Aukaad !

Do you have any words ? do you ?

Lok Satta - Campaigning !

My pal who is canvassing for Lok Satta elaborates:

Lok Satta founded by Dr. Jayaprakash Narayan as an NGO which successfully brought in various electoral reforms and helped in the creation of other important laws like RTI. Now it has turned into a political party and it is planning to contest all the assembly seats in AP. It has recently opened branches in Karnataka and Maharashtra.

Website:
www.loksatta.org

Lok Satta agenda briefly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ri7Qf7AKQRA&feature=PlayList&p=40A8827667D5DD12&playnext=1&index=5

About Dr. JP:
http://www.loksatta.org/jaiprakash.php

One of the best speeches. Given at Mumbai University Must listen:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4xFCdOYTv4 (part 1) listen to part2 and part 3 for sure.

I was totally amazed by JP's speech last year when I saw this video. Tell you what, you must read their FAQs as well.

Critical Mass - Bangalore

Kanishka from Team Asha once told me about this once a month meet-up of cyclists.

Check out their blog and I hope to join them soon.
http://criticalmassbangalore.blogspot.com/

Speed Runs Begin

Seems like Hyderabad, my home town, always gets the best out of me and I'm sure it is just the beginning. Called up Sidd for a run but looks like he didn't make it and thankfully the Hyderabad runners were planing a 10K loop around KBR park and Banjara Hills. Caught with with Satish, Vasu and Prasad. It was a great run at least by my standards and the last 3KM were done at a pretty decent pace and I locked into Satish's pace.

I've been pacing around 10KMPH al this while and today was the day to break the 60 minute barrier and we completed around 10.5KM in about 55 minutes. Good start for my speed runs and the idea is to do a half marathon sub 2 hours by middle of this year. A 50 (~49) minute 10K is what I'll be looking at Sunfeast 10K this May in Bangalore.

May be I should just go for the Tibet Marathon this year (just too tempted!). Good start to a new running season ! Shumit has been another force behind speed runs !

Keep Miling !