After forever (never ran a day in my life), I made a start today, one which I hope to continue.
Joined old friend GK and his running buddies - Raghu and Guru in Bolingbrook's Lily Cache soccer park. There is a beautiful 1 mile loop with a convenient viewer gallery for you to drop off your supplies (water/ gatorade, etc.).
We reached there at 8 am, and started a short while after some warm ups. While GK and his buddies finished 5 miles in 40 minutes, I finished 3 miles in the same time, alternately walking and jogging. After a short break, I did another one mile, while GK and co. did another two miles in the same time I took to do one.
Well, summary for the day - 4 miles, roughly 55 minutes for the 4 miles, and the first two miles went much faster than the last 2.
Tomorrow is a 3 mile run for charity - with Simi and Adi, and that should go Ok, giving me 7 miles for this week.
I did look up some youtube videos on warming up, stretching, hydrating, and boy, is there conflicting information within watching just a few videos.
In other news, I did also register for the Chicago Half Marathon - September-8 this morning, so that makes for a fairly busy AM.
Let us see what tomorrow brings, and will try to track progress here regularly.
Cheers
Shridhar
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Friday, May 6, 2011
Grilling Vegetables stove top
After some web based research into grilling vegetables on a stove top, I bought this Emerilware from Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/Emerilware-Enamel-Single-Reversible-Griddle/dp/B000SZO5IK/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1304710402&sr=8-4
This grill is so much cheaper than similar grills from Sur La Table, and one of the only single burner grills on the market.
My marinade was made of olive oil, salt, honey, hot sauce, lime juice in proportions that are to taste. I used asparagus spears, zucchinis, yellow squash, green and red bell peppers, onions in the marinade, and grilled tomatoes, pineapple without the marinade.
Every vegetable came out perfectly grilled. I removed the unused vegetables from the marinade and stored them in the refrigerator, and the following day, could eat them straight out of the fridge and did not need to cook them.
The children loved it and this is very likely to become a summer activity.
It takes a lot more time to get 'x' amount of food on the table while grilling... that is the only reason it will remain a weekend activity.
http://www.amazon.com/Emerilware-Enamel-Single-Reversible-Griddle/dp/B000SZO5IK/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1304710402&sr=8-4
This grill is so much cheaper than similar grills from Sur La Table, and one of the only single burner grills on the market.
My marinade was made of olive oil, salt, honey, hot sauce, lime juice in proportions that are to taste. I used asparagus spears, zucchinis, yellow squash, green and red bell peppers, onions in the marinade, and grilled tomatoes, pineapple without the marinade.
Every vegetable came out perfectly grilled. I removed the unused vegetables from the marinade and stored them in the refrigerator, and the following day, could eat them straight out of the fridge and did not need to cook them.
The children loved it and this is very likely to become a summer activity.
It takes a lot more time to get 'x' amount of food on the table while grilling... that is the only reason it will remain a weekend activity.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
On the 2010 NFL Survivor Pool Strategy... and How I Fared...
Knowing nothing about the 2010 NFL Surivor betting pool strategy, I decided to enter one (http://www.sportsbook.com/) and paid $25 to enter a pool at the beginning of the season. After reviewing a few strategies online (http://www.teamrankings.com/blog/nfl/nfl-survivor-strategy-week-1-advice and http://www.docsports.com/current/survivor-pool-advice.html), I picked the Tennessee Titans for Week-1.
My own newly created strategy was to pick a team that had the greatest predicted season differential (10-6 for the Titans against 4-12 for the Oakland Raiders) and always pick the team playing at home. The last part of my strategy, that may have led to undoing, was to save the more obvious teams for later.
Well, I made it through Week-1, but 2000 of the 7000+ in my pool were knocked out.
In Week-2, I picked the Carolina Panthers vs. the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and I got kicked out of the pool myself. I would like to think that I was consistent with my strategy, except that I should not have waited to pick on the more obvious teams for later. Well, what are you gonna do...
Anyway, the major upsets for Week-1 (per the betting pool) were the Chargers, 49ers and Cowboys, who knocked out 1500+ people from the pool. The Bears, thanks to their controversial last second victory against the Lions saved 850 people from getting kicked out of the pool. http://www.nfl.com/scores/2010/REG1
For Week-2, the major upsets were the loss of the Cowboys (to Da Bears), Vikings and Panthers (my pick), and that knocked out another 1000 people from the pool. http://www.nfl.com/scores/2010/REG2
For Week-3, everyone played safe, with only the Redskins' loss to the Houston Texans being an upset, knocking out a paltry 200 from the pool. http://www.nfl.com/scores/2010/REG3
The biggest bets for Week-4 are for the Saints to win against the hapless Panthers, and for the Chargers to win against the Cardinals.
Anyway, so much for my non-strategy, will post more on whatever pops into my mind later... have fun and a great Football Sunday.
On SNL Weekend Update, there was a hilarious skit where Bobby Moynihan on Second Hand News, said that Tiger Woods' divorce from Ellen DeGeneres was not going through because she was, you know, Lebanese... Hilarious!
Enjoy... till our next post...
My own newly created strategy was to pick a team that had the greatest predicted season differential (10-6 for the Titans against 4-12 for the Oakland Raiders) and always pick the team playing at home. The last part of my strategy, that may have led to undoing, was to save the more obvious teams for later.
Well, I made it through Week-1, but 2000 of the 7000+ in my pool were knocked out.
In Week-2, I picked the Carolina Panthers vs. the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and I got kicked out of the pool myself. I would like to think that I was consistent with my strategy, except that I should not have waited to pick on the more obvious teams for later. Well, what are you gonna do...
Anyway, the major upsets for Week-1 (per the betting pool) were the Chargers, 49ers and Cowboys, who knocked out 1500+ people from the pool. The Bears, thanks to their controversial last second victory against the Lions saved 850 people from getting kicked out of the pool. http://www.nfl.com/scores/2010/REG1
For Week-2, the major upsets were the loss of the Cowboys (to Da Bears), Vikings and Panthers (my pick), and that knocked out another 1000 people from the pool. http://www.nfl.com/scores/2010/REG2
For Week-3, everyone played safe, with only the Redskins' loss to the Houston Texans being an upset, knocking out a paltry 200 from the pool. http://www.nfl.com/scores/2010/REG3
The biggest bets for Week-4 are for the Saints to win against the hapless Panthers, and for the Chargers to win against the Cardinals.
Anyway, so much for my non-strategy, will post more on whatever pops into my mind later... have fun and a great Football Sunday.
On SNL Weekend Update, there was a hilarious skit where Bobby Moynihan on Second Hand News, said that Tiger Woods' divorce from Ellen DeGeneres was not going through because she was, you know, Lebanese... Hilarious!
Enjoy... till our next post...
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