Running

Running this season has been terrible. I run 60 times each summer (starting 2003!), 5.3 miles (8.5 km) at a time. Last year by this time I was taking 43 minutes a run. This year it's 47 minutes. That's 10 percent, it's terrible. Partly it's because there was a five week India trip when I was getting married, partly it's because I'm a kilo heavier than I was last year thanks to the India trip (it was 3 kilos when I began so there's some cause for celebration), partly it's the abnormally hot summer here this year, and partly it's just my defeatist attitude (why run harder and why warm up well, it's so hot and I'm so out of shape it's gonna take me 47 minutes anyway, plus I'm married now so who am I trying to impress... just kidding Nandini!). Perhaps I'm just getting old. Damn it, that must be it. If only I was a year younger...