Last evening, Karthik and I went running and of course the only way we can do this is when we take Adhrit along in the jogger. The jogger we have is pretty good, in the sense, unless you want to run intervals it does not get in your way. Well, yesterday Karthik's running plan included intervals! We warmed up and I pushed Adhrit along until Karthik took over for a little bit, and I did the first interval (5 mins at pretty good speed) with Adhrit - pushing him through the trail. I think it was a pretty tough effort, but much easier than what was in store.
The 2nd interval, Karthik had him and I realized how fast you can actually run when you are not pushing a jogger. I felt good, and could feel my stride. The 3rd one (last one) was interesting, around 2 mins, Adhrit started crying.. it was more of a "I am scared cry" than "I am hungry" cry. When we go out together, I want all of us to have a good time - Adhrit loves watching cars, different things from the jogger and I think it is time he is experiencing a whole new world. When he was crying, I decided it did not make sense to continue with my interval workout, and turn back and get him comfortable.
During my normal runs, I normally talk to Adhrit - well I talk and he says "ba", "ba ba" back to me. Yesterday, it was tough to talk since we were doing intervals.
But since he was crying, I decided that it would be just a good if not harder exercise for my lungs if I sang and ran at a decent pace. Normally couple of his favorite songs calms him down. If that does not work, narrating him his favorite book "Pepper goes to school" definitely works. So, as per plan, we did the "Hokey Pokey", "Wheels on the bus" - yes we did all the things we do in the "wheels on the bus", and that was sufficient. Every time I stopped to catch my breath and had to stop "singing" he would be "ummmm" - almost saying - how can you stop talking to me???
I think the run back was harder than the 2 intervals that we did at least for me, and he enjoyed the ride in the jogger as much as I had a workout. Around 5 mins from home, I noticed that when I had stopped for a breath, there was no response "ummm" - the li'l guy was fast asleep!
It has been such a pleasure for me to share one of my passion with my son who is my greatest passion! We have had many outings together and I suspect we will have plenty more together... but this one was interesting run we had together.
