Wrong week to pack in my minimalist shoes. The hotel is near the Milwaukee airport and the entire 5K run was on concrete sidewalk 🙂 The roads were too crowded to attempt a run on asphalt 🙁

Sunday morning Chalupa run. Within the first mile, ran into Lia and Samantha! Ran with them till the two mile marker and turned around. And then when I finished up my four miles, ran into another old friend – Sanjib and his dog Julie! The post run Starbucks was one of the funniest ones in a long time!! Samaresh and his “Shiboggyan” was the highlight!!!

Say what you may about Sheboygan. But its flat terrain by the lake is a runner’s morale booster. Aided by the flat ground and the fact I was trying to get the run over with since it was raining and I needed to find a way to pack wet clothes in my suitcase, posted a personal fastest mile.
I think I should start a running club here … call it Sheboygan club, of course. I might even invite all the three residents to it 🙂

5K run to the sleepy Sheboygan Harbor… I am sure you have guessed the rest…. This is on a river called Sheboygan in the town called Sheboygan in the county called Sheboygan et cetera et cetera et cetera 🙂

5K by the Lake Michigan in Sheboygan. As far as I can remember, this is my first run in the state of Wisconsin.

After a long time, put in a slow 10 mile (16K) run. The last mile was exhausting. Nearly 20,000 steps. I deserve two cocktails for that 🙂

The Chalupa group took a collective timeout this morning. All except three certifiably crazy members. It was raining incessantly and the temperatures had dropped to an unseasonal 50 degrees. The trail was wet, with a lot of water puddles and deceptively slippery.

Giving us company in the otherwise desolate trail were a couple walking their dog and a high school girl out running without her regular Sunday morning school team. Samaresh and I came prepared – at least I had full sleeves on while Samaresh had full rain gear. Manas, on the other hand, came in his patented Sunday morning light T shirt. When I asked him if he was worried, the every funny and self-deprecating Manas pointed to his prospering mid-portion and said “I am my own protection”!. It hurt my sides, I laughed so hard.

I wish I had carried my phone with me. There were some unbelievably beautiful sights of rain falling on the treetops, the small rivulets, the big creeks and all the leaves glistening in the overnight rain that I wished I had captured.

At the end of the run, as we synchronized our “Atchoos”, and collectively cleared our noses (I know. Gross. You see. “Thanda legey gechhey”), we wanted to give a full throated message to our fellow Chalupa- runners – “Alllll Eeeeeez Welllll” 🙂

Chalupa run had 16 members today. Nearly half of them were young kids! That is a very encouraging sign. We also roped in my father in law today. So, today’s Chalupa group’s age range was more than seven decades!!! That is quite a feat!
Missing from the pictures are Sudipto and myself.