Out of 16 runners that showed up this morning, we, the men, got thoroughly outnumbered 5-11 🙁 At this rate, I move that we rename the group “Chalupi” 🙂

8 miles in 1 hour 6 minutes.

3 mile in 26 minutes by myself next to the river. Then joined Arup, Samaresh and Subho for 4 miles. For the last mile, peeled off from the group and gave my heart out. 7min 22sec for the mile. Now sweating profusely to match the river flow 🙂

10 miles (16 km) at a 8:45 min/mile pace.

… and you finding some gin and tonic to go with it.

Let’s just say I am not the biggest fan of people who cancel meetings, are late to arrive and late to leave. Both in office meetings and personal life parties. Certainly I am, at times, guilty of the same. But heaven knows how much I try to not do so. Which might explain why I come to parties alone on time and the family comes later.

Anyways, I had a canceled meeting in St. Louis today. I was not amused. Time is truly the only constrained resource I have.

I had to adapt to deal with my blood pressure and recognizing that maybe it was not a canceled meeting – it was an extra hour I was gifted …

I can deal with a gift – went for a quick 5K of run in a nearby trail by the lake and a quick shower in that hour…

… and that would have been a 10 mile swim instead of a 10 mile run. And I wisely chose to leave both my running hats on the kitchen counter top 🙁

This morning, my long term running partner Samaresh and I showed up almost in identical looks 🙂
Good turnout at Chalupa run this morning (Sharmila, Malobika, Puja, Gita, Sreerupa, Indrani, Seemitadi, Mrinalda, Samaresh and Ayan). The women completely outnumbered us though. (As you can imagine, at the Starbucks table, our side of the table was unusually quiet 🙂 )