The San Francisco Marathon Kesari

I am glad to have stopped training for the triathlon, and to be running again. Running and biking are great, and so is swimming but hard for me to find the time. Have a couple of more shots this year.

I did the first half of the marathon, and unlike what a lot of people say, you don't actually have to wake up for the 5:30am start. I started at around 6:45 with group 7 (I think), and ran this year's race rogue, meaning I didn't enter but ran it anyway. It was a cold and foggy morning, and I wasn't sure I was going to do it until right before. I actually slept past my alarm, but made it up at about 6, and decided the only way was to drive. So drive I did.

I don't do anything serious in the morning without coffee. Driving into SF and running a half marathon qualifies as "serious", so I was glad to hit the 24 hour donut place on Lakeshore

Kesari, if you didn't know, is my favorite Indian sweet. In learning of what it is made, it is actually quite simple and decadent, but apparently babies like it too. I was happy to know that it is also an excellent pre-race meal, since I still had half a baking dish of it left after the previous Friday's Ganesa Puja.

Here's how to make kesari. It is a really good sweet to make for auspicious occasions, and it is way easy to make a lot . . .