Fists

SO, I am really trying to find ways to make this blog exciting, because frankly, the story of an Indian math teacher running and biking around and telling you what he is doing seems a little light on depth.

But here is the thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have my blog set up so that I can post things from my iPhone directly to it, like workouts, pictures and eventually maps, and am working on some short posts to explain how to do it through the iPhone and your Google account. I hope you guys are checking out how awesome my training calendar is -- it only took 10 minutes to set up with my Google calendar, and I can upload workouts to it from my iPhone when in the gym or after a run. It makes staying on training schedule so much easier.

Some people tell me my fundraising link doesn't work, but it seems to work for me. If you read this, try it and let me know if it works -- And donate money! It really is for a good cause. I found out the other day that a friend of mine has cancer -- sarcoma. He is really young and a solid person, and it sucks. I am going to see if I can make him one of my honorees even though he doesn't have blood cancer.


The other day I did a fist workout in the pool on my Half-Ironman triathlete cousin Karthik's suggestion, which entails swimming with your fists. It was interestinghow little force you can create off of your fists, and how it makes you use your core to keep yourself moving and afloat. On the first day of TNT group training we had to do a swimming drill called Balanced Body Position, where you keep your hands at your sides and breathe like a breaststroke and go all the way across using only kick. I couldn't do it for more than 2 or 3 seconds at a time before I got all spastic. I don't like breathing that way, and couldn't get enough thrust in my kicks to get deeper breaths. But I can tell how much more confident I will be in the water if and when I do learn to do it. Here is a link to the drill where they breathe on their side, which might be what I try next:



And I got new running shoes -- they're red (dark oxide, actually)! Been doing lots of night runs lately.