After a two month gap, ran with the Chalupa group. Put in a 3 mile warmup run by myself first to get ready to keep up with speedster Puja. Inspite of that, I could barely keep up with her on the first mile – 7:53 min. She slowed down a little after that for me. We finished 4 miles at 8:19 min/mile pace.

It was great to see Mrinalda, Seemitadi, Sreerupa, Indrani, Gita, Baisakhi, Sharmila, Malobika, Samaresh, Ashok and Sudipta (and of course Puja) in good old Fowler park.

7 miles for seven “pherey-s” – which is actually a custom for Bengali traditional weddings. That is not what Sharmila and I went thru (ours was a court marriage – there is a hilarious story of how the judge divided some cattle among two feuding brothers before taking up the case to get us married).

Instead, it was 7 miles today because the trail ended after 3.5 miles and I had no option but to turn back…

Ran into good old Sridhar on the trail. He has just started running and is gearing to run his first 5K race in May. If I can open up the morning on that day, I might go and run with him just to support him on his maiden race!!

I like to think that they are “appropriately” late. For example, I think their flight to Atlanta being 15 minutes late makes total sense to me. Otherwise, I had no chance at all to make it to the flight 🙂 When I ran into the plane, I had already violated the 10 minute rule. Fortunately, I had called in Delta from the rental car center and requested them not to give the seat away.

Everything had gone swimmingly well per the plan after I pulled over from the highway. It was a great park and the Delaware River views were beautiful. Managed to even run into some interesting fellow runners – okay, maybe they were just strolling around.

Finding the LA Fitness near the airport though took quite some time (it was on the second floor). And my plans hit a big hitch when I realized that I was about one towel short!! Had to make do with yesterday’s shirt!!

But I am in the plane now and the views and the run was totally worth it!! Maybe I should have put in a couple of miles more… The way the thunderstorms are rolling in, I don’t think we are getting out in a hurry…

After a month of hill runs went to a flat trail. Picked up speed considerably as a result. Plus it was a great spring day. First run of the year in shorts…

Roger did not join. Forgot  his carry on suitcase at home – or some excuse like that! Oh! The extent to which he will go not to get beat by me in a run 🙂 🙂

4 mile dirt road in cool and cloudy Milton morning…

Went for a five mile run to take the mind off doing all the taxes this afternoon. Not totally successful… so, I will try a cocktail next 🙂

6.2 miles (10km) in 58 min 17 sec at 9:25 min/ mile. Total climb – 71 floors. The cool breezy weather was a big help.

One big advantage of an evening run is that I do not have to wait for twelve hours for my hard earned glass of wine 🙂