Elevating Disappointing and Crushing

1-Oct-17, I ran the half marathon on the treadmill in 1:52. Elevating. Best ever when compared to my past performances on the treadmill.
1-Oct-17 broke the running deck of the treadmill. Disappointing. C'mon. I'm 82 Kgs. Running @12 at times should not break the deck. Now my treadmill is ruined.
8-Oct-17. Ran the first outdoor run of the season. Could not complete even 10 kms in Mumbai Oct heat. Took 1:05 min just to run 10Kms. Welcome to the real world. Crushing...

Marginal Tax Rates

When it comes to Congress misrule, one of the things that comes up often is that it kept the marginal tax rates insanely high.
Just to set the context the marginal tax rates in the vanguard of Capitalism the US over the years is captured here

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/09/28/opinion/092817krugman2/092817krugman2-tmagArticle.png

Say What!

Keep Dreaming Boy!

8 years on... fueled by Deep Purple!
I really wasn't planning on it. When I woke up, I thought I'd do a 16K to cover 20+K for the week. I had run just once this week and was keen to round it off with a 16K run. But then I got delayed getting on to the treadmill and decided to cut it off to 12K.

All these years, doing 12K in an hour was just a wish, like wouldn't it be something to cherish, if only I could. Over these years I've done 11.2K in an hour in the best of times. The most I had run at 12K speed was 5K and was proud of it.

Back in 2014 when I went to Abu Dhabi was the first time I could push it to 7K and then to 8K @12K an hour 5min per km.

But over the last six months, its been happenning. I first closed in with a 8K run and then with a 10K and recently I clocked 11.85K in an hour.

Today is special. Its 12K with 1:20 min to spare. I'm proud. I'm satisfied. I'm home...
There is 1 more hill to climb... We'll see about it...

AWS Ins and Outs

I'm not an AWS expert and surely it hurt my billing for more than a year. So, sometime in 2015, my AWS platform became outdated and I was forced to upgrade. It was a pain and I might have taken a few wrong turns. As a result after reconfiguring, my billing went up significantly (25%). I was simple unable to figure out how.

I finally got around to fixing it last month and saved $30 a month. Now, that's what I call a King's ransom ;) 

12 Kms In a little over an hour

Thus far my best 1 hr performance.
In march I had my annual check up only to discover my vitamin D was barely 8. I had aches and pains in my joints. My fingers pained when I woke up and my legs pained after each run.
I never thought much of it. I had a feeling that my Vit D was low but wow! 8 is bad.
And so I took a couple of Vit D strips. I also made it a point to swim at 12 noon for 30 min over weekends spending good time under the sun.
Within a month or so, the pain is gone and I'm hitting my strides. I'm also taking Calcium tablets and Vit B12 capsules.
The results are pleasant. I never thought I could do this distance in this time. It's my dream to do 12 kms in 1 hr. As the treadmill clock measures time in minutes post 60 min mark, what it shows is slightly misleading. But overall, I know I perhaps did this distance in 1:00:40 or so.

10 KM 50 min

5-Jan-2017
Just for records