Thamara Kandabada
Thamara Kandabada
I’m Thamara, furniture-peddler by day and wearer-of-many-hats by night. I like to watch films, enjoy live music, tinker with this website, play guitar, and run in my free time. I'm currently based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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I'm almost thereOn Tuesday, I finished week 8 of the program. The 3 runs followed this format: 5-minute warm-up walk 28-minute run 5-minute cool-down walk I picked a slightly different route for the first run. I ran very slowly while listening to Nina Simone and Otis Redding. On the second run, I felt an extra boost...
It’s like any other dayOn Friday I turned 32. My wife made me a cinnamon bun cheesecake and we had her signature kiribath (milk rice) and loonu thel dala (caramelised onions cooked with spices and tamarind paste) for breakfast. After work, we went to an Italian restaurant near where we live for dinner. A quiet day,...
25-minute running interval: conquered!Week 7 of the program, which I finished today, has a consistent schedule. 3 runs, all following this format: 5-minute warm up walk 25-minute run 5-minute cool-down walk The first one was excruciating. Having done the same 25-minute run on Week 6 Run 3, I went into it expecting...
A work in progressMy plan for the new website includes a brand new design, centred around the typeface Maiola and heavily influenced by the design of the This American Life website. I’ve made some progress in the past week with the migration, in that a portion of its skeleton has been written in HTML. The serious...
Hello markdownWhen my Astro migration is complete, I will have to set used to writing in markdown exclusively. I thought I should get a headstart on it. My first instinct was to find a markdown writer that will sync across devices—my two Macs and the iPhone—and ideally have a web interface as well. Turns out, such...
Can I call myself a runner now?After a strenuous end to week 5 of the programme, week 6 reverts to a shorter running interval at the beginning and ramps up significantly towards the end. Here are the 3 runs: Run 1 5-minute warm up walk 5-minute run 3-minute walk 8-minute run 3-minute walk 5-minute run 5-minute...
Among nature, music, and art Last night we returned home to Belfast after a weekend in Scotland (mostly Glasgow). I went to see Big Thief there at the beautiful Barrowland Ballroom. I generally go on these weekend concert trips on my own, because The Good Lady Paralegal Her Indoors has no interest in live music (or...
Aka, you can write anywhereI’m currently standing inside Glasgow’s beautiful Barrowland Ballroom, surrounded by some hundreds of strangers, waiting for Big Thief to take the stage. I’m the kind of person who usually needs ideal conditions to do certain things. Writing generally is one of those things. I need to be...
Making steady progressThe three runs for week 5 of Couch to 5K are not all the same. There’s a gradual increase from run 1 to run 2. Run 3 is a different beast altogether. There must be a logic to it that I don’t see, but it’s an inordinate increase, and I’ve been dreading it for days. Run 1 5-minute warm up walk...
Picking up an old habit againReading used to be a favourite pastime of mine. For someone who used to ignore school homework to read books instead, I fell off the wagon very hard in my early twenties. I can’t quite put my finger on what did it; but the long and short of it is that I didn't read very much in the past...
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