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“Have you tried changing your shoes??”
Anyone who has run a fair amount in their lives must have certainly struggled with injuries. I have had my fair share of frustrating experiences with injuries, too. Shin splints, calf pains, you name it, I have had them all. Injuries are quite painful, both literally and metaphorically. Being injured also means I have to…
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You can’t have your coffee and get a good night’s sleep, too???
This cafe is awfully quite today. John Mayer is singing quietly in the background. Only a couple of tables are occupied. I like to come here every morning for a cup of coffee. They make some really nice scones here, too. People say scones are too dry and rough. But I like the way they…
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“Life is a marathon and not a sprint.”
It’s funny how we try to draw parallels between two seemingly disparate things in life and often make sweeping generalizations. In research, there is something called transferability, the degree to which results of one research can be used to make generalizations about other contexts or events. In simple terms, it is the act of using…
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Running and other things…continued..
So, in the last blog, I tried to delve into how I got into running. I ended the blog, mentioning how I hadn’t run in a “proper’ official race, per se, until I joined college. It was in college that I realized that I could run longer than most of my classmates and faster, too.…
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It’s been raining here.
It’s February here and there is a cold wave sweeping through most of the eastern United States. And it’s been raining. I don’t quite remember having so much rain in February or perhaps I am just one of those people who can’t remember a thing from the last year. “Oh God, it’s never been so…
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Running and other things…
I have been running quite a lot these days, to my standards, at least. I run anywhere from 20 to 35 miles every week. There is something about running that comes just so naturally to me. Or is it? As far as I can remember about me being a child, I hated walking and the…
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It’s been long…..
I can’t really say how many times I have started a blog and abandoned it, like a bitter memory. For one thing, I have always thought I could write. And I dabbled at it too, writing a few fictions and some other, getting some of them published. However, to think about it, writing has never…