Amit's Ramble on September 25th, 2005
Hello everyone
The rambles, with due nods to gracious Chuck of the ramble fame, are back. This is Amit, and I am here with Tarun, our intrepid fearless leader and co-author of this
newsletter. And we are going to rant and rave.
The first point of digression, please watch `The Constant Gardener.' It is an amazing movie and is beautifully done. I was beautifully done yesterday in the cold while getting to Madison Park. And I was very happy to start running, and keep running as a way to keep warm. Hey Chuck, is that actually part of the plan? Ha!
Chuck also gave a nice little talk to a bunch of us about the race day running.
He emphasized the importance of running together as a group on that day as that
will be like a `billboard moving through the race.' I agree. Also discovered, courtesy Theresa (hope I got the spelling right,) a dollar fifty for a pair of gloves at the Red Apple grocery store.
Very useful for running in this cold. The Dollar Store at Ballard also has them.
I bought couple of pairs yesterday and as they are super cheap, they can be discarded on the long runs.
In order to help out with Katrina relief, Art of Living Youth (an international
humanitarian non profit organization) is organizing a 5K run on October 9th, 2005 in
Greenlake. If interested, you can find more information at http://www.artoflivingyouth.org/run/. There will be a link for the same on miles4smiles homepage. Given the nature and organizational structure of Asha for Education, we cannot direct funds to Katrina Relief or anywhere else apart from India. So, we have decided to help out this way (by promoting other orgs on
our website who are working towards the Katrina relief). OK, onto business…
First, Runner of the Week… well actually now we have multiples as this ramble is
two weeks late so here they come. So from last week, it goes to Vibhavaree Gargeya
for running consistently and hard! No matter how hard it rains or how warm/cold it
gets. And from this week, it goes to Vikas Khandelwal and Rohan Shetty. Chuck is pretty hopeful that they may be able to upgrade from half to full. Let's see what they decide! And from my side, it also goes to one and only Tarun for going dancing dandiya after his 17 mile run. Woohoooo!!!! Party animal!!!
For the wonderful award of the Absentee of the Week, from last week we have
Pooja Taskar. After showing up for two consecutive sessions, she is again gone in
oblivion?. Come back to us Pooja!
And from this week we have Snigdha and Lavanya. After showing up for the first few sessions consistently, they are busy with their work?. The fearless one will be talking to their bosses soon. Beware!
A big welcome from the Miles4Smiles family to Rick, Gwenn Forrest, Vikas, Lubdha, Rohan, Vishal, and Neha. Some updates on the website: Profiles will be up in next few days for Sumanth, Aki and Kathleen. If you have not sent your profile so far, send it soon to Tarun (tarun.bhalla@gmail.com). Pictures of the hiking trip shall also be available on the website soon.
And with this, we wrap up this ramble. And I am off for some hoppy brew forlunch. Hope you guys have a great week, good runs, and see you at training.
-Amit
The rambles, with due nods to gracious Chuck of the ramble fame, are back. This is Amit, and I am here with Tarun, our intrepid fearless leader and co-author of this
newsletter. And we are going to rant and rave.
The first point of digression, please watch `The Constant Gardener.' It is an amazing movie and is beautifully done. I was beautifully done yesterday in the cold while getting to Madison Park. And I was very happy to start running, and keep running as a way to keep warm. Hey Chuck, is that actually part of the plan? Ha!
Chuck also gave a nice little talk to a bunch of us about the race day running.
He emphasized the importance of running together as a group on that day as that
will be like a `billboard moving through the race.' I agree. Also discovered, courtesy Theresa (hope I got the spelling right,) a dollar fifty for a pair of gloves at the Red Apple grocery store.
Very useful for running in this cold. The Dollar Store at Ballard also has them.
I bought couple of pairs yesterday and as they are super cheap, they can be discarded on the long runs.
In order to help out with Katrina relief, Art of Living Youth (an international
humanitarian non profit organization) is organizing a 5K run on October 9th, 2005 in
Greenlake. If interested, you can find more information at http://www.artoflivingyouth.org/run/. There will be a link for the same on miles4smiles homepage. Given the nature and organizational structure of Asha for Education, we cannot direct funds to Katrina Relief or anywhere else apart from India. So, we have decided to help out this way (by promoting other orgs on
our website who are working towards the Katrina relief). OK, onto business…
First, Runner of the Week… well actually now we have multiples as this ramble is
two weeks late so here they come. So from last week, it goes to Vibhavaree Gargeya
for running consistently and hard! No matter how hard it rains or how warm/cold it
gets. And from this week, it goes to Vikas Khandelwal and Rohan Shetty. Chuck is pretty hopeful that they may be able to upgrade from half to full. Let's see what they decide! And from my side, it also goes to one and only Tarun for going dancing dandiya after his 17 mile run. Woohoooo!!!! Party animal!!!
For the wonderful award of the Absentee of the Week, from last week we have
Pooja Taskar. After showing up for two consecutive sessions, she is again gone in
oblivion?. Come back to us Pooja!
And from this week we have Snigdha and Lavanya. After showing up for the first few sessions consistently, they are busy with their work?. The fearless one will be talking to their bosses soon. Beware!
A big welcome from the Miles4Smiles family to Rick, Gwenn Forrest, Vikas, Lubdha, Rohan, Vishal, and Neha. Some updates on the website: Profiles will be up in next few days for Sumanth, Aki and Kathleen. If you have not sent your profile so far, send it soon to Tarun (tarun.bhalla@gmail.com). Pictures of the hiking trip shall also be available on the website soon.
And with this, we wrap up this ramble. And I am off for some hoppy brew forlunch. Hope you guys have a great week, good runs, and see you at training.
-Amit
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