5 May
2017
5 May
2017
Friday morning humor.
4 May
2017
Which airport am I in? #9 in the series
As you step out of the plane into the airport, you are almost immediately hit with a lot of casts of skeletons of pre-historic animals that roamed the world with great descriptions of each attached.
Did you know that
Left Top: The Stag Moose (35,000 to 11,000 years ago) had an interesting mix of two different modern animals. The skull and face resembled closely to that of an elk but it had large palmate antlers just like a moose!
Right Top: The saber-toothed tiger (1.6 million years to 10,000 years ago) was not a tiger at all nor even closely related to today’s cats?
Left Bottom: The Giant Bison (240,000 years to 25,000 years ago) weighed in at an impressive 4,000 pounds and had a horn span of over 6 feet!
Right Bottom: The American Mastodon (3.75 million years to 10,000 years ago) could weigh up to a mighty 6 tons
Which airport am I in?
4 May
2017
4 mile run on a cloudy morning in Lexington, Kentucky
30 April
2017
Near perfect shot after waiting for almost one hour in the patio…
30 April
2017
From the bartender’s corner – Arthur Tompkins
30 April
2017
100 miles for the fourth consecutive month…
30 April
2017
One good turn deserved another…
I ran a 5K race after a long time this morning. To make sure that I did not wait for that long a time for the next one, I went ahead and ran a second one this evening. Morning one was on a flat surface and I was able to post 8:13 min/mile. The evening one was on punishing hills and I had to slow down to 8:41 min/mile. But there was wine at the end of it 🙂
Nikita and our dog Jay Jay came to cheer me up. (Sharmila is visiting Natasha in New York).
Your probably remember some of the inspiring pictures of kids running in the morning. The evening one was no different. The evening run was to raise money for differently abled kids who are financially disadvantaged. There was one kid who clearly was differently abled who showed up (for the shorter version of the race) to raise money for his brethren.
I was touched by him enough to hang around till he showed up at the finishing line. I was completely humbled by the fact that somebody who can barely walk properly would show up for a race just to raise money for kids like him but in a different financial situation.
What blew my mind was the sight of his mom walking step for step with him all the way. What sacrifices must she have made to raise her son all her life!
Every time the next hill in my run threatened to take my breath away, all I had to do was remind myself of what I had just seen. The world was very even after that.
Let the records indicate that for all the divisiveness we have pushed ourselves to in the garb of so called knowledge and intelligence, our basic instinct of just being humane is often still intact!!!
29 April
2017
Race to beat ALS (Lou Gehrig’s syndrome)
It was extremely heartening to see so many people come out to run to raise money for research and cure of ALS. Quite a few of my friends have one or the other parent affected by this and some, unfortunately, have eventually lost the battle.
There were some very cute kids who came for the Fun Run. The youngest one divided her time between taking a few steps and focusing on her pacifier!! It was very encouraging to see the sense of camaraderie among all the young participants.
In the 5K run itself, there were kids around 10 years old on one hand and there were septuagenarians on the other. There were a few who finished it in their wheelchairs – and one of them is currently afflicted by ALS. There were people sprinting, people jogging and people walking. Regardless of their capability, they came out to show solidarity in the fight against ALS. A few dogs, not to be outdone, ran the whole race with us!
If medical technology cannot find a cure soon, I am sure the human spirit will.
Amitesh ran after a long time and posted one of his career best times. I ran a 5K race after a long time too (these days, I focus on the long distance runs instead of the fast ones). Mine was good enough to get the 3rd prize in my age category.
29 April
2017
