Coimbatore Backyard Ultra 2.0 Cover a distance of 6.7k every hour, with no external help on the course. Support and crew are allowed before the flag off at each hour. Venue - Kumaraguru College of Technology. A beautiful campus. More than half the course had trees. It is a sweet distance for a regular exercise for a day. So much so that a bunch of my friends, athlete or not, do this in a round robin, one person a day. Thanks to the initiatives of my classmate, Balakrishnan, my crew in the earlier backyard ultra. The actual race has no end. It is played in a " Hunger Game " format. We don't kill each other. But we wait till everyone else dies. The last person still on the course is the winner. Everyone else is a DNF (Did Not Finish). I haven't trained for this race at all. I ran a 20km easy pace exactly 10 days before the race. My fitness primarily comes from my recreational badminton games. 1 hour of singles game. Twice a week. Another 2 hours of doubles game on som...
How to make kangsoi or chamthong, Manipuri staple vegetable stew? There are two styles I make. One with oil. Traditionally it used to be without oil. Without oil is what one should take if there is fever. With oil: - cut some garlic, onion - sizzle in oil, don't overheat the oil or char the garlic/onion - Add chopped vegetables (mostly green - beans or even leafy ones), potato slices. ginger and green chillies - Stir it for a couple of minutes - Add water, enough to submerge the vegetables. Too much water will reduce the taste of the soup. - Add turmeric powder, optionally a bit of pepper/jira powder - Add salt. - You can add any other vegetables that require less cooking after boiling the other vegetables for a minute. E.g. cauliflower or spinach can be added after boiling others for a minute. - You can boil without pressure, in which case, boil for about 7 minutes. - Or, close pressure cooker lid, but switch off jus...