5K run on a cool Sunday morning with the Old Faithfuls and one Young Faithful 🙂 It never ceases to amaze me that given a choice to sleep in on a Sunday morning, Paroma always chooses to get up and run with the three of us. Each of whom is individually more than three times her age!!! Amitesh squeezed in the run after 3 hours of sleep and a run to Pep Boys. So, it was Starbucks time for Samaresh, Paroma and me!! 59 degrees temp. We enjoyed the sun as much as the run!!!

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! 🙂

The air was so thick that I had to do a couple of Michael Phelps moves to cut thru the humidity 🙂
A few hills. 9:30 pace.
Starbucks smoothie time 🙂

Testing the blog connection to Facebook!

4 mile Sunday morning run with Samaresh. Together we wore the colors of the soccer team – East Bengal – we hated most when we lived a stone’s throw away 30 years back :-)— with Samaresh Mukhopadhyay at Starbucks.

Lighter Side of Life: After my 5 mile run, I ordered a smoothie at Starbucks and stepped out to stretch. As I mightily struggled to get my fingers to touch my toes, from the corner of my eyes, I noticed this board next to me. Hilarious!! — at Starbucks.