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...