Tag: Health
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Tracking COVID19
Everyday I learn about several sites for tracking the spread of #coronavirus and #COVID19. To date most sites talk about number of people who had positive test result from the Coronovirus and death numbers. So far I had not found full data about how many tests have been done at each location. Nor do I…
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Bike Ride up a mile
Four springs back, in May 2018, one of my friends suggested I join him on the Ride The Hurricane bike ride. The Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center is located in the beautiful Olympic Mountains in the Northwest USA. At about a mile above the sea level, it was a 12 miles long climb at 5-8% gradient…
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Change – an opportunity in disguise
“Change is everywhere! Change can be outside you! Change can be inside you! Change is always happening! … Remember, Change is everywhere!” So read the note about Change in my 3rd grader’s notebook at his school. We had gone into the class room for the usual curriculum evening to learn about what the kids…
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Book: “Grit” – encourages one to persist and persevere
Often I carry books to read in the flight. But this Monday I did not have any book to read. And there was a 5 hour flight ahead of me. Browsing through the stores, I found this book – Grit. It was compact and encouraging. I was thinking through challenges my son had to go through…
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Preparing for Biking up the hill!
Over the past year, I had enjoyed biking for routine trips locally and to commute occasionally. In looking back, I had covered nearly 30 trips of 10 miles or more. Several of these had elevation gain of about 1000+ feet. Wow! I would have not imagined this 3-4 years back. A friend of mine suggested…
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Completed 2017 Seattle Half Marathon – Slow and Steady
After 8 years, today I ran the Seattle Marathon half marathon course. My goal was to complete the course with no injury and in good shape. And indeed I completed it well. This is my fourth half-marathon run in my entire life and all these came in the past decade. The pace came in at 2:52…
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Lessons from a 115 miles long bike ride
Yesterday, I completed the longest bike ride in my life so far. What started out as a potential attempt to prepare for Seattle To Portland (STP) ride , became a let me do it mission and I was on it for entire Saturday – June 25th, 2016. The Red-Bell 100 is 104 miles long. Add to that a pre-start preparation…
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Getting ready for my longest bike ride
About 10 days back, one of my friends casually (actually strongly) suggested that I ought to do a bike ride with them for their planned Seattle to Portland (aka STP) ride. Every possible excuse came out of my mouth: “oh no, I cannot. I do not have the time. I am not ready. Too Tough. …”. He…