Day - 87 to Day - 100

Entry for 12/04/2013 to 12/17/2013    ---  Alright finally I'm here to update... I changed my shift to accommodate swimming, but that left me with very little time for anything else... Okay that's not entirely true... I've had enough time to play my Facebook game Criminal Case.... Had spent significant time on it, but been keeping away from writing the blog... A cold wave of the winter hit my city, that hampered my morning routine and doesn't prove to be conducive for running.... I managed only 4 days of running since December 1st.... But ensured that i kept swimming.... I swam for 13 days in total (this is till 21st).... Let me tell you this.... I can do freestyle now.... couple of weekend days i spent more than 3hours on each day and that really helped me get rid of my fear for water.... I regret that i didnt write the blog regularly, it would have been a nice jorney from those initial days when i was so bad and scared in just a 4feet of water.... Now i ca float freely, do a little bit of breast stroke, but cant synchronize my legs with hands... I find this stroke very relaxing.... I can do a freestroke well, legs and hands are in control, and i cover good distance... But breathing is still a problem, i can cross the width of the pool in one breath... but for crossing the length need at least one stop to take breath.... Cant bring my head up to take breath or exhale in water yet.... hoping to do this soon... Have broken food rules few times, may be a little more frequently that the normal days... But the over all adherence has been fair... All in all when i checked my weight at the end, i have lost 5kgs... I'm pretty happy with this number... But this wasnt the real target, I'm miles better compared to my lifestyle 3 months ago... I complete two 10ks in Marathons and did 10k on my own 3 times... Increased my distance and improved my time for 10k well... I'm happy with my own progress, but i do see lot of things i could have done.... All in all i would deem the experiment a success... I'm going to continue the same.... this time may be with a little bit more vigour... Right now on a 2 week vacation to my hometown... where I'm constructing a house for my parents... This would be done in 15 days.... Here to love and show hospitality means to feed someone to the point of killing them then and there... So I'm certain I'll put on some weight by the time I'm back to the town when I live... So I'll restart the experiment again from January 6th 2014.... Hopefully without putting on too much weight... Planning to continue running and swimming... Hoping to add Cycling once my weight goes below 90... Lets see when i can do it... Looking forward for the next 100 days and to get more healthy... Lets see how this goes...

Day - 86

Entry for 12/03/2013--- Okay the Swimming day !!!! slept late but wokeup early to start swimming, there is a 4feet pool in my office campus... its been there for 5years i never set my foot anywhere near it... but starting today i want to spend sometime with this beautiful aquatic creature... so went to office at 8am, put on my new swimming costume, with new swimming goggles, headband and an upper and lower swimming costume to cover my gigantic being... i did my first swimming lesson... Boy did I suck really bad... i tested the patience of my friend who was trying to teach me the first lesson of swimming, FLOATING... i was so bad at it... its very hard to override the hardwired instinct that tells u that u r drowning and screms at u to find solid ground... after many attempts i couldnt do what her asked me to successfully, and everytime i rushed to reach the ground, i hurt my leg... both my legs have cramps now... its a little embaressing that all this happend in 4feet of water ... but hey I'm glad to have tried it and wont be giving up easily... i have bigger plans with swimming, hopefully i can learn to do it in next 3 months... so will take rest tomorrow and start swimming again from the day after... lunch had 4 thin flat bread with cauliflower curry, had a spinach dosa with potato salad in the evening, no dinner... looking forward for a good night's sleep...

Day - 85

Entry for 12/02/2013  --- there arent a lot of pains, so thats good... went to office, took my medal, wokeup around 9am... ate a lot of fried rice in the afternoon with chicken... didnt eat anything for dinner, wasnt hungry at all... a slow day... nothing much to update... starting swimming tomorrow... Tomorrow is the first lesson... excited about it...

Day - 84

Entry for 12/01/2013 --- Race day!!!! Despite of my best efforts couldnt get enough sleep last night, and before the race tried to run a little to see how my back was holding up, it wasnt very promising, i havent run well for the last 2 weeks owing to ankle pains and fear of an impending ankle injury... so lot of negetives going into the race, anyway i started the race with 1300 other people, so in that rush you have to run... so i started running, everything seemed to settle down and there were no pains atleast not in unbearable proportions, so I continued to run for 2 or 2.5 kms, when the most unexpected and stupidest of all reasons stopped my run... my shoe lace on my left foot was loose... it was danglish from left to right, i ignored it for a while, but it presents the danger of a fall plus every one running past me was telling me about it, so ultimately i had to stop... get it tied again and walk for few moments so that the heaviness in my legs can wear off before i strat running, also had to take loo break... so i wasted about 5mins for all this... surprisingly my ankles didnt hurt... i guess it was good decision to rest for few days... or it might just be my laziness talking either way, i was doing well, running more and walking less compared to my previous attempt on october 6th... The crowd support was amazing that also kept me going... So i finished with a time of 97mins... 7 mins above the target i had in mind but i'm happy with it... considering all the negatives I'm happy with the time... now the target is to train harder and get inside 90mins... will try it out... post the race had a breakfast of a sadwich, fruit juice and a couple of bananas and plenty of water... didnt wanted to stay home and laze around on the bed, so went out for a big lunch in the afternoon, had fish, chicken and prawns with flour made flat bread and rice flour pancakes and a lot of buttermilk... then went out for shopping with my friends for a laptop... in the evening had a team dinner, where i had only a little bit of starters and desert... winding up the day slept early... REST tomorrow :) :)... was a good day...

Day - 83

Entry for 11/30/2013 ---  slept till 2:30pm... had a long long sleep, well deserved... woke up couple of times in between when my back ache soared, but felt better than last night after that lengthy sleep.... Icing on the cake was that my lunch was already prepared, so had lunch and stayed on bed all afternoon and the evening just to make sure i don't aggravate my back... Had Rice with yellow Lentil stew all day for lunch and dinner with some scrambled eggs... Carbs build up in my body must be good now... but I'm not sure how my body will react tomorrow... I'm scared of doing some damage during the run... but cant give up on the 10k... it all seems so much of a cliche... anyway looking forward for tomorrow, not sure if i can realistically achieve my 90mins target, but will try my best....

Day - 82

Entry for 29/12/2013 --- Wanted to take leave from office today and just rest to get my back pain in control... but as fate would have it, got a call from some rare visit to my office, so went in 2hrs early... and ended up working for 12hrs... :( :(  ... still feeling the pain at the end of the day, have to be on bed entire day tomorrow to have any chance of running on Sunday... Sleepin very late hope to sleep till afternoon of tomorrow... Food had kind of 2 lunches, didnt have any dinner, guess had an orange...