12.24 miles in 1 hour 56 mins 48 secs.Banana, milk and noodles diet last night and two rest days seems to have done the trick.Feels great, tired but fun.

Another day of running.6 miles in around 56 mins. Running was hard today.Looks like I had not fully recovered from my sunday run in the sun. Interesting how my body is reacting and struggling to adapt.

The local dogs have got used to me.I encounter around 5-6 packs on my route, yes packs , they are rarely alone.I still remember the first day ,when the sense of a new smell,that too running at around 5:30 am  alerted them from their sleep and few woke up and stood up ready to react, few warning barks and growls,some followed me for a meter or two, thankfully no standoffs occurred.Now ,after months ,they don't even care.They know who I am, some just rely on their smell to figure me out and stick to their cozy sleeping positions, a few more active ones who dont want to rely just on one sense just half open one of their eye, get visual confirmation and happily go back to sleep. Local guards of posh houses who earlier used to look at me in suspicion or curiousity no longer bother, I am now like one of those regular vegetable vendors who keep frequenting those roads who gives an aesthetic appeal to the road but do not matter as a whole. Early in the day motorists do stop to let you cross, yes, just like in US, but later on as the traffic increases all those civilities go for a toss, its every man for himself.

Running in bangalore has been fun and very Interesting.I only wish there were more parks, grounds and trails to run around instead of the roads.Its a pity that land is such a profitable commodity that there is no or very less scope for such free spaces.

Butt kicking 8:64 miles run today in the heat;totally sapped!

Yiannis Kouros

YIANNIS KOUROS! The most incredible runner,a greek,called the 'running god' or 'Pheidippiddes successor'.In case you dont know Pheidippides,he is the central figure in a story that was the inspiration for a modern sporting event, the marathon. Yiannis Kouros holds every men's outdoor road world record from 100 to 1,000 miles and every road and track record from 12 hours to 6 days. See the below video,he calls it a spiritual experience to run such long distances in which you leave the body and the body kind of no longer matters. Deep stuff!

My running playlist

I thought let me put my current fav running playlist on my blog, it maybe fun to look back after years to see what kind of songs I loved when I ran. I love racy/catchy/heavy songs as they power me forward when I want to quit.

1.Aloe Blacc - The man (Thanks to prani for this song, Recent fav,Colin Kaepernick ad hooked me to this)

2.Danza Kuduro(remix) - Don Omar (Thanks to Jasmin Zumba classes)

3. Six Days(Remix) - DJ shadow Ft Mos Def (Big fan of this song since the first time I heard it on movie Phone booth)

4. Be yourself - Audio Slave (Niranjan Narayan my former manager in Infy who introduced me to Audio Slave)

5.Iron Man - Black Sabbath (Long time favourite since my college days when listening to metal music was cool)

6. For whom the bell tolls - Metallica (Fav metallica song which was sealed as all time fav when i heard them play live this song with James hetfield right in front of me and high fiving trujillo,most memorable concert moment)

7.Call me - Blondi (Spinning classes LA fitness Edina)

8.Runaway - Bon Jovi (Again spinning classes LA fitness Edina,this song is like an adrenaline shot)

9.Archangel - Two steps from Hell (What an inspiring song,what a band,I imagine as if I am going to war)

10. Crazy - Gnarls Barkley (Great song,heard on the radio's of Minnesota for the first time)

11.Extreme ways - Moby ( Bourne mania)

12.I will survive - Gloria gaynor (Rocky,Rocky,rocky)

13. TO glory - Two steps from hell (You cannot have just one song in your play list from this group)

14.Pacific Rim - Ramin Djawadi (Jaegers vs Kaiju's,what a movie!)

15. Heart of courage - Two steps from hell (Hell yeah,that's song number 3 from TSFH)

16. Its my life - Bon Jovi (This song needs no intro)

17. One way street - MLTR (Santu introduced me to this group)

18. One of these nights - Eagles (Kinda slow for a run,but changes the tempo,Heard this on the radio for the first time in the night while driving through Arizona from Phoenix to grand canyon and was hooked to it from the first time I heard it)

19. Papercut - Linkin Park (For some reason I love this song a lot from Linkin Park than their other famous ones)

20. Phantom of the opera - Iron maiden (Oh god,what a song!I have never got bored of this)

To continue..

My first 10 miler in India

Woohoo! My first 10 miler in India, took some time getting to it. Finished 10.23 miles in 1:40:53 at a pace of 9 min,52 sec per mile. Need lot of work on fitness.