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As we inch towards working on premises, I’m super excited about the travel, move up north and the perceived freedom it brings along. The mountains are truly calling!

Hopped in a cab at 04:30 am and head to Animeshs’ to catch-up over a shortish bike ride. Some great off-road mountain biking through the Mrigavani WIldlife Park led us to a lesser known beautiful spot overlooking the Osman Sagar lake. Been a while that I’ve done some good mountain biking and looks like I badly needed this get-away! 2021-10-10 06:20:03 - Hyderabad Cycling 🚴 Biked 16.25 miles in 02:58:15 Pace : 10.97 min/mile. Elevation Gain : 627 ft. Elevation Loss : 611 ft. Calories : 1721 Location : Hyderabad 💓 : 163 ...

Hopped into an auto-rikshaw and bypassed the crowded section of the road from Injambakam to Thiruvanmayur. And looks like I did hit the 4hr mark :) 2021-08-28 08:02:59 - ECR closeout 🤸 Other 3.58 miles in 01:00:06 Pace : 16.79 min/mile. Elevation Gain : 147 ft. Elevation Loss : 139 ft. Calories : 405 Location : Chennai 💓 : 143

Great weather! Plan was to head towards Kovalam, spend about 4 hours outdoors and see what my endurance baseline was. Turned around at Sholinganallur since I had to use the restroom. This is something I need to plan for while in India. The lack of good public restrooms / porta porties is a huge detriment. So glad I decided to head via OMR. The wider road along with the service road definitely made it feel safer. ...

The Bluetooth on my NUC stopped working after an apt upgrade last evening. A good chunk of troubleshooting did no help. My initial hunch was that this was caused by the kernel upgrade. Reverting didn’t help though. I finally caved in and ordered a USB<>Audio adapter. This morning, It struck me that this could be due to the BIOS which I haven’t updated in a while. And I was spot on! Now I have a pretty functional Bluetooth system, an up-to-date machine and yet another adapter which goes into my mystery black-box. ...

Marina was closed! Possibly to reduce footfall during the local holiday? Wrapped this up with breakfast at Murugan Idli. 2021-08-21 05:54:04 - No 4 🤸 Other 3.37 miles in 00:52:26 Pace : 15.56 min/mile. Elevation Gain : 150 ft. Elevation Loss : 132 ft. Calories : 549 Location : Chennai 💓 : 160

Did want to head till N4 beach. Decided to turn around a bit earlier and grab a cup of tea at Santhome Sangeetha instead. Need to head out much earlier to beat the traffic and the smoke! 2021-08-15 06:05:17 - Independence N4 🤸 Other 5.86 miles in 01:28:47 Pace : 15.15 min/mile. Elevation Gain : 299 ft. Elevation Loss : 275 ft. Calories : 1027 Location : Chennai 💓 : 171 ...

2021-08-08 16:21:17 - Adyar River Trail - Thiru Vi Ka Bridge 🤸 Other 5.57 miles in 01:28:04 Pace : 15.81 min/mile. Elevation Gain : 328 ft. Elevation Loss : 318 ft. Calories : 886 Location : Chennai 💓 : 165

A really inquisitive young monkey made its way to the pool area this evening. It had its fair share of fun skirting along the pool circumference and jumping in on the shallow end to ‘play’ with the water toys and held us ‘hostage’ for a good 20 minutes. On our way out, Shasta had a close encounter with him/her and she was supremely amazed by his eye color! One terrific evening. ...

Not sure how I came across this, but I’m so glad I did bookmark it to watch-later. A beautiful film with terrific snow mountain videography and kids! Having Shasta probably makes me appreciate this a lot more. Meena and I started taking Shasta out on hikes since she was about 3 weeks old. We expose her to sharp tools and fire under close supervision. I still think there’s so much more we could do with her once we overcome our fear of exposing her to the elements. And this video was a much needed terrific reminder of how short we were falling on that metric! ...