Khoon Ka Badla Khoon

I think we all are well aware of the CEO lynching news story by now. I term it as a news "story" as it is just a story for all the news channels. This is what our educated Industry Minister Mr Oscar Fernandes has to say on the matter Read it here.

So after reading this news article, I was convinced that Congress is really missing the CPI and the left parties, so they themselves have taken up this task. And moreover correct me if I am wrong, isn't this a case where a person "DIED" it really doesn't matter to me if he / she was a CEO, or a laborer, how can Mr Oscar Fernandes explain the death of a father / son / husband this way, what lesson should his family learn from this incident, track down the main culprit who was behind provoking and kill him ? Are we living in a civilized society ? Is this the way a civilized society functions ?

I will buy that argument Mr Fernandes, biut then you have to buy a lot of my arguments:

1) If I kill you, and then come up with the funda that "this is a lesson for all the netas, to behave themselves or they would be shot naked"
2) You move around in a car, you stay in a lavish bunglow, your son / daughter goes to premier school / college, now if somebody kills you, and comes up with the funda " This is a lesson for all the people who are driving a car, living in a posh bunglow and whose children go to premier schools / colleges"

There can be n number of similar arguments. Congress is wooing people left right and center for getting votes in the next elections. But if they didn't knew something, I just want to make them realize that these are all petty issues, everybody would forget them, like everybody forgot the Arushi Murder case, but Terrorism, Inflation and Communal violence are some cases which is eating up the "aam janta" . However I know that a lot of things are responsible for inflation, but still UPA will have to bear the heat for it.

Mr Fernandes (AKA Loser): Please get some brains, and if you do not have the grey matter then please keep your mouth shut, or just read my argument number 1

Good Videos

I saw the following video on this blog, its nice see it

'Come in, 007' said M
'Its good to see you back'

Just started reading the new Bond Novel " Devil May Care" by Sebastian Faulks (writing as Ian Fleming). Heard that this is a good one, and me being a Die Hard fan of James bond cant miss it!

Also bought: Every Second Counts by Lance Armstrong, Naxalite Movement in India by Prakash Singh, What I tak about when I talk about running by Murakami

Updates....

Its been a long time since I have posted something here, yes I have the same old excuses which everybody has. Work was keeping me busy, and when I was at home, I just wasnt in a mood to look at my laptop. I guess 9 hrs in office was more than enough.

So some updates: I have ordered new shoes (Yay!) this time they are Asics Gel Nimbus 10, and they are for Nuetral feet, lately I visited the doctor and I was told that my feet are no longer over pronating, maybe the styule of running has goit corrected over the period of time, and I was surprised that "I" was wearing the wrong shoes!!!

The second thing that I would be possessing soon is the Garmin ForeRunner 205, well its a gadget which looks like a watch, but actually is a GPS, which can really he;lp you in training for a marathon, as it gives you your speed, the distance you have run., the amount of calories burnt and other statistics. Would be getting both these things in the last week of this month, so I am pretty excited about them !!

The running aspect wasnt very great in the last couple of weeks, I have been getting this pain in my heel pretty often, and had a bad stomach infection, so my weekday runs were okay, but the weekend long runs were pretty screwed up. So this week I plan to rest most of the time, so that I am ready for a 35K on the weekend.

More after the runs!

Training Week-4

This weekend my training schedule says I have to run 32K, never ran so much on a single day in training, I have run a 52K Ultra, but then that was on "the" marathon day, we have whole lot of different factors on that day, the enthu level, the Janta running around you. But this would be different, running 32K means that we would be running close to 3.5 hrs.

And with the uncertain Bangalore rains, I domnt know how it will turn out to be. So I am tensed for this week's 32K, but I am determined!

Running Log

Yesterday was a busy day in office, I came home, and wasn't in a mood to run, largely because, I had this weird pain in my heel and knee, so thought would take a day's break so I am ready for the weekend long run. But then I started to get bored, even Rathi had to go somewhere out to meet his old friends. Started seeing some running videos on Youtube (two of them are posted below). and in a matter of 20 minutes I was in my running shoes and shorts ready to go. I realized that running has become an integral part of my weekday evenings. This is my time, you think about a lot of things, sort out the hassles, at work, not at work and then chalk out the plans for the next day. And even if you are not doing any of these things it is a lot soothing. Talking about Weekends, those are generally the long runs with my runner friends, and man how much I love them, no matter what happens, even if I sleep at 2:30 am I am up at 5:15 to run.

Coming back to yesterday I completed around 4K and then the pain in the heel started to get worse, I wanted to run more, 4K is nothing when it comes to a decent time in Mumbai marathon, maybe I am not pushing my body to the limit. So I went on running for another 2K and then I thought that maybe I should stop, this pain in the heel can get me grounded for weeks. And this was the point when I realized , that what is my greatest fear? Yes you guessed it right, not able to run. I have met some of my friends in RFL, who were runners, I mean who used to run, mentally they are still runners, but some nasty injury got them grounded forever, what if that happens to me, what would I do ? Not being able to run would be something like not beimng able to breathe for me. I know I thought a little too hard yesterday, but then I wasn't wrong an injury could sabotage all my plans for the Mumbai marathon and Ultra. So I stopped, "walked" back home, switched on the TV and used an ice pack on my legs and my aching heel.

Surprisingly I didn't have any pain in my heel this morning, which I never expected ? Is it the magig of the ice pack ? or is my body just getting used to the new training levels, Well I wont dig much into it now, but I am happy that my legs are back to normal. Today is the rest day, have to run 21K tomorrow at GKVK.