am doing this to…
How to get a charity entry to Tokyo Marathon
Tokyo Marathon (to be held on March 1st, 2020) has a field of ~30,000 runners out of which 26,370 are through a lottery entry. While several people I know have been successful in getting a lottery spot, it is becoming increasingly difficult with a growing number of people looking to complete Tokyo as part of the World Marathon Majors Challenge (Tokyo, London, Boston, Berlin, Chicago, New York). In my quest for the WMM as a personal challenge, I figured that…
Christmas Eve Run aka My “Runniversary” Run
It is hard to imagine that it was only 8 short years ago that I took my first running steps. 8 years ago, I was nervous about it, I thought I was going to die while running and I hated it when I finished the run. I used to run alone with my eyes firmly on the ground and not looking up to anyone crossing, and I’d be dressed in all cotton T and baggy cotton capris, preferably black or grey. And…