RAL began standardising colours nearly a 100 years ago. This morning, down Shanti Path, the sky began its magical change at just about the 5:20 AM mark, give or take a minute or so. I wanted to remember the colour as I saw it. I looked at it hard – with as much concentration as I could – to remember a colour – that would change rapidly as dawn proceeded.
The colour I saw was RAL 5000 – Violet blue. And on another day, the shade could be a RAL 5003 – Sapphire blue.
I don’t think an artist would paint the changing sky in this manner (could an artist paint a changing sky?) but it satisfied me to find the colour I was looking for.
There was scarcely one more runner in the area when I began and perhaps a dozen when I finished an easy morning in the Nehru Park area. I had been watching videos on strides and high knees and I ended with some hundred metre efforts that felt clunky and clumsy.
It is not my effort is to be an elegant runner – I think that possibility didn’t ever exist – it is my effort in observing what tends to just touch upon aspects of running that I have barely explored. Apparently, even as I am now, lumbering away, it should add something.
At any rate, as aforementioned, at the very least it lends to observance.
Of high knee strides and RAL colours in the sky.
Writing about Running 