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2025

New Running Shoes - 01

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.

Running Training Log - 00

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.

Getting Back to Running

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.

Re-Building my blog again

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,

Manaslu Circuit 2025

It was 6th Jan, 2025 and I was talking to a friend about going on the Basic Mountaineering Course and plans further on. We both agreed that I would not want to return to civilization after the course. Moreover, I was already planning some solo hikes to complete after the course was over. So he suggested that I should think of joining him for the Manaslu Circuit in May. This was just an idea at that point as he didn't even have a team and absolutely nothing was planned. I said yes and that was that.

This turned out to be one of the most exciting things I have ever said yes to. We recruited other members and soon we had a team of 6. I had a LOT of fun talking to our Sherpa in Nepal. This is the first time I am doing something like this and it is extremely fun. Since Manaslu Circuit falls in the Manaslu Circuit Restricted Area, we have to have a guide with us. This made things slightly more expensive, but overall the costs are still lower as we are sharing the fixed costs between the 6 of us. The trail is about 170km which generally takes about 14 days to walk. We made minor changes to the trail which I shall write about once I get back from the trail.

MapTools

A list of all the tools that I use to play with maps and gpx files. This assumes that you are familiar with OpenStreetMaps.

Some of these tools are proprietary and some are FOSS. I generally prefer to use FOSS tools whenever I can.