Rise and Burn!

It has been a while since I've done anything I'd consider radical. When the idea came up a couple of days back, I have been silently waiting for this moment...

Today, I got up at 5 in the morning. I barely even sleep much last night, part of the reason being I was afraid I might have overslept. So it was a pretty much toss-and-turn sorta night for me. Not having to mention the nights have have been pretty warm since the past few days. And being me, I was still pretty much afraid to turn on the air condition too much. Having to avoid the ramblings of my landlord. But that is a different story entirely. Nevertheless, I got up at 5, took my shower...sync some songs to my phone and hurried myself out of the door. By 535am, I was already out in the dark, waiting for an early cabby. The cabby - an old chinese man...playing some chinese classic from the 60s or so, picked me up. 15mins later, the McD by the park loomed into view.

I saw another cab pulled in just right in front of me when i was paying my driver. When i saw the back of the passenger in the other cab, I quickly got down from mine and skipped into McD as fast as I could...hoping he didn't notice, so that I could pretend I was there much earlier than just seconds before him. And it worked as expected. And there goes...a head start right from the first thing in the morning. The pleasure is all for the winner.

After some lazy stretches and short warm up...we started trotting slowly towards the left side. The whole stretch was still pretty dark, only illuminated by some rather dim street lights. The campers were already up and chatting, some were still soundly asleep on the their thin sheet right there in the open. There were already some early folks, jogging and sweating away as if the day can no longer wait. It was still dark at 6am. I started slowly at first, picking up my pace as i went...I wasn't sure how long or how far I have covered but I don't think I've done as much as I wished I could have. I was panting pretty badly after about 30mins. So I stood by the pier, watching some fishers do their thing. The sky was already giving up some shades of pink and orange by that time...so i decided to wait for the sun to rise and called off the rest of the jog journey. And i'm still pretty glad i did.







After the sunrise, it was breakfast at the beans. Still, by the time we were done with breakfast...it was only 11am or so...and that's after an hour or so of chitty chats. I guess it wasn't just me who hadn't had enough. The sun was shining. The weather was perfect. I don't get out so often these days to such splendid weather. It was too hard to let go. So we rented bikes and make another round. Only this time, it's less tiring...and much more scenic.





...and they say, all's well...ends well. My trophy for the day.