Now those are not words you hear that often, are they?! Hardly surprising, then, that I was thrilled to bits to read an article my lovely sister forwarded to me, about the health benefits of marathon running for we – ahem – older folk. The article in question (I read …
I pick myself up, dust myself off, and start all over again.Don’t lose your confidence if you slip, be grateful for a pleasant trip,And pick yourself up, dust off, start over again. So here’s the thing. Last weekend, I tore the meniscus in my left knee, and after a week …
Just as our Delhi weather is f-i-n-a-l-l-y begin to cool down a little in the early mornings and late evenings, comes the annual phenomenon that plunges us each year into a toxic mess. Delhi’s air quality is influenced by many things – geography, crazy dust, rampant uncontrolled construction, insane traffic, …
My right to breathe. That was the message a group of us wanted to share this morning, as we ran wearing protective face masks in the heart of New Delhi, a city with the unenviable reputation of being one of the most polluted on the planet. Just think about it …
It is SO hot and humid in Delhi (where I live) that it’s difficult to imagine the winter ever coming. Our summer has been long and brutal and we still have at least a month to go before the weather will start cooling down. Actually, more than a month. Today …
Yoga. One of those quintessential Indian “things” which I’ve never really “got”. Is that too many quotation marks for one short sentence? Maybe. I tried yoga a few years ago, in an effort to make hubby dearest do some kind of exercise. The teacher came highly recommended by hubby’s sister-in-law, …
I’ve been swimming a lot, these last few days, as I holiday in Bangkok, mainly because the building has a pool, so there is no effort required at all. No crazy Delhi traffic to drive through to get to a pool, which is my standard excuse for not swimming regularly …
…a mere 83% at 5 o’clock this morning, when I got up to head out to meet my running group. 83% humidity. My friends, let me tell you 83% is crazy humid. Especially when you’re doing interval training in it. Logically, given that we haven’t actually had vast amounts of …
So said Coach at our ASICS Running Club training session yesterday. He wasn’t joking, and he wasn’t making a joke either. It was a drill involving one person bending and extending a leg, and the partner pulling said leg, to enforce the stretch. By this time I was too tired …
There are mornings when it is SO tempting to switch off the 4.30am alarm and go back to sleep – like this morning, after yet another wretched power cut made for a poor night’s sleep. But I somehow dragged myself out of bed and headed off to meet my ASICS …
