This time because of travel, I didn’t run on Tuesday.

Listening to Jacqueline du Pre before dawn at the start of the week is magical. I wonder why I don’t do this more often.

I had to travel today and I knew I would miss the Tuesday run, so I wanted to make it up.

I started off very slowly on the treadmill and increased pace through the run. The light beyond the window changed colours as Jacqueline du Pre played on weaving her magic.

It was a most satisfying start to this Monday.

So many familiar faces. A few waves here and there. Everyone here to share a run if not with someone or with a group, certainly out of the spirit of community in these roads of Nyaya Marg, Vinay Marg, Niti Marg and Shanti Path.

They provide free ground of so many types of loops and combinations for the hundreds that come here especially on Sunday morning.

The peace here.

This ground, free, sacred.

Twenty of them ! Went bananas at Nehru Park. I think this was meant to be a track run but that seemed too much. So decided to do them on the road. No music. Just the intervals with an easy run of 90 seconds between each.

The first few weren’t so great. Then better. Then the second half of the 300s, I got into the groove and started hitting the paces.

Back at home it was a solid twenty minute circuit with the young boy and then dashed off to work.

Because I missed my run yesterday, I ran today but on the driveway after a reasonable night of sleep. The young boy joined me in the middle for five rounds. A perfectly wonderful make up session.

A late evening entertaining for work and a missed run today.

Mile intervals today at the track. The pollution is incredibly bad but it is impossible for these to happen on the treadmill or with a mask.

Gaju joined me for all the repeats and it was quite relentless. Other than the first one, I aced the prescribed timings.

I’ve started to go a bit late to the track, preferring to run when the light is about to come up rather than doing most of the run in the dark.

Back home, the young boy and I did a quick, effective twenty minute workout to finish up the morning.

Because I woke up late, I jumped up on the treadmill and did an hour’s run. My shin has been hurting lately and usually warms up after a couple of kilometres. But on the treadmill, I never quite found the rhythm today.

Long today with work commitments. it’s is what it is.

I wore the mask for most of the run this Sunday as the AQI is worsening. I kind of got used to it after a while even carrying on a conversation with Gokul and increasing the pace. Towards the end, I took it off and ran “free”.

Back home, I made the young boy run on the treadmill.