The 44 degree temperature I could deal with. The strong winds early in the morning was a different matter altogether. On the plus side, the legs have recovered from the half marathon..

This morning I could not run due to the half marathon yesterday. Plus I had to pick up Tasha from a sleepover. However, we did join the running group later – not to run but to take pictures. Unbeknownst to me Arup took a picture of us as I was taking the group picture…

It was cold. And breezy. That did not faze the women and kids of the Bengali running group. The men, though, did not show up with their usual strength in numbers.

In a duel of lack of strength and sheer determination, lack of strength prevailed today. Got this crazy idea this morning to run a half marathon – after two years.
First ten miles (16K) were tolerable at 9:55 pace. Then I hit a wall. Just could not keep up. Walked and ran the last three miles (5K).
Gotta get back in shape again….
For the time being, hot tub and a couple of Advils, here I come…

The temperatures keep falling but the Bengali herd shows no signing of thinning out. Fourteen runners showed up in chilly conditions to run the Sunday morning run!
Special shout out to Raya – barely 10 years (rightmost in the photo) – who dragged herself out of bed, slept in the car as we waited for everybody to show up and then when we were ready to run, she kicked her blanket and started with us. That is something I have to remember those days when I feel too sleepy to get up and run!

Very very foggy morning. 41 degrees cold (5 degrees Centigrade). 8 in the morning on a Sunday. After the Saturday night Lakshmi Puja activities. Most Bengali can be located only under “lep”s (blankets) under such circumstances.
Except the Chalu-pas. 10 of them – including 2 junior runners – showed up with winter running gear sans any “monkey cap” 🙂 Not counting Ashok-“warm-clothes-are-way-overrated”-Deb 🙂

16 runners and a traffic cone showed up for our Bengali Group run today 🙂 Note out new tradition of shoe-huddling 🙂

10K run in the sun – sweated out all the salt from my early morning coffee 🙂 Now sipping strawberry smoothie at a Starbucks and soaking in some more Vitamin D from the sun….

Sunday morning run. We has two more first timers – Jasmine and Ronit today. It was a little chilly. Later, on our way to Starbucks ran into this huge hot air balloon taking off…