6 January 2013

First Sunday Bengali run of the year

First Sunday morning Bengali run. I was the only one who showed up 🙁 Well, I have the whole Starbucks to myself now 😉
Paid dearly for not packing my barefoot shoes for India. (Ran in my travel sneakers). Lot of pain in left lower calf muscle and a weird pain on my right foot right under where you have the shoelace knot. At around one mile, there was a sudden searing pain. I jumped up in surprise and pain. Could not put my foot down. After a few minutes, ran slowly back taking care to land on the outer edge of the foot. Any of you have had this problem before?

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24 December 2012

Dallas Trip

Tables turned on me. Usually it is the family who drops me at the airport. Today I dropped them on their way to Dallas. Can’t remember when was the last time the three girls flew by themselves without me. The last 30 minutes were hilarious. I kept on giving instructions to Sharmila Roy how to get the boarding pass, where the luggage drop is, when to board the plane and she kept reminding me how to operate the dishwasher, how long to microwave the food and such 🙂 — at Atlanta Hartfield airport.

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23 December 2012

Slightly warmed up…

One advantage of running in 20 degrees is that the next day run in 29 degrees is a breeze. Especially when there is no breeze 🙂 Sunday morning run with the dependable-as-rock Samaresh Mukhopadhyay. Our other partner Amitesh Mukherjee is basking in the Florida sun (like every other really old person 🙂 )

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22 December 2012

First run with Chandresh

First sub-zero run of the season. 30 degrees. With wind chill 20 in Milton (-6 Celsius). Had a great run with Chandresh Modi. I had at least one layer more than him on my body and two on the head. Want to guess who was born in a village in UK and who was born in a village in India? 🙂 In my defense, I shave my head and he has started growing a beard 🙂

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16 December 2012

Tire wear and tear

I got this puzzle from my brother-in-law today (all your jokes about troubles created by inlaws to be inserted here 🙂 ). I believe I have arrived at the right answer but since he does not know the answer himself, would like to see if others can prove or disprove me.
A car’s wear and tear pattern is such that any new tire put in the front can last 40,000 miles and the ones in the rear can last 60,000 miles. You are given four new tires to begin with and you can interchange the tires between front and rear as many times as you want. What is the maximum distance you can drive?

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