These are the two main cornerstones of my personality. Like any other coherent consciousness and too feel a tension between intent vs perception
I did some thinking and figured that the best course of action was to write.
For the longest time I wasn't interested in cooking. I only cooked enough to make food edible for myself, and even that felt like a complex project with little return.
After moving to Bangalore and finding my community, I started taking part in shared routines — hanging out, grocery runs, and informal gatherings. I moved to Bangalore to be closer to friends; to have a village you have to be a villager.
I signed up for a trail run in Coorg called The Coffee Trails 3.0. This is the Instagram Account; please check them out.
I have never participated in a trial run before and I felt that I needed some benchmark just to understand how the entire experience is.
Ive spent a LOT of time belong alone; not just in the physical sense but also in the psychological sense.
I have become an extremely independent person as a result. This super-power comes with its own problems.
For the largest part of my life I have been very very afraid of failing at things.
I have noticed that I do not hold space for myself to fail; even at things that I am just a beginner in.
Last week Tanvi went shoe shopping; she wanted a new running shoe. I went along with her and tried a bunch of them.
What happened next can only be described as magical.
Last month I decided that I would start training to run some of the ultras that happen in India. I wrote about it here. I am targetting to run the SRT ultra 25k. Its a small length but I'm hoping that this would be a good start to my trail-running journey.
The focus of the first month of training was mostly on slow easy runs, which was fun and I got some great volume work done. This was not as structured as I would have liked.
I ran my first half-marathon today. It was quite brutal and overall a very humbling experience.
Check details on Strava
I injured my right knee while running way back in 2023. I remember stepping on a rock badly and that was it. :-/
What followed was about half a year of extreme pain and 1 year of recovery aided by physiotherapy.
I took the opportunity in my break to try and play with some tools that better
suited my blogging / notes style. I found TiddlyWiki which is a very good tool,