Week 3: Training officially starts this week

Attended the orientation today and got introduced to my coach, mentor and my fellow running mates. We have a shoe and gear clinic on Sunday, core building session at Los Gatos school on Thursday and coach led running session at Campbell park next Saturday. I am hurting in my upper shin from my run on Friday. I will check with the coach tomorrow how to avoid it.

Federer V. Nadal Aus open finals tonight. I want Federer to win. But I think Nadal gets into Federer's head and Nadal contemptuosly dismisses Federer. So, let's see!

Sai.

Week 2: Got the gears

The photo says it all ! With the cap, the neck buff (that can be converted into a balaclava), I look more like a mugger than a runner ;-) With the new gears, I went for a 4 mile circuit close to home. My time sucked. It is no where close to what I get on tread mill. It was close to a fast walk than a run. Hopefully, I improve my time as the program progresses.

Sai.

Week 2: More indoor workouts

Went with the advise from the coach and restricted myself to 3 days of indoor ellipse train outs. This week I went for 60 min workouts to the numbers from "Forrest Gump", "Eric Clapton", "Harry Belafonte" and "ABBA Gold". My most favorite is "Forrest Gump". But the thing I like about "ABBA Gold" is that it runs for 77 minutes. 77 minutes of pure unadulterated mind numbingly stupid Pop. That lets me run uninterruptedly for 60 mins.

Am still waiting for my gear from REI. I chose the ship to store option. Why is it taking so long to ship to their own store. Don't they have these gears in the shop itself?

Ponderingly,
sai.