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October 31, 2005
Marathon Training Schedule
I am going to miss the Delhi Marathon, Mumbai Marathon because I didn’t do enough training. Now I don’t want to miss the Chennai Marathon which is happening in Feb, so last week I sat and prepared a training schedule for myself. Well I did my first run last week and fell sick after that, I will wait for another day or two to get better and will start continuing my training. Not sure if I am going to follow it fully, but defenetly spend enough time to put this together. I got the schedule from Hal Higdon and modified it a bit.
Posted by Sam at 12:16 AM | Comments (1)
October 30, 2005
Sick!
This is the second time I had to get admitted to a hospital in the last six months. I have no clue what I am doing wrong here. This time it’s food poisoning. Had a really bad Thursday night, nothing stayed in my stomach and even if I drink water my stomach was hurting as hell. In the morning I couldn’t even walk properly, because of my stomach ache.
I decided to head to the hospital and get some drip to get some fluid in my body. The doctor prescribed some antibiotics and some pain killer and told me that this can be because of food poisoning and asked me to be on liquid diet and asked me to go home. I am little bit surprised. I am thinking, dude I can’t even walk, I can’t take anything orally and you want me to go home and take some tablets?? Then I asked him if taking drips will help, then he is like “yeah if you want to get admitted in the hospital we can give you drips”. Aren’t these guys suppose to tell me the easy way out of my pain??
Anyways… Got admitted and got everything thru drips for a day and I am back to normal, still on liquid diet for the next 3 days.
Got to be careful eating outside and also had to find a good hospital!
Posted by Sam at 12:26 AM | Comments (2)
October 17, 2005
Bheemeshwari Camping Trip - Bangalore Weekend Getaway
Some of my friends were talking on Thursday about the weekend and all of a sudden we decided to do a wilderness camping, but unfortunately no one had much information about wilderness camping. I looked at some of the books I had and searched on the internet. But looks like everyone was talking about camping but no one seems to provide enough information about were to camp, where to get permission and stuff. Anyways we decided to just go there and find out.
On Saturday morning we set out for camping, we reached Muthathi and got hold of a local guy, he showed us some place were we can camp. But those places were all really dirty. We decided to look around some more. And we went to Bheemeshwari which was another 5 kilometers from Muthathi. There was a Cauvery fishing camp there. We talked with the watchman there and he told us that there is a secluded place 2 kilometer from there and we can probably camp there. We drove for another 2 kilometer and we found a really nice place. We pitched out tents there, but after that we found another really nice place very close by, so we just carried our tent to that place. It was a picture perfect campsite.
We meet some local people in the night and we had a small dancing section and a small game section with the boys. It was fun, because we couldn’t speak their language. But still we had fun.
In the night we spotted a fox, which was for some reason just watching our tent from the bush. There were supposed to be elephants also in this place. But unfortunately or fortunately we didn’t spot any.
To camp in any forest you need to get permission from the District Forest officer. Unfortunately I had no clue where to get permission, all I knew was I had to get permission. We also followed the ‘leave no trace behind’ policy.
It was really fun. I felt really bad to come back in just a day. I would love to do more camping, so if you guys know any good place close to Bangalore please let me know.
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