Saturday morning 7 mile run in the hills of Milton. So, there I was, running up the hills by myself, minding my own business, bothering nobody, listening to “Says You” where Richard was teaching a new word – Ophidiophobia (which I understand, means, fear of snakes – who knew?) when I look up and sure enough, there was a three feet snake on the road!! Freshly steeped in the knowledge of “Ophidiophobia”, I exhibited no fear whatsoever. But then again, the fact that the poor snake was pulverized head to toe by many cars might have something to do with it too 🙂

We have all seen the 26.2 and 13.1 stickers on marathoners’ and half-marathoners’ cars. In some extreme cases, we have seen 50.0 and 100.0 too!! But this guys has made his attitude towards running very very clear 🙂 Hilarious 🙂

After getting hopelessly lost in the Georgia Tech campus, today I was careful to study all the landmarks as I ran. Cost of that studious behavior was my running speed was 10:30 min/mile rather than 9:00 🙁 On the other hand, I learnt something. Sumit Rao, yesterday had enquired in my blog if the buses in his alma mater were still called Stinger. Today, I actually looked for them – and indeed they are called Stingers. I guess it is a reference to the Georgia Tech “Yellow Jackets”. Anyways, it was an enjoyable 5 miles. But I might need to take a rest day tomorrow. 67 miles of barefoot running in 18 days – this is the most I have put after the transition to barefoot running. The shins are sore.

5 mile run this morning in midtown Atlanta. Was enjoying some of the gentle hill runs when I realized that I was going around in circles in the maze of Georgia Tech 🙂 Finally followed a GT shuttle route back to LA Fitness. Much slower run (10:15 min/mile). But the smoothie was thoroughly enjoyed! 🙂