Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 22:03:51 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 21:24:49 GMT Content-length: 4436 Amit's personal page

Amit Shukla

[phone](608) 236 0193


o What have you been upto so far?

Well the first year I was here, I was a teaching assistant for CS302, with no life outside of work and courses. Wait! I did have some fun, with Intermediate swimming (at the SERF). I spent my first summer working at IBM's Almaden research center in San Jose, California, working on TPC-D a database benchmark for Decision Support Systems (DSS). This got me interested in OLAP, which is an acronym for OnLine Analytical Processing. On my return from Almaden, I started working for Jeff Naughton. Since spring '96, I am supported by a CAS Fellowship from IBM. I spent this summer in Toronto, which is in the state of Ontario, Canada. I was working on SMP parallelism for DB/2 Client Server.

oEnough!! Don't you have a life??

My passion is running. I run about 30 miles a week at the shell, in winter, and outdoors in summer, and dream of running a marathon some day. It is Fall, and getting colder as the days go by. I am still running outdoors. I want to run in the snow atleast once. As with any activity, running has some special needs. It is important to stretch after a run. Picking the right shoe to run in is an extremely important decision. The shoe buyer's guide should help you make a good decision. (By the way, I over-pronate, and need a shoe to fix this, so I use a Brooks Beast). It is a good idea to buy a running shoe from a retail running store.

I picked a marathon to run. The 1997 Las Vegas Marathon on Feb. 9. There is group from the UW running club planning a trip to the marathon. I now have to increase my mileage to 50 miles/week.

All ye people out there who are thinking of starting to run, take a look at some information for beginning runners. Walking is also a good fitness activity to start with if you haven't been running for some time. As a motivating factor: Do you know that Oprah Winfrey ran a marathon?

I run because I am a runner, and that's what we do.