Day - 59

Slept late as usual... around midnight... Woke up at 5.15am, went for the jog... feeling a little discomfort in my body, not sure why... i only walked yesterday... anyway... started my jog with the rusty feeling in my limbs, pushed forward after a kilometre things settled down, but i knew my energy reserves were very low... So kept my pace low. Winter is kicking in, the good thing with winter is sun doesn't come up until 6.30am and i love running in the twilight... but the bad thing is that the air is thick and breathing needs extra effort. Today felt this effect clearly, had to breath quite a few times with my mouth... So after completing 2.7kms, i wanted to go further... so i went up to my 3rd best point, which is nearly 3.8kms... So finished that, then stopped my run. By now i was exhausted, This was the most exhausting run till date. So i guess I'm due for a rest day. Might just get some rest tomorrow and sleep well.... OK Food...

Breakfast  -- An Apple
11.30am    -- A Tea
Lunch        -- 3 flat bread with chickpeas in a gravy. Few raw carrots
Evening     -- Upma ( semolina flour snack)
Dinner       -- An Orange

Not a bad day at all... Couple of cracks in this good day, During lunch got tempted and had 4 thin pieces of shallow fried potatoes. Before dinner had about 10gms of a sweet. Other than this no other distractions. Not proud of them, but couldn't control... Had to work a lot in last 2 days.... so will take rest tomorrow... GN

Day - 58

Woke up at 5.30am... slept at around midnight last night... so not a lot of sleep... went for the jog, yesterday while I was doing the 5kms, I noticed some discomfort in my right knee and it popped up a couple of times during the day. So I just wanted to take things slow today, but didn’t want it to be a rest day, so I walked for 6kms. Walked at varying speeds, 6kms took me 70mins, that's roughly 5kms per hour... not too good, but I guess its okay for a slow day. Came back home, slept for a couple of hours.... rushed to office. Now food,

Breakfast      -- Nothing, didn’t have time to eat breakfast
Lunch           -- Faltered a little bit here, was extremely hungry by lunch time, had 3 flat bread, with 
                          Brijal curry, then RICE!!!! Yeah had rice today, little bit of a sweet called Jilebi.

Evening       -- Tea
Dinner         -- 100ml milk with some corn flakes may be 50gms

So bit of a disaster during lunch, had a craving to go out and have some good lunch, but stopped myself that would have been a bigger disaster. Anyway, not an ideal day, but was feeling a little weak of body and heart so lunch was a result of that. Also been under some stress at work and also in personal life... that might be another reason for seeking the comfort of a full stomach..... Anyway need to do a longer run tomorrow to redeem myself to some extent...

Day - 57

Yeeee...haaaawwww.... Woke up at 5.45am... Went for the jog... Was feeling a little down and lazy... didnt feel like i will run for long... Back to my tattered phone, so no running apps. Set up my timer to 35 daunting minutes and started my run..  the rusty feeling in the limbs is still intact during the first kilometer of the run... Ran slow as usual, after 21mins reached my usual 2.7kms mark... This is where it started to get enjoyable... was feeling pretty tired but my breathing was in a good shape and in my control, so pushed forward... pushed for a uphill climb that comes on my way everyday, after that it was 25mins, wanted to continue atleast till 30mins, by 30mins i reached nearly a good hanlfway back to my starting point, once the 30mins was over wanted to get to a temple on the way, then wanted to reach 35mins, once that was done, i was close to my starting point so wanted to get there :) ... this way with smaller targets in mind, i ran both ways and reached my starting point .... Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... But didnt stop there because i wanted to reach the 5km mark, which i missed by 80meters last time... so i kept going to my previous best point and then went 100 meters ahead just to make sure i dont miss the 5km mark this time... All this took a few seconds more than 42mins... So here I am today with my best distance and feeling ecstatic... was in no mood to do 5km today, but it kind of happened and i'm happy that it did... Just walked back and forth in my street (about 500mts or so) to just cool down... some leg pains might creep up by the evening... but i'm very happy... Easily i must have done a 5km run today... will consult my oracle-the google maps in some time... Didnt eat any breakfast, the sweets i had last night continued to haunt me, though a bad choice, skipped breakfast... Work shift has changed so i will be getting home only by 11pm every night, so this will put some pressure on my morning routine... to get into the habit, i slept for a couple of hours then got to office... will follow this same routine everyday from now on... Ok food

Breakfast --- Nothing
Lunch      --- Theree very thin flat bread, with 2 hard boiled eggs and gravy
Evening   ---Tea
Dinner     --- 4 slices of whole wheat bread with jam and some milk

Read an article yesterday, it talks about weight loss and running... Summary is when you are running and want to loose weight through it, you have to create a big enough energy defficincy between your intake and output by keeping your rest hours and other daily activities the same... So will try to control my intake and remember that on an average i'm spending just 100calories per km...No body pains as of now... have to see how it will be tomorrow morning... GN

Day - 56

Entry for 11/03/2013   ----   Wokeup at around 5.45am, went for the jog... wanted to take it slow... so ran just to my usual 2.7km distance... Ran today with a friends Iphone. It had a running app in it... So was able to exactly know few details... The 3km point which i used to assume as 3kms turns out to be 2.7kms... i guess its alright... ok so here are the details given by that app... Its pretty neat... for the 2.7km i took 21mins, with an average speed of 7.6kms per hour, highest speed of 10.2kms per hour... burnt 260 Calories.... thats even less than a coke bottle or a packet of chips i guess... puts things in perspective doesnt it :) .... so i dont need to feel too good about my run everyday... coz at the end of the day, i'm not burning enough fuel... The app showed that my starting and finishing speeds were high and my speed inbetween was less... which i guess is good... it also shows elevations and other things on your path... all in all in reminded me that 20mins of run per day doesnt create high enough enegry deficit... so i need to think of more ways to spend calories... Glad that i did this... ok so food...

Had rice pancakes all day... stopping these from today... Also had an orange today... Also as it was festival day had a couple of sweets... regret having these babies... but hey it was the biggest festival of the year... :)

Will need to do good enough run to burn more calories from tomorrow...

Day - 55

As planned today was the rest day... slept late... and was sleep deprived for a while... so slept till 11.30am today .... wokeup at my usual 5.30am but forced myself back to sleep... Didnt do much... had some writing work... couldnt get on with it... for some reason i couldnt start it... tried all day but it didnt work out... anyway didnt get anything done... took a couple of kilometers walk in the evening... will run again tomorrow... Food....

Had an orange in the morning...
Had about 100 gms of corn boiled in water with some salt and chilli powder
Had the same in the evening
Dosa (the Rice Flour Pancake) in the evening...

Going to sleep now...

Day - 54

Entry for 11/01/2013  ---- Today was special, i did my best distance by far... and i never thought I would be able to do it.... Here is how it all went down... I wokeup at 5.00 am... went for the jog... kept my timer on 35mins, i thought of today but decided to run as lazily as i could and take Saturday as the rest day... So i started my run, with no intention of completing the 35mins... The initial rustyness in my limbs returned today... my run was slow... after i did my usual 3kms (2.8 according to Google maps).... i was feeling good and wanted to go on further... slowly i crossed all my best distance points and kept going... the discomfort in my left ankle kept popping up every now and then but wasnt serious... so slowly i reached the point where i start all my runs from... then i went 100 or 150 meters further...i felt like i could go forever... but was cautious enough to stop before i ran some stupid distance and injured myself... So i stopped and started walking back to my home which is now just 400meters away... the adrenalin rush started to go down, and the pain in my ankle soared high... it settled down after putting it on some ice... so all is good now... and that distance according to google maps is 4.8kms !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not far away from 5km mark... but holding up this distance again would be very difficult for me... so it took me 42mins to finish the 4.8km mark... pretty damn slow, but hey i did better than my best... and thats what running is for me... And i think the Rice flour pancakes did have something to do with the energy i found i had this morning... Okay so 4 days of good runs... i WILL take a rest day tomorrow... It was a traditional day at office... so went in a traditional attire... Food...

Breakfast        ---    A 2egg omlet with some salt and chilli powder and an Orange

Pre-lunch        ---    Tea

Lunch             ---    5 flat bread with Cauliflower (i may have gotten a little carried away with that good run this morning)

Evening           ---   Poha (the flaked rice snack)

Dinner              ---  Met with someone after a while so went for a coffee and i had a milk shake :( ...

The milkshake was sweet, but the discussion went down the sour road.... anyway... Slept a little late... no run tomorrow... got a lot of writing work thats been pending for long... no classes in the weekend, so will finish this work over the weekend hopefully....

Day - 53

Entry for 10/31/2013  --  Woke up at 5.45am... didnt have my alarm on... but i guess the habit of waking up everyday woke me up around my usual time... went for the jog, went pretty late around 6.45am... did my 3km distance, Wasnt in a mood to strain my self as i already did my best distance yesterday... But something interesting today was that my run started at a high pace, not sure why... and i didnt have the usual inertia in my limbs... it was all pretty smooth and ran faster than usual for 1Km or so then went to my normal slow pace... all in all a good run of 3km which took only 20mins... (usually it takes 23 mins)....

Breakfast   -- Had DOSA (made at home, its the Rice and lentils pancake i was planning to stop eating :( )
Pre-Lunch -- Tea

Lunch        -- An Egg sandwich made with a hard boiled eggs, layered between 2 slices of whole wheat bread, and a third slice seperated by boiled corn. No cheese.

Dinner       -- Again Dosa (The Rice and lentils pancake)

Not sure if i want to run tomorrow, been 3 good days of running... thinking about taking a rest day... will decide tomorrow...