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Tackling Diwali – 3One term – Appropriate choices Another aspect of managing Diwali excesses is to make the appropriate choices in what we choose to ingest. Not all sweets / savories are created equal. And it pays to know them a little closely and avoid those that are...

Tackling Diwali – 2Two words. Portion & Spacing Here’s why. Portions: This is quantity and is pretty simple to understand. Meaning if you eat more you will gain more weight. Not counting the acidity So you must eat less rather than more to keep your weight in...

Tackling Diwali – 1As runners we all want to lose weight. We also know that if we lose weight we will be able to improve our running times. Besides looking svelte in those running shorts But on the other hand we love food and with festivals all coming one after the other,...

A very Happy Dassera to all of you. All of us know that there is a lot of mythological significance behind the festival and most of it revolves around the triumph of good over evil. Thus it is also called Vijaya Dashami…the Victorious Tenth day. Most of the stories are lost...

Marathon Training Workshop at Panjim –  Goa The Marathon Training Workshop conceived by YouTooCanRun held its second workshop at Panjim Goa. In a first time initiative, the Vasco Da Gama Sports Club, organizers of the Goa River Marathon invited the faculty of YouTooCanRun...

YouTooCanRun is organizing together with Vasco Sports Club and ESA the Marathon Training Workshop in Panaji, Goa for the benefit of the running community there. It is scheduled for Sunday, Oct 21st and is to be held at the prestigious Black Box at the Kala Niketan Academy. Here...

Generally from time to time each one of us receive emails that talk of various ‘superfoods’ Many runners who have read the book Born to Run by Chistropher Mcdougall  have also got acquainted with Chia seeds in that book.  Most emails will talk of some exotic fruits or...

    From all the feedback of my last post of the Hare and the Tortoise, one thing clearly emerged. Everyone wants to run like a hare with the pacing plan of a tortoise :-). Sorry guys you were born on a wrong continent. But everyone agrees that one should pace properly...

Now that we know, from the earlier post, what Pace is..let us try to understand why this is so important on Race day. Runners believe that in the parable of the Hare and the Tortoise the Tortoise won the race because it had a better pacing plan in place. Most new runners,...

    This is something that used to confuse me a lot when I was a new initiate into the world of running. It helps to clarify these two terms and also why we talk in terms of Pace rather than Speed when we run. Most newcomers to running come from a background where their...