https://gauthamsurakanti.com/Writing by Gautham Surakantihttps://gauthamsurakanti.com/hyderabad-summer-slam-10k/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/hyderabad-summer-slam-10k/Sun, 24 May 2026 08:01:38 GMTPreface Six years since I last pinned a 10K bib. Last one was the Club Run 2020. Today was the Hyderabad Slam 10K. Ashish mentioned about the race in May. I’d bhttps://gauthamsurakanti.com/bar-giving-back-2026/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/bar-giving-back-2026/Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:19:48 GMTRace report from the BAR Giving Back Duathlon 2026 in Bangalore. 30km bike + 6km run. Fifth attempt at the start line, P3 finish behind Alban and Ravi.https://gauthamsurakanti.com/week-1473/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/week-1473/Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:46:29 GMTWORK Started going a bit deeper into Golang Internals after reading about new go version and 1-billion row challenge Maps Microsoft’s 50th Anniversary – LINK Bihttps://gauthamsurakanti.com/week-1472/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/week-1472/Mon, 31 Mar 2025 10:04:50 GMTWORK Madhavan and Sid-Warrier talk about work and stress. Insightful. Made me dig a bit deeper into work-life harmony. LINK Paul Graham’s essay on How to Lose Thttps://gauthamsurakanti.com/week-1471/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/week-1471/Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:05:37 GMTCareer Work’s been hectic with limited bandwidth on the team. Releases, patches and bug-fixes Go 1.24 release notes https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.24 Went over https://gauthamsurakanti.com/thoughts-unpublished/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/thoughts-unpublished/Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:33:17 GMTI started writing on this blog since end of 2016. It’s something I really want to do but end up not allocating enough time to it. Published a total of 52 articlhttps://gauthamsurakanti.com/my-1st-ultimate-frisbee-game/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/my-1st-ultimate-frisbee-game/Sun, 02 Feb 2025 18:09:41 GMTAround the start of the new year 2025, I was watching MKBHD’s 2024 rewind. Although I knew he played Ultimate frisbee, the mention of him taking a long break frhttps://gauthamsurakanti.com/the-final-sprint-monthly-cours/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/the-final-sprint-monthly-cours/Tue, 04 Jul 2023 04:01:40 GMTThe Final Sprint @ Monthly Cours(18/06/2023) TL;DR, 📝📝Insane vibe @crankmeister 🙌🙌🙌Meticulous planning by @shaurya @ashwin and teamAdrenaline through the rhttps://gauthamsurakanti.com/150-days-of-training-with-coach-bikeyvenky-%f0%9f%ab%b6/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/150-days-of-training-with-coach-bikeyvenky-%f0%9f%ab%b6/Mon, 03 Jul 2023 03:06:18 GMTTL;DR, I’m a huge admirer of Venky – the longevity in the sport , the sheer amount of content he pushes out (blogs before and podcasts now)and the legacy he’s bhttps://gauthamsurakanti.com/week-at-a-glance-1343/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/week-at-a-glance-1343/Sun, 11 Sep 2022 19:07:19 GMTSeptember 4 – September 10 (Sun – Sat) Week Summary Career || WorkWork=> A mix of work from home and office due to Bangalore rains 🙂 got home a monitor and a nhttps://gauthamsurakanti.com/week-1342/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/week-1342/Sun, 04 Sep 2022 14:46:15 GMTAugust 29 – September 4 Week Summary Work: It was a usual work week along with a holiday on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. Nevertheless I went to work as thehttps://gauthamsurakanti.com/favourite-sports-anime-ft-haikyuu/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/favourite-sports-anime-ft-haikyuu/Sat, 03 Sep 2022 13:24:24 GMTI Haven’t watched Any Anime Naruto. One Piece. Attack of Titans. Bleach. Hunter X Hunter.and a lot lot more. I used to listen to these names from my friends righttps://gauthamsurakanti.com/a-glimpse-of-my-journey-into-spirituality/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/a-glimpse-of-my-journey-into-spirituality/Sun, 23 Jan 2022 17:07:17 GMTHave you ever got high on meditation? I did! Let me share how! Back in November 2021, I was going through a rough phase. What’s funny is there wasn’t even a spehttps://gauthamsurakanti.com/week-1307/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/week-1307/Sun, 09 Jan 2022 16:51:57 GMTWeek Summary Weekday=> The start of the week was energetic 🙂 Woke up to comments on the blogposts published late in the night about the Uttari Betta Trek. Alsohttps://gauthamsurakanti.com/whats-up-2022-reskilling-and-upskilling/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/whats-up-2022-reskilling-and-upskilling/Sat, 08 Jan 2022 16:24:00 GMTFormat: Start of a New Decade SkillUp#2022 Goals and Spheres Systems Trackers End Note Start of a New Decade Last Year I had 2 Big Goals: 1. Make a job switch thttps://gauthamsurakanti.com/a-day-trek-to-uttari-betta/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/a-day-trek-to-uttari-betta/Sun, 02 Jan 2022 19:33:17 GMTPreparation and the Night Before Unlike the usual weekends of planning to do ‘productive things’, wanted to shift that a bit and also start New Year with a freshttps://gauthamsurakanti.com/week-1306/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/week-1306/Sun, 02 Jan 2022 17:47:28 GMTFormat:1. Week Summary2. Thought Experiments/Ideas3. 3 Things4. Resources5. Photo Collage Week Summary Weekday=> Got whey protein from MuscleBlaze. The Magical https://gauthamsurakanti.com/remembering-msp-moc-and-4-years-of-toastmasters-journeyfrom-the-outside/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/remembering-msp-moc-and-4-years-of-toastmasters-journeyfrom-the-outside/Sun, 18 Oct 2020 09:59:59 GMTI was writing down my script for the Humorous Speech Contest and it was very uncomfortable writing and delivering humorous content for the first time. It is harhttps://gauthamsurakanti.com/trip-down-memory-lane-ft-hyderabad-randonneurs-at-pbp2019/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/trip-down-memory-lane-ft-hyderabad-randonneurs-at-pbp2019/Sun, 23 Aug 2020 10:52:13 GMT“Riding a bike is everything to a cyclist. The friendship and camaraderie you have with other cyclists… to a cyclist, it was the be-all and end-all of your lifehttps://gauthamsurakanti.com/road-to-paris-countdown-to-d-day/https://gauthamsurakanti.com/road-to-paris-countdown-to-d-day/Sat, 08 Aug 2020 14:12:00 GMTAugust 13, Tuesday || Pre-Race Jitters Finishing all the work and KT’s to colleagues on my absence and emails on the progress of the tasks at hand, I finally re