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I finally had my task cut-out for the last week. I just need to get 100% fit and so I decided to give running a break and concentrated on recuperating completely from my calf injury. Now for this I decided to rely on the age old practices of Yoga and Pranayam (recently coming into picture because of the Ramdevji's controversy). Now these techniques are not at all new to me since my mom's into Yoga for years. I just introduced to Pranayam for a year now (thanks to Ramdevji and Aastha TV :). So, it was a week full of holistic healing. By the end of the week the pain in the calf had considerably subsided and it was back to normal. It was so normal by Friday that I even decided to participate in my class football match. Initially I was a little skeptical of this decision of mine but then it was always in my wish list to play football for my class which I did and throughly enjoyed. It also made me feel very good.

A day before the marathon I just thought of becoming a little nostalgic and straight headed to Prabodhan Kridabhavan (Goregaon) the ground at which I practiced all these days and which I proudly refer to as my home-ground as it was here I played my cricket. No points for guessing that I even kiss the ground as I enter and leave it.

January 14, 2006

i DiD iT

Oh...yaah I must say its been a very good start to the new year. Saying this because finally I did play for my class football team as a goalkeeper. I played with the likes of Adolph (our captain, stopper and a brusque at heart), Melvin (ace defender), Bosco (defender and a show-off purist...;-), Biju (strong kicker), Steve (ace shooter) Darryl (stinger) and Ravi (our striker with a Golden leg... atleast i feel so but the records say a different story altogether).

I did hav to mak a statement in the game... I am far better than Revin and Ryan previous year goal-keepers but nothing was more important than winnning the game for my team. All I wanted to do was not to let the ball anywere closer to the goal.

The game began with the goal in first 2 seconds... yup guys 2 secs or may be lesser. Biju kicked the ball from the center starting position right into the goal of the opponent team. Just imagine the faces of the opponents and the people watching the game... esp the goal-keeper.

The rest of the game was full of excitement as the opponents continuously trying to equalize. I did make quite a few daring saves and one super-save which everyone appreciated even the audience. Finally, the opponents equalized with two minutes for the whistle from a continuous second attempt at the goal and me making a full dive to my left but to no avail. We lost in the penalty shoot-outs later.

I m sure the marks of the dive would remain with me for a couple of weeks now and these memories forever...

January 10, 2006

CoLLeGe pUkAaR RaHa hAi

My college re-opend on 2nd January but I m stil not convinced about this. I need someone to convince me it did and I better attend college. Also it's not that I m not making any efforts to rejoin college after my vacations. I did make two short appearances in college but both just made me realize the fact that I am going to waste my time attending college. I don't find it worth travelling all the way to college. To top it all we have got half-days for the first two weeks. I would for sure love to do some creative work here at home but even that is far from what I land up doing. Decided to attend college tommorrow but it would be more for the website of the upcomming college fest Collosseum '06 rather than the lectures. My first appearance in college(after the lectures got over) did work out well as I designed the logo for Colosseum '06 (will show it to you all too... soon). Everyone seemed to love it. Principal and Father Marion appreciated it too with a speacial mention of the concept I managed to portray. Hpe tommorrow is a good day too. Amen.

January 7, 2006

aNoThEr wEeK In pErSpEcTiVe…

3rd Week

Time: 57 mins
Distance: 10 km

Anyone would have been surprised and shocked by the progress of the third week considering the performances in the first two weeks. Even I was! Frankly, its not the time or the distance I covered during the week but the fear of an injury to my right calf during the 11km run which troubled me and made me reconsider the training schedule. The problem I was facing was that I was unsure of the severity of the pain and no medical attention or a trainer just made matters worse with constant fears of a serious injury doing rounds in my mind.

On the brighter side there were quite a few motivating thoughts...

Once I start running even though my legs would pain for the initial period it would be fine after sometime. The important thing here is not keep questioning oneself throughout the run and not keep querying about the condition of your muscles. Now this isn't easy but not difficult at all. Try and keep your mind busy in something like for example try revising multiplication tables. I bet this wrks and really wrks well. I tried this during the second week and so the amazing performance that you see.
Already done 11 km...!
After all its a mind game.. now I do keep repeating this again and again but its just for the simple reason that your muscle power would get you there but not without the right signals being sent out from your mind.
Finally I knew if I was going to be 100% fit on the day of the half marathon then I would surely make it!!!

January 7, 2006

DaY 21

Rest Day... compulsive because of the aversion shown by me towards recovering from the jogs and going all out.

January 6, 2006

DaY 20

Time: 30 mins
Distance: 5.xx km

January 5, 2006

DaY 19

Time: 17 mins
Distance: 3.xx km

January 4, 2006

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Superman! Yes, it’s Superman

Facts in Chronological order:

Was never into reading comics but did watch Superman series on VCR multiple times. He was my only SuperHero.

Mom gifted me Superman IV - (featuring Sun Man) on one of my birthdays. (it was long time back)

Frnds in my college call me Superman:
Ravi is the ONE who started it. This is what he had to say abt it later whn he posted on our yahoogroups:

well .... i felt this fella looked like superman and so i started
calling him superman. since then this guy has been called
SOOOOOOOPERRRRRRMANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then on, I sign the mails on our yahoogroups as "SoOoPerMaN" 😉

Mom once out of the blue told me that I lookd lik Christopher Reeves. (whn he expired and his pics were all over the papers)

The wallpaper on my cell is that of Superman >>> 'S'

Now this Survey:
You are Superman