Day -- 160

Entry for 07/30/2014   --    Slept around 3am yesterday... didnt wake up till 12:15 pm... went to office no running and no swimming... had a lunch of 5 flat breads with sprouts boiled in water and some spices... had 2 teas one in the afternoon and one in the evening... around 8 pm had 4 or 5 small balls of fried black bean dough.... not a smart choice... dinner had 4 flat breads again got sprouts boiled in watery gravy... late night had some dry fruits... going to bed... TV will be off from tomorrow... hoping to get my act together from tomorrow... Lets see how it goes...

Day -- 159

Woke up at 11 am... stupid thing i did last night didnt sleep till 5 am this morning... may be even slept later than 5 am... anyway no breakfast as i woke up late... went to the gym and ran on tread mill... wanted to do the best i could... did 2.5 km in 18 mins... for the first time cranked up the tread mill to 12 km/hr and managed to last for about 3 mins... happy with that... lunch had 2 flat breads some rice, couple of vegetarian curries in very small quantity, some sweet dish... had a tea... evening went to eat something and the cafeteria didnt have anything... so that screwed me... as we had to go out of the office and eat a lot fried snacks... a  slip up and that screwed my day... need to keep up my running routine... got a 10 km race coming up on 10th August and my first half marathon on 24th august... if only I can just keep my damn mouth and glutton in control... it would be great... time for bed now...

Day -- 158

Entry for 07/28/2014   ---  Slept like a baby last night...Slept for 10 hours... no breakfast as i woke up late... went to the gym, did a recovery run on the treadmill... did 2.05 km in 16 mins... went to office had a lunch of 3 flat breads with some vegetarian curry don't remember what it was... had a couple of teas... evening had a 2 egg omelette with some bread... Didn't have any dinner ... came back home... got hungry later on and ate lot of dry fruits... kept watching TV till 5am in the morning next day... stupid thing to do... but somehow it went on this way.... anyway need to get some discipline into my day... will try 

Day -- 157

Entry for  07/27/2014 --- Here we are the first D day... woke up at 4.45 am... got ready and got to the race location 2 mins late... the crowd doing 10 km, 15 km and 21 km started off before i got there... i started 3 mins late... anyway started with my slow and usual rhythm... the start it self was a up climb... a gradual one thankfully... then there was a down slope and an immediate up slope... i didn't mind it much anyway... i was going pretty well... with usual speed... after 25 mins took a break as i had to empty my bladder which i couldn't do at the beginning of the race as I reached late... then went on with my usual walk run method of running.... there were no markers to indicate the distance completed.... also it wasn't an out and back race for 15 km... so it was difficult to understand how much i had covered... so i didn't know if i was running better than my previous race or not.... at one point felt like i was running more than 15 km... anyway... i did complete the 15 km distance in .... Drum rollllllssssss.... 1 hr 52 min and 44 seconds... so that's 113 mins.... 31 mins less than my previous 15 km race... that is amazing improvement at least for my standards...and the time taken per km was 7 mins and 30 seconds... that's my best speed in any race... couldn't have imagined better stats.... this has clearly gave me a boost to attempt my first half marathon.... I'm very excited about it now... very little leg pains... 15 km didn't feel a lot different than 10 km... so my legs aren't complaining... excellent day to be honest... during the run had water and a couple of bottles of energy drink... after the race was done had 2 bananas... Then got home ate an apple... took rest at home till afternoon... then had a lunch of 5 flat breads with cauliflower boiled in a thin curry sauce, some carrot dry curry and lentil stew.... evening went for a swim... did a slow 40 rounds... felt amazing that i didnt feel any fatigue at all... wanted to eat well in the night... some protein as i normally do after a race... so had 4 pieces of spiced chicken cooked on indirect heat from burning coal... 5 flat breads made of wheat flour... and a mixed veg curry... slept around 11 pm... A great day... really happy... lets see if i can continue...

Day -- 156

Entry for 07/26/2014   --  Remember that i slept very late the day before and woke up around mid day... no breakfast... Lunch ordered from a nearby restaurant... ordered spiced fried chicken with rice and lentil stew and few boiled and shallow fried potatoes... heavy lunch for carbo loading... dinner ... wasnt hungry much... so had 3 small pomegranates... plenty of water... before dinner went to the pool just to get some movement in my body that's been resting uselessly for the past 2 or 3 days.... went to the pool and did only 22 rounds or 550 meters... enough to warm me up but not enough to really make me tired... slept around 12pm... excited about tomorrow... my first 15 km run after the one i did on march 30th... that time it took me 144 mins... hoping to do it this time under 120 mins... so that's 8 mins per kilometer...my best speed had been 8.3 mins per kilometer.... lets see how that goes... 

Day -- 155

Entry  for 07/25/2014  -- Dont remember what all i did on this day.... definitely no exercise as my Daily Mile log doesnt show any... definitely was depressed for some reason... dont remember why... same continued on Saturday as well... 

Day -- 154

Entry for  --  07/24/2014   --   Bad day... was feeling lazy all day... didnt go for running or swimming... ate heavy lunch... bad fried snacks for dinner... watching TV now after recharging it... not sure whats wrong... but i kind of have a feeling in my head... to Hell with all this... i'm sure i would get back to normal tomorrow... sometimes i wonder if i'm bipolar or something... will sleep now... 

Day -- 153

Entry for 07/23/2014  -- Wokeup around 9am.. went to office at 10.30am.. had a meeting at 12 afternoon... so managed only swimming in the available time, did 40 rounds in 35mins a lil slow... at 12 afternoon had a glass of milk with some normal cornflakes... lunch had 3 flat breads with a boiled chickpea flour dish... its weird i know... had no other option... had 3 teas in the day... had a lot of work pressure... so needed them teas... evening had a rice pancake and half of a mini veg burger... dinner -- had no plans of having dinner, but had to go with someone, so had some friend rice and a small flat bread with cauliflower... not a good day... atleast have got the satisfaction of finishing some long pending work at office...

Day -- 152

Woke up around 10 am... couldnt sleep last night till 2 am... papaya makes weird things happen in my stomach... so had some stomach ache till late night... had to get to office early for a meeting, went to the gym, ran 2.2 kms in 16 mins and 30 seconds... not fast enough... there was a lot of waiting for the tread mill and there is a 15 min limit per person, so had to stop after this, evening around 7.20 pm went for a swim, did 40 rounds in 30 mins... food - no breakfast... lunch 5 flat breads with mix veg curry, beans in spicy thin gravy and lentil soup  and a rice based sweet of 3 or 4 tea spoons... had a tea as well... evening had another tea... after the swim had a dinner of half chicken manchow soup, a fried chicken starter, a mushroom based dish, then 2 flat breads with 2 pieces of chicken in a curry... that screwed all the day's efforts... but after my swim was feeling a lil tired and was has some weird sensations in my back, so i always resort to chicken when this happens,... thats why had chicken today... anyway new day tomorrow need to buckle up... big race of 15km coming up this sunday....

Day -- 151

Monday its the rest day... last night was hungry after updating the blog entry, so had 2 small mangoes...slept around 1 am... slept very well, woke up at around 12 pm... went to office... no breakfast... lunch had 5 flat breads with Green Peas in a gravy, lentil soup, and little bit of soy... and a small piece of a sweet... had a tea as well... evening had a tea and ate Upma (the boiled semolina flour dish) ... dinner had 3 raw red dates and the remaining 40% of the papaya from last night... going to bed now... got a lot of work to do at office... will wake up early tomorrow and will try to fall into my regular routine... last one week has been pretty good... lets hope i continue...

Day -- 150

woke up early for a cycling ride to the near by hill like i did last week... woke up at 5.45 am... went for the ride... did 25 kms almost... took me a good 2 hrs the whole ride... felt great... after yesterday's amazing swim this was great... after the ride had a breakfast of Poha (the flat rice dish)... before that after reaching the mid way point had 5 or 6 biscuits.. had a bread with a spiced potato mash coated with chickpea flour and deep fried... not a great choice i know... lunch had 5 flat breads with carrot dry curry and chickpeas in watery sauce.. evening went for a swim... did only 36 rounds i.e. 900 meters... too many irritating people in the pool... couldnt do more... dinner 6 raw red dates, an apple and 60% of a small popaya... feeling hungry still may have something else before i sleep... may be a small mango.... 

Day -- 149

Ate a mango before i slept last night... unplanned but i was hungry... slept very late around 3 am... woke up at 11 am... had a lunch of 5 whole wheat flat breads with kidney beans in thin watery gravy, cauliflower dry curry with some lentil stew... wasnt heavy, but wasnt too little either.. then went for running to the gym, did 3 kms in 23 mins... there was one break after 2 kms as i wanted to do 1 km with high intensity... did that last km in 6 mins and 39 seconds... my fastest so far... most of that duration i was running at 10km per hour... then went for swimming... unexpectedly pushed my self and did 140 rounds with no break... thats 3.5 kms... this is crazy my best so far... i did do 204 rounds once before but with a 15 min break... the continues number of rounds i did earlier was 122... and this 140 rounds means i did the Ironman triathlon distance without a break... its still just a 4 feet pool and i was kicking the wall on each round's beginning so those 2 dont exactly make it 3.5 kms in open water...but i will still take it... for someone who didnt knew swimming just 6 months ago... I'm happy where i have reached... i couldnt get this kind of dramatic improvement with my running... may be with all the planned runs i may get better at it... lets hope so... okay dinner had 2 small pieces of carrot, a small mango and one pomegranate... got a long cycling run tomorrow... will sleep now... good day...  

Day -- 148

Wokeup at 8.15am... getting better at this... went for the run did 3.05 kms in 23mins... pretty quick compared to my usual speed... did 2kms of it in 14mins and 30seconds... rest i did after 1min walking break... then swam for 35mins did 42 rounds or 1.05kms... breakfast after the running and swimming had 2 hard boiled eggs with salt and chilly powder... lunch had 5 flat bread with cauliflower in thin gravy, lentil soup and 3 small pieces of boiled potato in gravy... a small piece of sweet... had 3 teas in the whole day... evening had a rice pancake covered by puree of spinach... for dinner had an apple and a small pomegranate...will sleep soon... not a bad day...

Day -- 147

Woke up around 10am this morning,,, little better compared to my recent days... went for running at 11.30am.. did 3 kms in 25mins... 15mins 30 seconds 2kms and the rest was walk and run... then went to the pool, swam 40 rounds... which is 1km... had a lunch of 5 thin whole wheat flat breads, with lentil soup, mix veg curry and spinach and corn curry with a small portion of sweet... had a tea... evening had another tea, around 8pm was very hungry so had a big glass of milk with some corn flakes... dinner had a carrot and a small pomegranate... will sleep soon... getting back on track slowly... and been going to office by my bicycle for the past week... its 500 meters from my place, so its not a big deal to mention it.. hardly 1km per day... feeling good about today... 

Day -- 146

Entry for - 07/17/2014   ---   Woke up late... went for swimming... managed 40 rounds (1km) in 30mins ... thats all the time i had... Having a lot of problem with gas formation after swimming a km or so... reading about ways to avoid it... Lunch had 5 flat breads with lentil soup, chick peas in gravy and mashed vegetables in gravy... a friend brought a nice home made sweet... had some of it.. had one tea in the evening... also had some fried green lentil dough dish... that screwed my day... but couldnt resist it... dinner had 3 pieces and raw dates, an orange and a very small mango... it was so small... going to sleep now...

Day - 145

Woke up late.... couldnt sleep early... Man is a creature of habit and the sleep time of mine has changed to 3am... so cant seep to be able to sleep... and keeping my TV on doesnt help either... no exercise... lunch 5 flat breads with Soy curry and boiled potato in a gravy a small piece of a sweet... couple of teas in the evening... then dinner fruit plate with 5 cookies... not a great day... not very bad either... mediocre days... need to rise above...  This is the last 30 odd days activity sheet since i started using Dailymile... recent cycling increased the kilometers to some decent numbers... lets see how the rest of the days go... 35 days to go till the end of 180... got to ram it up...

Day -- 144

Wokeup late around 11.30am, watched football match last night... was supporting Argentina... but they lost :( :( :(  ... had a lunch of 5 whole wheat flat breads with green beans... evening had a couple of teas... after lunch had a smaller bournville chocolate... dinner had 4 flat breads with mix veg curry and a little cheesy curry of some sort... bad choice that one... no exercise monday is the rest day.... got races lined up... 27th july doing a 15kms race... 10th august doing a 10 or 15km mountain trail race... 24th doing my first Half Marathon,... in a different city... hope my body can take all the toll.... excited about the upcoming days... 30day challenge was a miserable failure... but not too worried about it... time for bed...

Day -- 143

Woke up at 6 am... went for the bicycle ride... didnt know the route, it was a way to the foot of a mountain and the terrain was rough... i managed to complete the distance.. it was in total 25 kms both ways... felt great to complete the distance... there were a lot of peaks and slopes... enjoyed it a lot... breakfast had 2 pieces of Idli ( a rice and black lentil steamed cake of sorts) and flattened rice dish called Poha... a small piece of cake and a sweet... big breakfast... was hungry... lunch had a chicken fried rice.. evening went for swimming... swam for 1.5kms in 1hr... dinner had a mango with some dry fruits... got to watch the world cup final few hours... hoping to see Argentina win... lets see how it goes... may have some other fruit if i feel hungry or may be a carrot... feeling good about today... though had some food i shouldnt ideally be having... workout went well... happy about that...

Day -- 142

Wokeup a little earlier than usual... had work to catch up with... so went to office.. wanted to swim in the evening... but couldnt get time.. played TT for an hour... ate a lot of unsavory shit... totally shitty day... got some work done at work the only positive thing of the day... anyway going to sleep now... tomorrow planning to do a long cycle ride tomorrow... lets see how it goes...

Day -- 141

Entry for 07/11/2014 -- slept very late last night about 4am... wokeup at 12.30pm... had a lunch of rice with lentil stew, batter fried vegetables and a double egged omelet... had a tea in the evening... around 8pm went outside office to get my keys... and things got out of control and had a lot of fried stuff... no time for exercise today... before going to bed had some dry fruits... bad day... planing to play badminton tomorrow... lets see if i can pull things backand have some control over food... feeling pretty bad about the way things are going... failed miserably in my 100 days challenge... wasnt able to finish it ... i was far from finishing it... tomorrow is the 30th day... feels like i'm sliding down the slippery slope i'm so familiar with... need to pull my self back up... 

Day -- 140

Entry for  --  07/10/2014  --  again, football 2nd semi-final match... wokeup mid afternoon... had a big lunch rice with chicken and some greasy stuff... Couple of teas, dinner had a fruit plate... few dry fruits before bed... no exercise havent had the time... going to bed now...

Day -- 139

Entry for  07/09/2014  --  Went to the gym late morning around 11.30am courtesy of the football match last night... no breakfast, ran 2kms in 18mins... food is getting under control, not fully on track yet... need to keep pushing... 

Day - 138

Entry for  -- 07/08/2014   --- Woke up at 9.30am... went to the shop to get my cycle home... it was 8 to 9 kms away from my home... so rode the cycle back home... did ride it later on around my office building all in all did 10kms of cycling today... food out of control in a bad wway... dont know how to control this... lets see how i do with my new cycle....

Day -- 137

Entry for  07/07/2014  --  Monday pool closed... little bit pains in legs... Its not a big deal... didnt run... just took a nice rest day... food out of control still... Feels like i'm taking it all for granted... 

Day -- 136

Entry for - 07/06/2014 ---  Race day... woke up at 4.30 am... went for the run... it was a trail run on a hill... no proper road... lot of elevations and slopes... did my 10kms in 84 mins and 35 seconds... not bad considering that it wasnt the usual road... went swimming in the evening, did 1km... feeling great no pains at all... feels like i'm graduating to the half marathon distance... lets see... food no restrictions... ate lot of usual stuff...

Day - 135

Slept after 4am last night after watching 2 exciting football matches from world cup... woke up very very late... had a very nice relaxing sleep... woke up after 2 pm... had rice with lentil stew and shallow fried potatoes... tomorrow 10k race so carbo loading today... went for swim in the evening... swam 2.5 kms.... swimming after a while... after 5 days... nice relaxing day... will go for the run in the morning... enjoying an Argentinian win... just 5mins of stoppage time to go... sure they would defend the 1 goal they have... 

Day - 134

Entry for -- 07/04/2014    Was a holiday from work... slept till 11 am..... then just stayed at home till afternoon... then went to buy a bicycle... spent a reasonable amount to buy a good 21 geared cycle... then went to play Badminton with colleagues from office... played for 2 hrs... then went another couple of colleagues for bowling... did bowling for an hour... then went and watched the movie transformers - Age Of Extinction... as usual lot of noise and a lot of CGI... and little substance.... Ate noodles in the afternoon for lunch... dinner had a lot of bad stuff... did some cycling... watched both world cup soccer matches and slept very very late...

Day --- 133

Entry for  ---  7/3/2014... Alright... updating the day way past mid night... but nothing is there to update... was feeling tired and physically down today... and got a lot of work at office as well... so didnt do any exercise... and didnt eat right at all... going to play badminton tomorrow with friends... will see if i can run or swim tomorrow... its a holiday for me at work.. so should be nice to relax for a day... and buying a bicycle tomorrow... should be a good day... 

Day 117 to 132 Ratings ----- 0000000000000000000000

Alright ... This has been long overdue... Couldnt get enough time (sigh... got time to play my FB game .... talk about irony... need to set my priorities right...) ... Swimming going amazingly well... running not so well... seems very difficult to finish my running section of the 30 days 100 km running part... 50km of swimming is still possible... here is the statistics... Food highly out of control... everyday i try and everyday i fail with this at some point or the other...

Got a 10km run this Sunday... Ran 5kms today... Will try to update daily... the above stats were created by Dailymail website... well.... going to try my best to stay on track... lets see how it goes...