From Stumble to Almost Flawless
A semester of public speaking at Fisher, from being stopped mid-presentation to a final Muppets pitch the professor called otherwise flawless.
I'm Aravind. This is where I document what I'm building: ongoing notes from my MBA classes, project work, and the story behind it all.
Analytics Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Working Professional MBA at Ohio State's Fisher College of Business. Columbus, OH.
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I went back to the Columbus Marathon to chase my 2023 PR and missed it by 73 seconds. The data tells a more interesting story than the result does.
Read the postA semester of public speaking at Fisher, from being stopped mid-presentation to a final Muppets pitch the professor called otherwise flawless.
I pulled every run I've logged on Strava since 2019 and turned it into an interactive dashboard: 711 runs, 3,922 miles and a map of the 29 places I've run.
The relaunched site is live, with my About Me, resume and a few older posts brought over from my old Google Sites page.
I've signed up for the 2025 Columbus Marathon, and this time I'm running to beat my personal best of 3 hours and 47 minutes.
Tanya Menon's Organizational Behavior course at Fisher broke becoming a better leader down into something testable: six specific roles, each with its own diagnostic tools and case studies.
Running Dashboard: 8 Years of Strava Data
An interactive dashboard built from my own Strava export: 700+ runs, 3,900+ miles, broken down by year, shoe, workout type, and an actual map of everywhere I've run.
| Year | Race | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Columbus Marathon | 3:48:25 | 73 seconds off the PR |
| 2025 | Columbus Marathon | 4:13 | Rolled ankle, heavy downpour |
| 2023 | Columbus Marathon | 3:47:12 | First marathon, still the PR |