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Tackling Diwali – 4In the concluding series let us touch upon a few miscellaneous points and also how to recover post Diwali. – Drink plenty of water during the day. Most sweets and savories are devoid of water and quite dry. In order to metabolise it, water is drawn...

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,...

I spent the weekend of April 27 / 28, 2013 in my ancestral village in Thanjavur District of Tamil Nadu, South India. On Monday evening, I had occasion to understand the ceremony of TheeMudhi. Literally Fire- Walking. Or walking across on flaming hot coal embers. About 50...

As many of you know YouTooCanRun has embarked on a program titled ‘Sofa to 5K’ The aim of this program is the get folks who are sofa sitters to start running 5K. So here is a story of how 4 ladies from my Housing apartment in Mumbai, called Arunodaya ran ( rather...

In most Running Forums there is considerable debate about how accurate the Garmin can be. Often Runners end up challenging Event Organisers over the course distance by pointing out the numbers recorded on their Garmin devices. It is commonly accepted that the Garmin cannot be...

I spent the last 3 days at the SCMM Expo and got a very good ground level feel of things.  I thought I will share my summary thoughts on this post. I went there originally to help Amit B Sheth with his stall to sell Tshirts for RUHI but also ended up manning the stall of Rahul S...

    Background The death of Police Constable Subash Tomar in New Delhi in the #DelhiGangRape demonstrations is now almost certainly being attributed to a Cardiac Arrest. Various news media are carrying reports of the cause of death being Cardiac in nature and not...

The winter of 2012 finds Mr Surendra Desadia preparing to run his second Half Marathon. He has started well in time, by the month of Sep and has ramped up his training and mileage quite nicely.  He has been running through the year on the treadmill at Cardiac Rehab and this has...