Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Crysanthemums...
often called mums beautiful flowers and I can't resist myself from bying these every fall. So I bought some this year too. You can find them in severals colors other than just the traditional yellow. I bought 3 for $12 which I felt wasn't that expensive but I bought them from the expensive store (whole foods) :).
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Week # 7
Training-11/2/09-11/8/09 ::: Week # 7
Monday- off- relax and stretch
Tuesday- 4 miles easy
Wednesday- 4 miles easy
Thursday- Off- strength- train- crunches and push-ups
Friday- 5 miles easy
Saturday- Off- relax and stretch Sunday- 11 miles
Week 7 training was good but it was tough to finish 11 miles. next sunday is 8 miles and sunday after that is the race day excited and nervous too. Am not sure of any preparations though. Just going with Coach Tom's guidance. Lets see how the day goes.
Week # 6 & Poconos
contd...(week #)
...so madhu was concerned if I had the energy to do go. I assured him that I was completely ok and we can go.We went home had good breakfast and had a glimpse of Perfect Bride, charged the camera batteries had shower and started to Pocono's with all the Enthu and Energy I could have. I also made some upma to eat on the way.Drive to Pocono's was good. Most of the leaves on the tress had started turning brown and few of them already sheded. But when millions of tress are together the view was awesome. I took few pictures on the way to Pocono's. We had upma on the way to Pocono's so that we'll have some energy to walk around but I guess that wasn't enough.
When we reached there it was almost packed. We have parked the car in a metered parking lot and headed towards the crowd to see the market that was setup. Several items were being sold like food, hand made decorative items, t-shirts, beads, jewelry etc. We walked around looking at all the stalls. I almost bought one of the hand made decorative piece until I saw the price sticker. OMG it was way beyond my bugdet but the decorative frame was really cute. They have actually stuck some of the dried flowers and leaves on a sheet of paper and framed it and it was really cute.After walking around for sometime we both ended up at the information center to find out about the train timings. We got what we needed and having abrief look at the brochure we finally found out where to buy the tickets and headed towards the ticket counter. We both were standing in line to buy the tickets and we had an option to sit on regular car but madhu was interested in going in Kaboose. Forget to mention that while we were walking arround the stals we had some french fries and also something called potato pancake which was completely floating in oil. But somehow we both ended up eating it all :). We got into kaboose and I wasn't impressed much with it but I thought madhu made a right choice because it was very cold outside. So sitting in the kaboose which is a closed compartment of the train was good. Kaboose had limited tickets. So there were only three families including us. It was 45min ride through mountains. The train started from the village it would go 20min to another stop and return.The ride was very beautiful but I thought it would have been more colorful it we went somewhere 3rd week of september but you know what never mind. Everything was going good so far. We were on our way back to village where we started and thats when started my headache. It was mild but it was seriouly getting worse min by min. by the time we got down from the train whirlpool started in my head and I was so grumpy. I know it was because of the run and dehydration and to that was the culprit the potato pancake. We started heading towards home and Madhu sugessted me to take taylenol if its really worse.I thought may be I should take the tablet.Madhu bought me taylenol and a water bottle and we started from there. On the way we stopped at DD(Dunkin Donuts) for madhu's coffee and I used the rest room meanwhile. Madhu started making fun of me and he was asking if I would like to eat another portion of potato which was nothing but Hashbrowns I was like please I have no patience to laugh don't make me laugh. We started from DD and almost after 10mins drive I almost felt like throwing up and I asked Madhu to entertain by himself while I'll catchup on some nap which might help me feel better. I almost slept for an 1hr and I was better after that 1hr.I repented all the way till I got home for eating that junk food. I thought the day start good but didn't end good. But anyways we got to see the glimpse of fall colors for 2009. As always said to myself again never eat food thats too oily on an empty stomach :)
Training-10/26/09-11/1/09 ::: Week # 6
Monday- off- relax and stretch
Tuesday- 4 miles easy
Wednesday- 4 miles easy
Thursday- Off- strength- train- crunches and push-ups
Friday- 4 miles easy
Saturday- Off- relax and stretch Sunday- 10 miles
week 6 training was good and felt good after long run but it wasn't easy to do though.
...so madhu was concerned if I had the energy to do go. I assured him that I was completely ok and we can go.We went home had good breakfast and had a glimpse of Perfect Bride, charged the camera batteries had shower and started to Pocono's with all the Enthu and Energy I could have. I also made some upma to eat on the way.Drive to Pocono's was good. Most of the leaves on the tress had started turning brown and few of them already sheded. But when millions of tress are together the view was awesome. I took few pictures on the way to Pocono's. We had upma on the way to Pocono's so that we'll have some energy to walk around but I guess that wasn't enough.
When we reached there it was almost packed. We have parked the car in a metered parking lot and headed towards the crowd to see the market that was setup. Several items were being sold like food, hand made decorative items, t-shirts, beads, jewelry etc. We walked around looking at all the stalls. I almost bought one of the hand made decorative piece until I saw the price sticker. OMG it was way beyond my bugdet but the decorative frame was really cute. They have actually stuck some of the dried flowers and leaves on a sheet of paper and framed it and it was really cute.After walking around for sometime we both ended up at the information center to find out about the train timings. We got what we needed and having abrief look at the brochure we finally found out where to buy the tickets and headed towards the ticket counter. We both were standing in line to buy the tickets and we had an option to sit on regular car but madhu was interested in going in Kaboose. Forget to mention that while we were walking arround the stals we had some french fries and also something called potato pancake which was completely floating in oil. But somehow we both ended up eating it all :). We got into kaboose and I wasn't impressed much with it but I thought madhu made a right choice because it was very cold outside. So sitting in the kaboose which is a closed compartment of the train was good. Kaboose had limited tickets. So there were only three families including us. It was 45min ride through mountains. The train started from the village it would go 20min to another stop and return.The ride was very beautiful but I thought it would have been more colorful it we went somewhere 3rd week of september but you know what never mind. Everything was going good so far. We were on our way back to village where we started and thats when started my headache. It was mild but it was seriouly getting worse min by min. by the time we got down from the train whirlpool started in my head and I was so grumpy. I know it was because of the run and dehydration and to that was the culprit the potato pancake. We started heading towards home and Madhu sugessted me to take taylenol if its really worse.I thought may be I should take the tablet.Madhu bought me taylenol and a water bottle and we started from there. On the way we stopped at DD(Dunkin Donuts) for madhu's coffee and I used the rest room meanwhile. Madhu started making fun of me and he was asking if I would like to eat another portion of potato which was nothing but Hashbrowns I was like please I have no patience to laugh don't make me laugh. We started from DD and almost after 10mins drive I almost felt like throwing up and I asked Madhu to entertain by himself while I'll catchup on some nap which might help me feel better. I almost slept for an 1hr and I was better after that 1hr.I repented all the way till I got home for eating that junk food. I thought the day start good but didn't end good. But anyways we got to see the glimpse of fall colors for 2009. As always said to myself again never eat food thats too oily on an empty stomach :)
Training-10/26/09-11/1/09 ::: Week # 6
Monday- off- relax and stretch
Tuesday- 4 miles easy
Wednesday- 4 miles easy
Thursday- Off- strength- train- crunches and push-ups
Friday- 4 miles easy
Saturday- Off- relax and stretch Sunday- 10 miles
week 6 training was good and felt good after long run but it wasn't easy to do though.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Week # 5
The Big race day is just arround the corner. Two more weekends and that's it the third weekend from now is the big day Nov 22nd Philly marathon and half marathon race day. Training is going good so far with no major injuries.The weekday runs were good we could run almost all scheduled days. so below is our week 5 schedule.
Training-10/19/09-10/25/09 ::: Week # 5
Monday- off- relax and stretch
Tuesday- 3 miles easy --yes
Wednesday- 4 miles easy --yes
Thursday- Off- strength- train- crunches and push-ups
Friday- 4 miles easy --yes
Saturday- Off- relax and stretch
Sunday- 8 miles
.....for sunday run we woke up as usual around 6.00am got dressed and tied up the laces to start the day. I don't remember the temperature but It wasn't that cold. We got into the car and started heading towards kingston lock the usual spot for long runs. It takes 10mins from my place to get to kingston lock.We reached the spot and found sriram who was trying to setup the water bottles for runners. I and madhu had a chat with sriram when he mentioned that coach Tom was also running today. So we started running but this time we had to run along trail 2 not trail1 as trail 1 was flooded becuase of the heavy rain the day before. Personally I like new trail much better than old trail. The new trail is much wider and little less trees on both sides compared to the old one. The first water stop was after 2.2miles so to finish 8 miles we had to go lillte beyond 2nd water stop and come back that would make total of 8 miles. The first 2.2miles was ok I managed to run most of it without much walking. Madhu reached 1st water stop way ahead of me and waited for me then we both started from there to strech our legs for another 2 miles to finish the first four miles. Here started the problem I had to pee and wasn't sure if I want to or not and I was also little hesitant. Madhu said thats ok you can go ahead there is nothing wrong in it but I was still contemplating and finally decided to pee behind the bushes :) for the first time. I have seen people do it before but never did and this time couldn't help it. What do you do when you have no other options Within 5 mins we started running again and it took almost 2 hours 30mins for us to complete 8miles with all the stops and all. After run we met coach for the first time and he showed us some streatching excercise to do after run which I thought were very helpful. We had a sip of gatorade and then started heading towards home. While we were driving back we were discussing about going to Poconos for fall foliage visit. All about Pocono's visit in my next post labeled Poconos.
Training-10/19/09-10/25/09 ::: Week # 5
Monday- off- relax and stretch
Tuesday- 3 miles easy --yes
Wednesday- 4 miles easy --yes
Thursday- Off- strength- train- crunches and push-ups
Friday- 4 miles easy --yes
Saturday- Off- relax and stretch
Sunday- 8 miles
.....for sunday run we woke up as usual around 6.00am got dressed and tied up the laces to start the day. I don't remember the temperature but It wasn't that cold. We got into the car and started heading towards kingston lock the usual spot for long runs. It takes 10mins from my place to get to kingston lock.We reached the spot and found sriram who was trying to setup the water bottles for runners. I and madhu had a chat with sriram when he mentioned that coach Tom was also running today. So we started running but this time we had to run along trail 2 not trail1 as trail 1 was flooded becuase of the heavy rain the day before. Personally I like new trail much better than old trail. The new trail is much wider and little less trees on both sides compared to the old one. The first water stop was after 2.2miles so to finish 8 miles we had to go lillte beyond 2nd water stop and come back that would make total of 8 miles. The first 2.2miles was ok I managed to run most of it without much walking. Madhu reached 1st water stop way ahead of me and waited for me then we both started from there to strech our legs for another 2 miles to finish the first four miles. Here started the problem I had to pee and wasn't sure if I want to or not and I was also little hesitant. Madhu said thats ok you can go ahead there is nothing wrong in it but I was still contemplating and finally decided to pee behind the bushes :) for the first time. I have seen people do it before but never did and this time couldn't help it. What do you do when you have no other options Within 5 mins we started running again and it took almost 2 hours 30mins for us to complete 8miles with all the stops and all. After run we met coach for the first time and he showed us some streatching excercise to do after run which I thought were very helpful. We had a sip of gatorade and then started heading towards home. While we were driving back we were discussing about going to Poconos for fall foliage visit. All about Pocono's visit in my next post labeled Poconos.
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