The good news. Winter gear is off. Only the beanie remains. Non-Sharia compliant gear is on.
The bad news. Crashed and burned at 12.1k mark. Couldn't finish 15k.
The good news. Shaved 3 minutes off 10k time from last week. SB now @ 1:15:53
2/ In training, you take whatever you can get, whenever you can get it.
I was lucky today. Two pacers to help stay within the pacing zone. Will shave another 15 seconds per km off when I switch to adizero from my current trainers.
3/ Would have taken the day off tomorrow if I had knocked out the 15k today. Will try again next Saturday.
More good news. Looks like another long run for what promises to be a brilliant Sunday morning.
Training begins when you have nothing left to give.
4/ For faster recovery and turnaround from hard training consuming 2 kino+4 dates+3 dried figs+a liter of water as soon as I change into dry clothes after run.
Ice bath for legs and hot chocolate with coffee as soon as I get home. Seems to be doing the trick for now.
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1/ A thread on my first startup, venture number one. With pit stops in NYC, LA, DC, Dubai & Karachi.
Avicena. Mar '99. May '01. E-Education.
Analyst and Associate training programs for Wall Street. Continuing professional education (CPE) for actuaries and accountants.
2/ By the time I landed at @Columbia_Biz I had already been blessed by outstanding teachers. But nothing had prepared me for the hidden rock stars in the program.
My 3 electives that term were International Marketing, Emerging Financial Markets and Continuous Time Finance.
3/ I had exempted out of 3 course to take the 3 electives, was auditing accounting, had Micro and Marketing with my batch.
By March I had started thinking of ways that I could share what I was learning with friends and students back home. Level the playing field, somehow.
a) Run the NYC Marathon
b) Write a book
c) Produce a play on Broadway
For a kid who used the G-3 bus to get to Regal chowk for high school and W-18 to get to campus on Bhains colony, these were all moon shots.
2/ I knew they weren't real and it would take more than an alignment of planets to get me to a stage where these would become more than wishful thinking.
But I continued to dream and added more to the list.
Might as well be a traveler of the world, in business class, no less.
3/ The NYC marathon was an evolved version of an earlier dream.
One that involved running track for the national team.
Once I figured that I was too old for that to happen, I accepted a simpler version. I would be happy running a marathon. NYC would do just fine.
This is not the first time we have been blind sided. This is not going to be the last time.
This is also not the end. Yes it hurts. Yes you have a right to feel miserable and depressed.
But remember, you are stronger than this.
2/ Stability and continuity of policy has been a national weakness since our very beginning. We are not new to this.
Handling this is programmed into our DNA. We always figure a way out. Takes time but we crack the code or get through to saner voices on the other side.
3/ In the mean time focus on your work, on what you can and do control. Don't waste your breath or time wallowing in self pity or darkness beyond tonight.
Yes it is a lousy hand, but you can't change the cards. Move on.