Thorns

Two thorns got stuck in my soles yesterday. I sat after dinner with a needle probing my heel to find them. It was fun back then when we were kids. We would try taking out thorns from each others' feet and admiring how big a thorn was from someone's feet. We took pride in inserting the needle at 3-4 points in the soles as if the soles were a cloth. :D Then we used to sit for sometime with a godly smile on our faces.

With growing age, playing ceased (in my case)  or was shifted to playgrounds (my brother's case). No more thorns. A small woodland in Delhi brought back the experience but there was is no one now to probe the soles, to press the needle hard into the feet deliberately so that we could have some laugh after a brief moment of pain. We all got sophisticated.

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Ultrarunning and Age.

Two papers published recently tell that ultrarunners are in general more healthy and biologically younger than their actual age. Well, you would be better off if you just ignore all this and try achieving your own goals of running. My aim to be able to run most of the day at a time but all I can say is it can only make me more fit and not healthy or younger. I read the paper which talks about the younger thing. I would throw that in dustbin if I had a printed version.

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