Rest today.
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Hit the park again and began an easy run that turned into a progressive until I was positively winded at the end.
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Started the new session today. Because I had been awake for ages, I wasn’t sure whether I would be up to the interval session. But I went to Nehru Park and slammed them through the post.
Solid run followed by a workout.
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Rest day today. Perhaps reasonably deserved after a good streak of running.
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Last night was a celebration to bring in Gokul’s 50th. It was a super fun night and as expected, it went on till late. This morning, slightly woozy, but overall good, I decided to put in long run Sunday in the evening. There was another dinner at his home today and I didn’t quite want to miss the training.
I chose to go to Sri Fort where my running journey began. It’s been ages since I’ve run at Sri Fort and especially since I did a long run here. It was immediately comfortable albeit the weather that bore down on me like a heat blanket.
The longer route is about 1050m, so nineteen rounds later I was done, dusted, and drenched.
Every time I come here I remember the first thirty kilometres that I did here by way of thirty rounds. But back then (about twenty years ago or more) it was the shorter route that I now know is just under one kilometre. But at the time, I ran Sri Fort assuming it was one kilometre because it said so on a board with a map chalked out. Why and how anyone needed a map for a route that was a straightforward loop isn’t quite clear to me.
It was raining heavily that morning and an old colleague and friend, Vidya, waited while I finished, cheering me on each round. In my memory, she and I were the only people on the track that monsoon morning.
I thought of this and other thoughts flickering like fireflies and completed one of the most satisfying runs of the summer.
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It’s been a while since I did mile repeats. The first few were fine. The next two went ka-boom! Part of the game. And certainly the weather isn’t helping. The humidity is like a sandwich in the air.
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The young boy and I set off together on his birthday morning. It’s been a long time since we ran together; what better than today. We had decided the loop sequence beforehand. He struggled but powered on.
A good litmus test is always if the last kilometre is strong and it was. The struggle is temporary and often inevitable. Afterwards we went to Fig and picked up fresh lime sodas to go.
On the way home, the aforementioned sequence of songs across genres, chosen by him, rounded up a perfect birthday morning.
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I thought I would be terribly slow today. But fortunately, my legs kept up a reasonable pace. At home, I tried a new workout routine for half hour that was seemingly easy. It was a bit of a deception.
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Started easy and kept increasing and pushing the pedal every couple of kilometres until I was absolutely winded at the end. Back at home, the THENX core workout hammered it home.
