Monsoon Run

“Wear your own socks” said my sister.
I was getting ready for my run ,   outside rain was falling heavy .
I love that sound , the tapping of rain drops on the window panes .
I wore them anyway . Bunch of girl were standing on the balcony outside .
I did my hand-through-the-hair  routine and started walking   with plugs in my ears
By the time i got to MCM. I was drenched in rain , from head to toe.
I closed my eyes and looked at the sky, the rain drops falling  were on my face, running down the cheeks to my lips .
And all of sudden it hit me “Let’s run to Sukhna?”
Short Change Hero- The Heavy sound track  starts with  a sound of thunder .
water sipping through my t-shirt to waist, music in my ears. “It’s perfect”
with every step I got more excited with the  new plan. After running for half a km ,  i-pod stopped working . “Shit !!
(I never run without music . it just seems silly to me) . I should  go back “
But as I took off the plugs .  I could hear the sound of rain falling down heavy wind passing through the trees  and a long road ahead of me .
So I decided to keep running , crossing the roads , switching to the footpaths then again to the road, splashing the water on side . I crossed the people sitting in stopped cars on the side of road. I could feel the gaze of those dry people hiding under the shelters of bus stops. I crossed roundabouts.
I don’t why I kept running . May be it was the whole running in the rain or may be so I can tell you about it. Rain started slowing down as I entered sector-10. I had a stupid smile on my face. Every car or person I crossed, they just saw a boy running but they didn’t know how long I had been running or how long I would run for. I only stopped after entering into Sukhna .
I went down the stairs and sat there
Now question was “whether to run back to MCM again?”.
I knew I can easily run to Shukna challenge was to to run back .I couldn’t sit for long . “if I had to run back I have to start before fatigue settles in every muscle.  “
So I started my run back . it had almost stopped raining . My clothes were soaked getting heavy . City started coming back to to  life . There was so much traffic on red lights and roundabouts  but that didn’t stop me . I went around the cars , running between them to cross the roads then took the side roads  I was almost hit by a bicycle  (just a centimeter of gap )and before I know it .I took the left turn  for the fragrance  garden and then MCM. My first 18 km run :)