A beautiful morning in north Atlanta. Cool and cloudy. Perfect day for a run. The usual suspects – Samaresh, Arup, Manas and myself were there. Rupak, in spite of threatening to, did not show up 🙂 We missed Speedy Gonzalez Amitesh for the run (partying too late) – but he sprang a surprise by showing up for post-run coffee. And he bought us coffee for missing the run 🙂

Early morning run by Boston waterfront! Very foggy day. It was difficult not to remember this year’s Boston Marathon.

Taking advantage of the cool morning, tried putting in negative splits. First mile at 9:08, second one at 8:48 and then gave everything for the third mile at 7:10. And soon I realized that it might be cool in Milton at 5:30 in the morning, but it is humid as heck. Was sweating bullets for 15 minutes before I even dared to go inside the Starbucks to order a coffee….

After a long time ran 5 miles in the Georgia Tech area. The campus looks beautiful in the early hours of the morning. I had my red shirt and red shoes on. If you think that is weird, listen to this. As I came up the hill on State Rd and pulled up at the intersection of 14th street, I ran into another runner coming up on my left with a red shirt and red shoes on!! And she had red earbuds for her iPod to match. As we waited for cross traffic to die down, to make polite chat, we almost simultaneously, landed up saying “Nice shoes” to each other!! Awkwardness soon gave way to levity and coincidence of the moment : we laughed out loud and continued running our own way… Funny start to a day…