Road Session with the Group

I arrived a bit late and walked sheepishly toward the track gang – standing in a line – waiting for me for the road run.

We started right away and as before with Coach Ravi on the bicycle. Jeet and Ashwini as always took off. At first they were a few steps further, then fifty, then hundred metres and before long they were a speck in the far distance.

There were new folks today but I was buttressed between Khushbu on one side, the Coach on the other, and Dipasha right behind.

We slowly increased the pace until at the U-turn where we stabilised at a pace give or take a few seconds. Usually it is at this point that Suryansh and I significantly shift gears and run the second half faster. But today in his absence and still reeling from yesterday’s intervals, I kept it at an easier effort.

The last kilometre or two, it was worth pushing and that ended a good session out with the group.