5K Race

I was lying low for sometime, after my injury scare while playing volleyball. I started running around the lake scranton again after the pain in my right ankle reduced, though i had support for my wrist. My office colleague informed me about a 5K memorial run on April 19th, organized as part of the Carbondale YMCA( Old and Historical town in PA). I was excited the moment i heard about that. I wanted to run in the race but wasnt sure on whether my ankle would be ok for running. I ran around lake scranton on friday(april 18th) to check whether my ankle is ok for running. I couldnt complete the full run, yet i decided to run on saturday.

Race Day

I was there for registration sharply on time, 7.30 in the morning. Whenever I am on time nothing else will happen on time. There was a fund raiser event for YMCA and there were lot of politicians giving long and lengthy speech. Politicians are the same everywhere. Race that was suppose to start at 9.15 in the morning started at 10.15. Temperature was also high on 90F. I gulped in a bottle of gatorade before the start of the race. There were lot of people who ran in the race. The moment race started people were sprinting as if they are running in a 100 or 200 meters which is very bad for a long distance running. There were cops and volunteer regulating traffic around the race route and people cheering us all the way to the end. Lot of people dropped out in the middle of the race. I completed 1 mile in 8 mins and 10 seconds, my office colleague had to stop in between for a minute since her knee started giving trouble. I finished my 2nd mile in 17 mins and 20 seconds. The last leg of the race was the tough one with one long up hill , i struggled but somehow managed to finish the run in 27 mins and 20 seconds. I was happy on finishing the race and I was placed at 52 among 588 people who ran in the race. It was not bad for somone who has never run in such a long distance race before.

I hate Mozilla for this reason

I work a lot with web applications when it comes to mozilla firefox i hate it as a developer for a simple reason. See the below pic, you can see the cursor or control in two places one in the title and another in the edit area of the textbox. It can make a developer look like a fool in front of testers

Bad things always comes in double for me

I would like to forget my last week. It was full of bad news and un-necessary tensions and fights. Sunday was ok with good work out, volleyball game and some nice time after that. Monday was our title match for Weston Hall volleyball league, It did not go well. Too much of confusion right from the start to end. We lost the game, the way we lost the game was more hurting. Rift in the team after that wasnt fun to deal with, lot of explanation and long discussions for 2 or 3 days to make up.
Nothing much went on Thursday but was a hectic day @work. Friday started pretty well with me being in high spirits from morning, left around 5.30 from work and got ready for my game of volleyball. I was happy with the way i was played out there, my setting was good and my drops were pretty good. In the 3rd set I went up for a block, i landed on my right ankle, i tripped and fell down in that instinct i landed on my right wrist. I knew at that moment i shouldnt have used my right hand for support when i landed. My wrist started swelling immediatley the worst part was i had volleyball tournmanet on sunday. I had tough time on saturday, i went to the doctor , took an xray thank god no broken bones only a sprain. Hope a better week likes ahead for me.

Dream come true

There is a beautiful, pleasant and scenic lake called Lake Scranton near my house. There is a trail around the lake for 3.5 miles a haven for fitness enthusiasts who run or walk around the lake. I started walking around the lake two summers before and use to always struggle to complete 3.5 miles. I use to see lot of people running around the lake and completing the entire stretch. I wondered then on whether I will be able to run like that. I don’t even remember of me running 100 or 200 meters in school or college. I was never a runner and never had a motivation to push myself so hard for running. The game what I chose to play (volleyball) also helped the cause, not much need for running, stand and play. I have been running for the past 1 year or so in the tread mill or in the track in YMCA just to shed the extra few (40-50) pounds that I gained after joining cognizant for work. I am still clueless on how I really gained so much weight; probably lot got to do with my moms cooking. Running helped me a lot to reduce the extra pounds, I feel lot fitter now. Yesterday my dream came true, I ran the entire stretch of Lake Scranton in 45 mins.