Make a difference - Donate and help fight Cancer

This year I am supporting the Sudha Mehta Cancer Foundation, this trust is started by a freind and I have closely seen the kind of work they are doing. The money received from the donation is used to buy Cancer medicines for the poor and needy. A lot of people in our country cannot afford the Cancer treatment, this charity works with them and provides help to them

I am planning to run the Standard Chartered Mumbai marathon 2013 in this season                              

I have been training hard for this event and hope to achieve my goal this year.

If you want to support the idea of running for a cause, then I would request you to please donate Rs 50 for every Kilometre (or more!) that I run, this would make a huge difference. 

Also if you wish to donate please reply to this. So that I am able to track the donations and send you the receipts.

Since it is a new trust, so the payment gateway still needs to be incorporated. However you can initiate a wire transfer or deposit in the bank account or handover the cheque to me.

All Donations are tax exempted, I will mail you the reciept for the donation made.

Please mail / call me if you wish to donate, would send a mail with the donation procedure. 

SCMM 2012

So, with the 1 mile time trial today I started training for SCMM 2012. This is going to be a lot more fierce as compared to last year. Butyeah I am excited about it. The Mumbai Marathon would be a special one for me, the people close to me know the reason for it being special one!

The fight that began 4 years back, still holds, to do my personal best in Mumbai.

here I come, putting my best effort ever.....

Hatheli main hain kayi garmiyan... junoon sakht hai.....

You have to forget your last marathon before you try another. Your mind can’t know what’s coming

~Frank Shorter~ American Olympic gold medalist for marathon

Kaveri Trail Marathon got over last Sunday, and I was there to witness the event. This was the first KTM where I didnt run, but was there to cheer up my buddies! Prateek did fantastically and tamed the trail finally, I guess he is at peace with KTM now, it has been bothering him for some time :-) Congrats champ!!!

Pankaj, Priyankar, Nari, Vasu, Rishi, Partha did well as usual, how effortlessly they run the marathon, wish I could do that someday.

1st October 2011, starts my training for Mumbai marathon 2012, yes I did my PB last year, which wasnt that great timing, but here I am again standing at the start line of a new training program, with new hopes, new promises and new goals for this running year. To top it all I have a new coach this year!!! Introducing Dharam, he is back from US and did some kick ass training there, and now he is here to kick our asses :-)

Looking forward to the training, like last year, my pardner Meher is sailing with me on the same "sinking" boat!! :-)

This song has been playing in my head since some days now, and this is a perfect song for the start of the training season!

specially the lines:

"Hatheli main hain kayi garmiyan......."

Wish List

The thing which is on top of my wish list is a DSLR camera.
wanted to try my hands on it since a long time.....

Bel ka Sharbat

This post is inspired from Bel Juice

Oh the smell of Bel reminds me of all those summer holidays...
How much I miss bel juice, the smell of that yellow bel juice, with 3-4 ice cubes floating in it. I miss the North Indian summers, the smell of the desert cooler, the deafening noise of the summer cooler, Kahrbooja in breakfast, bel juice in supper and cricket in the evenings.....

I miss them, that also makes me realize, I am old now :( 

And life moves on......

So I guess the high from the Mumbai marathon is gone now, thanks to the couple of kilos I have gained after the marathon in the last 15 days. I weigh a little more, and that has helped me in keeping me grounded.

But the good news is we (Meher and I) have got back to our 55-60 km weekly mileages. The plan going forward is staying marathon fit and doing a good timing in the sunfeast 10K. I have been thinking of what marathons to run this year as well. I am not at all motivated to do a full marathon at KTM or a 50 Km or more at the Bangalore Ultra, having run 50 km in all the previous editions of the bangalore Ultra, I am not at all motivated to run on that trail again. I would like to bring the marathon numbers to just 2 per year.

So this year it looks like that I would be doing a half in KTM 2011, maybe a 25 km in The Bangalore Ultra 2011, and then bike with Meher, if she plans to do a 50 there!

"Zindagi bhi kya nasha hai dost, jab chadhta hai to pooch mat kya aalam hota hai "