2 days ago6-Week Marathon Journey (Part 3)Final installment! Here are Part 1 and Part 2. Race Day The NN Rotterdam marathon 2024 started at 10:00 AM for elite runners, and at...
5 days ago6-Week Marathon Journey (Part 2)While consistent and thorough training obviously matters, a big part of running long distance is getting into the right mental state of...
Apr 176-Week Marathon Journey (Part 1)Oops, I did it again! My second full marathon is officially on the books. It felt like a mission impossible, but I managed. This is a...
Apr 13Sri Lanka TripWe just spent our spring family vacation in Sri Lanka: nine days of beach, hills, and cities. Our first stop after landing in Colombo was...
Mar 28Getting my scuba diving certificationLast week I took a week long trip with my family to Sri Lanka. We stayed in several places (Colombo, Unawatuna beach, Ella, Kandy) but my...
Feb 2411 Running Principles I Swear ByTo celebrate 15 years of running, completing 3 half marathons in 2024 so far, and not having knee pain anymore, I’m making a list of my...
Feb 17Fear of changeI recently started intermittent fasting. It’s partially an experiment (my husband is really into health and nutrition) and partially due...
Feb 10Working in a visa millMumbai has one of the biggest U.S. consular sections in the world and is referred to as a “visa mill” among officers. So far, I’ve...
Feb 3TDY in KolkataKolkata is India’s third largest city, located in the northeast of India near the border with Bangladesh. I should have checked a map or...