Category: Health
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Quartile – build words from tiles
Quartile is the new word game from Apple News+. It started life in June 2024. It is simple, beautiful, and challenging. The game asks one to build as many words from the tiles, represented as tiles in a 5 x 4 grid (5 rows and 4 columns). The idea is to form words with 1…
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Grand Canyon R2R Hike (Oct 2023)
Last November I completed my first marathon. It was a great experience. Some friends asked me about what is next. There are people who continue to do more marathons and naturally that is a good thing to continue. Coincidentally I heard from my wife about the possibility of doing a hike across the Grand Canyon.…
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My first marathon run
For nearly a decade, I had dreamt of running a full marathon. For many years, running a 3-4 miles seemed to be the psychological limit. Brain rapidly sent instructions to stop the body; the body complied dutifully. A few times, the body won over the brain, and I still completed half marathon runs. Still, the…
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Bike Ride to Sequim WA
The last few weeks have been good for running and biking. Six years back, I did a long distance ride of about 115 miles. I was interested in repeating such a long distance bike ride. In particular, I was interested in biking from Bellevue, WA to Sequim, WA. My family was concerned about my interest…
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My (first) longest run in Seattle
Seattle has a beautiful landscape with lakes and mountains. For many years I have been dreaming of running on the Lake Washington bridges in Seattle. I always found it harder to run past 3 miles. Often the brain will tell me that I had done enough and push me to stop. Starting in 2021, I…
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Out and about with CEGO
Two events catalyzed my move to run more often and continuously. One was the desire to conquer the fears and run a full marathon. Another was the chance meeting with an avid group of runners in the summer of 2021. One suggestion I received was to share with others and hence get support. I founded…
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Healthy Eating for Happy Life
One evening about a decade back, my father had a heart attack. Fortunately our neighbor took him to the hospital in Chennai within 20 minutes (within the golden hour). My father received angioplasty with stem implant to cure his condition. Since then my father has been on stricter diet and medications. This was a wake…
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Step up and care for the heart
Almost every month, if not every week, we hear about someone affected by heart disease. I count my blessings for knowing a lot of people. I count my blessings that my dad recovered from a heart attack 11 years back. I count my blessings that several people helped us. My wife, being a cardiologist, also…
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Tracking Health, Fitness, and Training
Over the past few months I had been working out on my own in the house. Plus occasionally I had taken personal training lessons from an accomplished trainer in Chennai. Besides I had been tracking food intake and the like to stay healthy during this #COVID19 situation. A few takeaways from these experiences. There are…
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Disruptor 2020: GoodRx
GoodRx is #16 in the CNBC Disruptor List for June 2020 Purpose: a marketplace for affordable and convenient health care, in particular with pharmacy refills. Recently, they also added HeyDoctor by GoodRx – for telemedicine, which adds another product line to their business. Through this platform, GoodRx offers $20 family care physician checkups online. The company…