Writing about Running

A diary, mostly about running, by Aseem Vadehra

Travelling down the same road

Again and again. So many runs on this road. But just like so many other roads over the years. These roads become my intimate friends.

We instantly started off on a fast note – a whole bunch of track kids and I – out from the track parking to the L shaped out and back that makes perfect 90 degrees when I review it on the Garmin map.

Checking off a mile at bakhtavar chowk and then pushing the accelerator. A bunch of them peeled off, racing ahead.

I was fine where I was. Fast enough for a so-called easy run. The weather was much better than yesterday so we pushed on, settling into a rhythm of each kilometre about five seconds of the other.

Going hard in the final stretch, I yelled out to Coach Ravi saying we would do ABC’s in the parking lot.

At home, it was a full workout starting with the bars and then moving into a steady circuit of to round up the morning.


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