Get Off Your Arse: A ran-dumb blog to get you moving, by a bit of a nudge and a bit of a push.

4hr Full & 2hr Half Marathon plan: WEEK 22
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4hr Full & 2hr Half Marathon plan: WEEK 22

This is a 4hr full and 2hr half marathon plan for a marathon in 3 weeks time. This week the intent is to do the last long run. At all times remember to stay soft on your feet and try to keep your running as effortless as you possibly can. 

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4 hr full & 2 hr half marathon plan: week 21
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4 hr full & 2 hr half marathon plan: week 21

This is week 21 of a 4hr full and 2hr half marathon plan. No, it's not supposed to be easy. I'll push you hard to get to your time but remember that you aren't a product of an assembly line and you aren't in a rat race. At the end of the day if you aren't smiling and miling at the same time, you are missing out on something big. 

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Project GOYA: Get Off Your Arse
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Project GOYA: Get Off Your Arse

The START is what STOPS most people. You've got to start somewhere, sometime... let right now, right here be it. We'll start together with baby steps, one step, one day at a time, and over next 100 days surprise ourselves with the new you. Get Off Your Arse (GOYA) now.

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Feet of Clay: What's your weak-link?
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Feet of Clay: What's your weak-link?

We all have our Achilles Heel, weakness in spite of overall strength, which can actually or potentially lead to our downfall. It is very important we recognise it and work on it. It is very easy to blind ourselves to our own weaknesses. Here is a story 633BC which you most probably haven't heard about and even if you have, have never related to it like this. 

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Week 20/24: 4hr Full Marathon Plan
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Week 20/24: 4hr Full Marathon Plan

This is 20/24 week 4hr full marathon training plan. It is not going to be walk in the park, but a bit of running. It's doable if you think you and if you want it bad enough. Now Get Off Your royal Arse and get moving. 

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Sitting Squats: Exercise of the Day
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Sitting Squats: Exercise of the Day

Sitting is the new smoking. It's now responsible for a quarter of deaths. Since death is inevitable, Calvin has decided to master the art, along with Hobbes. Lets take it to the next level, sitting against the wall squats, as if you are sitting on a chair. 

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Pain Anonymous: Lets talk about Pain
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Pain Anonymous: Lets talk about Pain

'Pain is what the world does to you, Suffering is what you do to yourself.'

Lets understand what is pain all about and lets stop this suffering. Its ignorance that leads to more suffering. And it is optional. Pain is a mere messenger.

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Week 19 Full Marathon Plan: Sub 4hr
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Week 19 Full Marathon Plan: Sub 4hr

Majority of humans are capable of doing a marathon in under 4 hrs, just that they don't believe they can. Start with wanting to. Soon you will. 

This is a sub 4 hr full marathon training plan targeting New Delhi Marathon (NDM) which is on 26th Feb. This plan is really for those who’ve managed to do half marathon in last couple of months in under 2 hours and full marathon distance in last few weeks in sub 4 hours 15 min.

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