It seemed like a near repeat of last week. I was a few minutes slower overall. But it was a good effort, a good run. Déjà vu and all that.

Rest and travel back to Delhi today.

After my early class, I waited for a bit of light and stepped out at exactly six AM. Driveway run it was. No music. Just ran quietly and finished up before heading to the airport.

This morning I met my man Gaju at Nehru Park for one kilometre repeats followed by a tempo run. I slept late last night and wasn’t sure how it would go down.

The air remains slightly cool. I, for one, feel cold on my forearms, on the side, near the elbow. That all was forgotten within the first repeat itself. The repeats were a few seconds slower than I would have expected but all the same, not too shabby.

The tempo was faster than expected so that balanced it out quite nicely plus I learnt a new route that got me to six kilometres and finished just ahead of the car.

One day I would like to work out the statistical possibilities of the routes in Nehru Park. I am sure ChatGPT could do that but I would be loathe to use AI for such purpose. It would be so much more fun to do it the old fashioned way.

Back home, a solid workout rounded up a special morning.

The mornings are still pleasant although the weather is getting increasingly warmer.

I ran the driveway and finished off with a solid core workout.

Today was a rest day.

Today I felt like running outside of the usual loops at Nehru Park. After a round combining Shanti Path and Vinay Marg, Gaju and I headed out, taking Racecourse road, then Safdarjung, down Lodi, Amrita Shergill, towards Khan Market, India Gate, Raj Path, Janpath, Man Singh, and looped back down to Nehru Park and eventually rounding it up to twenty six.

A solid run, a tour of Delhi, and the scenes of dozens of women on Raj Path, this international women’s day.

I met Gaju this morning at Nehru Park. It has been a long time since we ran together.

It was a solid ten miler at tempo pace and we nailed it. Niti Marg, Shanti Path, Vinay Marg, Nyaya Marg were all our roads today. The weather was fresh. Life is good.

Slept in a bit. In fact slept after ages it seems. Went out for a short and most pleasant run in beautiful new Nike shoes.

Parul got them for me from London. The salesperson is running the Boston marathon himself. He recommended this training model that I hadn’t tried before. Runner to runner recommendation – what could be better. Certainly better than restaurant recommendations or travel destinations that are often treated with a measure of hmmm I wonder. I hope I don’t do that but if I am writing about it perhaps I am speaking to myself to be aware of such reaction.

At any rate – I would take a shoe recommendation from a Boston runner any day.

This is definitely now a pattern for the next two months. Have to adjust the routine a bit and get Friday going.