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My First Marathon - how I went from 2k to 42K in 5 Months

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2020 has been a weird year. It has brought pain and misery for millions of people across the globe due to the dreaded Corona virus, but it has been especially sad for me given my peculiar situation. To be fair, it did start on a more upbeat note with a trip to Mexico for 2 weeks close on the heels of my return from India to Toronto in February. (More on those 2 weeks in a separate post) Anyways, almost within a week of my return from Cancun to Toronto in March, all of North America witnessed a surge in Coronavirus numbers and US and Canada were put on a lockdown - we were told to work from home for the foreseeable future (something we had anyways been doing since last year). I already had a weight management plan in mind before this, but the virtual lockdown of the city expedited things and forced me to think of creative ways to be able to spend more time in the outdoors - as sitting inside closed doors was becoming increasingly frustrating. With the Toronto winter still in full swing ...
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Trip to Vancouver/Whistler/Seattle - Day 3 - Whistler

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So we got up grudgingly in the fabulous hotel at around 6 am, which was easier due to the 3 hour time difference from Toronto (so we actually woke up at 9 am!) We had breakfast at the makeshift lounge, as the original was unfortunately under renovation (I'd read great reviews about it being a class apart as well). Apart from the usual fare, the thing I remember most is their 7 or 8 varieties of  freshly squeezed bottled fruit and vegetable juice mixes.  After having a heavy breakfast, we packed up and started for the short and beautiful drive along the Sea to Sky highway from Vancouver to Whistler. We hardly stopped anywhere on the way except to click a few pics of the beautiful vistas emerging in front of us, and I guess pictures would really be worth a thousand words here...  Sea to sky highway As it was just a 90 minute drive, we reached the hotel fairly early. We were staying at the Delta Marriott hotel right in the middle of ...
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Trip to Vancouver/Whistler/Seattle - Day 1 and 2 - Vancouver

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After a pretty long sabbatical, I guess I'm back to blogging - at least to write travelogues. After all travelling is one of those few things I enjoy the most, and it would be unfortunate if I do not write my experiences for posterity - not just for others to read and perhaps get some travel tips to the places I go to, but also for myself to read and reminisce at a later stage. Also, being in the line of work that I am in, I guess writing is the only way I get to flex my creative muscles, no matter how atrophied they may have become in the last decade of disuse. Enough of a background, let's get to business. This post would be about the recently concluded trip to Vancouver-Whistler-Seattle from 2nd August to 6th August, 2018. Let me start by confessing that Canada is a beautiful country - even more so than it's disproportionately popular neighbor to the South. I have nothing against the U.S. - I lived there for 3 years before moving northwards, and loved every trip I ...
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Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
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