Early morning run in a nice breezy morning. The clouds moved in quickly. Thunderstorms are imminent, per the weatherman. Not that we need any more rain in Atlanta, but we can sure do with some washing away of the pollen.
Relaxing with my Starbucks now before another hectic week begins…

5K by myself and then 5K with the group. Beautiful spring morning. The trail looked gorgeous. The men were thoroughly outnumbered by women in our group today. I recently read that last year, in US, nearly 2 million runners ran a half marathon. 61% of them were women!!!

As I finished up my 5 mile run this morning, I noticed that a fire engine as blocking my car. And all the Starbucks baristas were standing outside. Turns out there was a electrical short and a fire scare.

We could not go inside. And I could not pull my car out. So I chatted with the baristas standing outside till they fixed the problem. Then settled down with my coffee….

Put in a 5K before the group showed up and then posted another 5K with the group… Check out the color coordination for Sharmila and myself 🙂

WHAT is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?
– W .H.Davies

During the morning run this morning stopped by multiple times to take pictures of flowers by the roadside completely drenched in rain.

Probably the last sub-freezing temp run of this season. Will miss the cold runs… Hopefully the warmer temps mean I will put longer distances….
5K in 28F

The prospect of impending rain did not keep the Chalupa runners from showing up! Fortunately, the rains held up till just about the time we finished. What was amazing was that we had an elementary school student – Raya – who had gone to sleep at 2 am the previous night (late night party) – showed up nevertheless and ran with us. You can see me and her in the picture going “toe-to-toe” so to speak 🙂 to symbolize that she was ready to match the adults at every step of stamina and strength.
Two high schoolers – Mishtu and Pooja as well as a middle schooler – Remi were there too. Pooja and I ran the “fast mile” together. We clocked at 7:15 min/mile. By the way, we need to find out why the young boys of our group are sleeping in when the girls are coming out to run.
It was good to see Sudipto, Nachiketa and the ever reliable Samaresh, Malobika and Ashok on the trail. It was even better to have the coffee together at Starbucks!!