Healing from the half marathon of yesterday, today was a rest day for me. I did join the Chalupa group though to give some moral support and see if I could catch the paparazzi that keeps taking my pictures during the runs 🙂

That, and the coffee-adda!! 🙂

The idea was to go ahead and put in a 10K run before lunch. Finished it at 9:30 pace. As I started stretching and relaxing, the rains came in. It was too tempting not to go back to the trail. Changed my shirt and finished up another 11K (much more slowly) in the slight drizzle to finish up a half marathon (21K) in 2 hours and 10 minutes.

Now I am really really hungry…

Put in a couple of miles by myself before Mr. Discipline Samaresh showed up at 8 sharp. And then Surajit joined. Put in another four miles – which felt like a lot more since Mr. Long Strides Surajit was pacing me at 8:30 min/mile. The trail was pretty desolate in the below freezing temperatures this morning.

The idea was to put in 8 miles. But the weather was great. Put in 2 more and then topped up with another 2. Took an hour and 55 minutes.
Somewhere around the tenth mile, ran into Arup and Bishan!

First time in my life.
The run in downtown Atlanta streets started rather innocuously with pouring rain. Then the strong winds kicked in. And the tall buildings on either side was creating a tunnel effect. So much so that I kept losing my running cap. The third time, it flew into the wet road and a car nearly ran over it. That is when I realized I needed a solution.

Found an underground parking lot nearby. Picked a desolate part of the lot – it was a quarter mile stretch and finished off the run in safer conditions. First time in my eleven year running career, I ran in an underground parking lot!!

Seemed like as good an excuse as any to go put in an 11 mile run. Today was a little faster. Took the same time as last week’s 10 mile run.

Perfect running weather in the hills. Took me about an hour and fifty minutes..