🏃‍♂️ Running Journey 2026 – Week 34 Update

 🏃‍♂️ Running Journey 2026 – Week 34 Update

June and July  was not one of my best Months.

I could feel some slackness creeping into my routine, and the consistency that I have been trying to build over the year started slipping. There were days when it was easier to postpone, easier to skip, and easier to tell myself that I would make it up later.

But running has taught me one important lesson:

Every fall is an opportunity to rise again.

This Month is not about pace, mileage, or personal bests. It is about recognizing where I am, accepting it, and taking the first step back towards consistency.

The positive side is that over the last 4 weeks, the mileage has been steadily increasing, and I can feel the endurance base slowly coming back. The focus now is to convert that mileage into consistency and performance.

🎯 Current Running Goals

I now have two clear goals:

1. Consistently run a 10K in under 60 minutes

2. Complete a Half Marathon in under 2 hours

The Sub-60 10K was achieved once, but the next challenge is to make it repeatable. Similarly, the Half Marathon goal will require a combination of endurance, pacing, strength, and discipline.

The goal now is simple:

• Show up.

• Follow the plan.

• Build the habit again.

• Stay consistent.

I have been here before. Every meaningful improvement in my running journey has come after a period of struggle, adjustment, and restarting.

So this is not a setback.

This is simply one more rise after a fall.

The focus for the coming weeks will be on:

• Increasing consistency

• Maintaining mileage

• Improving pace discipline

• Working towards a consistent Sub-60 10K

• Building endurance for a Sub-2 Half Marathon

One run at a time.
One day at a time.

The journey continues. 👟

Monday Musings-10/Aug | Learn FIRST. Learn FAST. Make MISTAKES. Correct FAST. Don’t REPEAT.

⚡ Learn FIRST. Learn FAST. Make MISTAKES. Correct FAST. Don’t REPEAT.

We often focus on getting things right the first time.

But when we are solving new problems, taking on bigger responsibilities, or working in unfamiliar situations, mistakes are inevitable.

 🎯 What matters is how quickly we learn and adapt.

📚 Learn FIRST
⚡ Learn FAST
🧪 Make MISTAKES
🔄 Correct FAST
🚫 Don’t REPEAT — a mistake becomes valuable only when we learn from it.

 In a fast-changing world, we may not always have the luxury of knowing everything before we begin.

 The goal isn't to make zero mistakes. It's to make new mistakes, learn faster, and become better each time.

 Have a great week ahead! 🚀

 

𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬-3/𝐀𝐮𝐠 | 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭. 𝐁𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

 

Monday Musings-3/Aug  | Build the Project. Build the Organization

I came across the inspiring story of Skyroot Aerospace.

 

📩 In 2018, founders Pawan Kumar Chandana and Naga Bharath Daka, then ISRO engineers, reached out to entrepreneur Mukesh Bansal through a cold LinkedIn message with an ambitious dream — to build rockets privately in India.

 

Bansal responded, met them that weekend, and eventually became their first investor with ₹10 crore.

At that point, there was no rocket, no established private space ecosystem in India, and certainly no guarantee of success.

What existed was a bold vision and the conviction to pursue it.

 

🚀 Years later, Skyroot would go on to make history with India's first privately developed rocket launch.

But what stayed with me was the advice Bansal gave the founders:

 

💬 “Always do the right thing. This journey will be much longer and much harder than you imagine. Build two things with equal importance — the product and the organization.”

 

💡 A great reminder for all of us.

Whatever we are building — a product, program, interfaces,  capability or transformation — what we deliver matters, but so does the team and organization we build along the way.

 

🚀 Build the outcome. Build the organization. And always do the right thing.

Have a wonderful week ahead! ✨

July Running

 Some how lost the consistency and need to build it back, this is the challenge i have been facing in past and fell prey to the same.

Need to get this cone corrected, I think the mail reason is not focussing with an event.

Hope the august will be targetted better.

Actions to  be Taken

1.Dont miss 2 consecutive Days

2. Target Weekl Mileage.

🌅 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 | 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 26

 🌅 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 | 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 26

🎬 Over the weekend, I had a chance to watch The Odyssey. It was a great experience, especially on the big screen. Beyond the scale of the story, what stayed with me was how different characters and moments carried different messages about the journey we all go through.

💭𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭, 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫, 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞:

🎯 Making it to our “𝐈𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐜𝐚” — reaching our destination and fulfilling our true purpose — takes more than battling the monsters around us. Sometimes, the more important battle is with the monsters within.

🪞 Our fears, doubts, ego, impatience, resistance to change, or even the comfort of staying where we are can sometimes become bigger obstacles than the challenges in front of us.

🌊 At work and in life, we will always have our own versions of rough seas and unexpected challenges. We may not control all of them, but we can choose 𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦.

🧭 Perhaps the journey is not only about 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐨 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐲..

🌱 As we start another week, a thought to carry with us:

❓ ❓ 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞 “𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧” 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐈𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐜𝐚?

✨ Have a wonderful week ahead!

 

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Running Journey : Week 24/25 Update

 Running Journey : Week 24/25 Update

The week of 24 was washout nothing much was done, this really tested my consistency and due to other priorities especially the bad sleep pushed me out of the consistenly.

I ensure week 25 shoule be controlled back and managed to complete all run sessions and the Gym is yet to resume back.

Managing the time is becoming priority, as there are some time to be planned for others tasks in the morning.

So the plan is to hit the roads by 5.00 , and i am running around my backyard to save my travelling time

The below workouts is the summary

June 18 - 6 Kms Planned completed but could not do the steps.

June 20 - 1 Hour run it was, i managed to clock 9.2 Kms in 60 Mins

June 21- 5 Km Run ( SLR) Manged to complete it at 6.5 Pace.

One good thing i can put here is the consisteny in the Diet, I have planned to be on lighter diet as below.

2-3 Chappati/Roti - Break fast/Lunch/ Dinner

2 - Egg - Breakfast / Lunch

1- Cup of Curd.-Break fast/Lunch/ Dinner

This is going to be 100 Meal program out which 24 meal was sucessfull and today 25th meal has become a cheat. So 1/4 of the target is completed.

So the target for this week 

Workout 1  - Run + Gym - Not to skip

Workout 2- Evening Yoga/ Stretches to be added

Diet - To continue same may be add some veggies along with this.

The weight is hoovering around 72 and need to bring down to 70 and stay consistent here.

will keep you posted on the progress.

Nature Walk - Bangalore University !!

 I was happy to be part of the Nature walk in the Bangalore university !!