I woke up this morning in Bombay with an urgent need to run. It was of course propelled further that I was in Bombay in relatively much cleaner air and good weather.
I headed to the Queen’s Necklace that was already teeming with people. A running group seemed to be doing intervals. Many runners wore t shirts from previous marathons. I would imagine that most runners here were preparing for next Sunday’s Bombay marathon. But there were also plenty of walkers, yoga groups, smattering of early morning couples and families.
From one end of Nariman Point to the other, exactly where the sidewalk gave way to a busy intersection, in that perfect arc of Marine Drive, it was exactly 3.4 kilometres. I did two back and forth’s and with less than a mile to go, I rounded it up to a very satisfying fifteen kilometre run.
Writing about Running 