Its been a couple of days that I discovered that Google had enabled Get Directions for their Google India maps. This means, you can enter any starting and destination locations on their website (maps.google.com ), and they automatically draw the shortest/best route on the map. Below is an example route drawn by the software from Indirapuram [...]
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Event dates: Mar 24th – Mar 29th, 2009Venue: Gachibowli Stadium, Hyderabad Updates: Mar 29: Taufik wins in straight sets. Indians Jwala/Diju lose in the finals. Mar 28: Jwala/Diju move into mixed finals! Hafiz Hashim and Taufik Hidayat set up an exciting mens final! Mar 27: Saina loses to 6th ranked Julia Pei Xian WONG Just [...]
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Update Mar 13: Pain wins this time. 2010 event awaited. The 5K run at my place of work is an annual event. It started off a couple of years ago as a charity run for various causes, and has been an out and out success. To put it into perspective, more than half the employees [...]
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I had heard of this exotic group called Marathon Maniacs, and in fact knew about a couple of people who were there on its list of maniacs. Today, I went to their website and found that they in fact have an entry criteria for being an official maniac. There are several levels of maniacs, starting [...]
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Well, I had been thinking of doing this for a long time, and had ownership of my domain name for years now, so finally today I did a quick google search of how to use a custom domain name, tanvirkazmi.com, for my blog instead of the longer tanvirkazmi.blogspot.com. Below is one of the links on [...]
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IAAF does accreditation of road races every year and assigns Gold and Silver labels to those it selects, indicating the significance of the race. Last year was the first time that the Delhi Half Marathon was accredited with the Gold label. Mumbai Marathon has been assigned the Silver label. In 2009, India retains its accreditations. [...]
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I have been looking out for some serious motivational stuff in recent weeks, and finally decided to take a plunge into some of the stuff which I have been putting down for a long time. I ordered the following books online from indiaplaza.in (which I find to be the most reasonable online book store in [...]
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This is my official “Welcome to 2009” post. As I sit in front of my computer doing absolutely nothing, and with no late night parties, I wonder what the new year has in store for me. As always, this blog, and almost all my posts have something to do with running (or sports). So let [...]
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It was some months back when I read this article in the RunnersWorld on the quality of running surfaces and their comparison. Today, I tried to google my way to locate the same article, and finally found it. It is an interesting read, where the authors rate various running surfaces on a scale of 10. [...]
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