Run Musings

RunBurn's Kidzathon Flag-off As a child who grew up in the 80s, I spent a lot of my time in the playground in the evening. It could have been because of the lack of other things to engage like – TV, Play Stations etc. Back in those days, we had pretty much 2 channel available for entertainment which played cartoons or children’s entertainment program only for a meagre 2 hours. I categorically remember getting a shout out every evening from the friends and we would get out and play games like Cricket, Football, Marbles(for that matter), but those hours were definitely spent out in the field. As we grew old and technology started playing its part, all of us started getting confined to our own mobile phones. A lot has been written on this subject by a lot of bloggers and authors. However, What I intend to talk about here is how, we as parents are not pushing our kids in to the field. Even when we spent most of our time there as children. As a parent of a 6 year old, h...

How many times has it happened to us that we start a fitness activity, do it diligently and then post a festival or off season where we take a break, it becomes difficult to restart. It has happened to me for sure. This happens to a lot of people here in our country on following occasions: Post a long festival season – (Navratri, Diwali, Christmas etc) Post Monsoon – Strange but true – a lot of runners take a break in monsoon Post the main running season is over (October – March every year) a lot of runners take a break to come back and start training again for the upcoming running season. While we don’t really have any off season these days in the large cities like Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi due to the number of running events happening each weekend, it is still true for a lot of runners that they take a break from April to September. Major life event – wedding or becoming a parent Break due to injuries The challenges faced by most of us here could be as follows: Lack of mo...

This thought came to me the first time in the year 2010. This is when I started travelling a lot for work and most of my travel brought me all the irregular and junk eating habits that I struggled to give up over the next some years. In the year 2009 after I changed my job, my new assignment in my new organisation would require me to travel in states like MP, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa. All of these travels would include meeting with partners, employees and customers from these regions. Since it was new job responsibility I spent about 3 days a week traveling outside of the home town. This also meant, late night team dinners and flights at wee hours. Team dinners would mean – Liquor (yes in Gujarat too) and a lot of junk food. Being a complete foodie, I would look forward to this trips as it gave me opportunities at treating my taste buds with savouries like Fafda and Jalebi in Gujarat, Fish curry, Bebenca, Dodol in Goa, Malpua, Poha Jalebi in MP and Tambda Rassa Pandhra R...