Ladakh Marathon Trip Day 6

• Padma was planning to get the recording of yoga postures which would help runners, but unfortunately her battery was down, nor did I get up in time.
• Shiv, Gupta, Balaji and myself were set out to climb a small cliff that nearby, on our way we met Dr.Mala who was sharing her running experience and her husband's attempt at Comrades.

 

• We walked towards the small cliff, were gupta wanted his cover page picture to be clicked, was a nice view, post few clicks we start to climb that small cliff, reaching the top was already setting our heart rate up.
• What a nice view it was, indeed a nice one to cherish upon, as gupta was enjoying his lonely view at the lake, we found couple of Yak horns, with which we were snapping snaps.
• As I was trying to breath in and out, did I speak about brahmari and nadeeshwara pranayama, soon did shiv and kiran set out on their seats and were attempting brahmari. Nice relief post that.

 

• We were to pack our lunch and leave at 8:30 AM, so we started ascending down, while we met brunda and gang, couple of us set down to the lake, trying out some yoga poses, while gupta, uday and ashish did walk a bit towards the  3 idiots shooting location and back
• We finish our breakfast soon and set on to our respective cars, with lunch being packed and loaded, we were so particular, that we will not have long stops and set out our travel for the day at around 8:30 AM
• Within few kms, we stopped at the 3 idots spot, we removed our shoes and start to jog towards the small stretch of sand where it was potentially shot, nice view from there, with clear waters, I tried to step in only to realize that it was soon getting so deep and the sand was giving away, was quickly helped by shiv to pull me out.

 

• We had all funky snaps taken there, jumping, running pose, train pose and some solos, and soon did we jog back to our cars and soon we set on to the trip.
• We saw a lot of bikers on Bullet bikes, who were showing all their stunts to negotiate all the bad bumps and bad roads, yielding to all the bikers we were cruising at nice speed.
• We did stop briefly at our previous day's lunch spot to have a quick tea and some parle G biscuits, we were planning to have some maggi along the way, so we parted our lunch box with our driver, holding on to just one

 

• We were expecting to reach leh at around 4 or so, but we were doing really good to not spend lot of time at breaks and soon we reached a shop where we had a spicy maggi, was a nice treat to taste buds, in that cold climate, again we set out on our drive and started cruising.
• We took a short route on the way down, which potentially cut short a 10 km ride, while we were sneaking through a small village, where we saw all the cars in a queue, soon did we realize that the villagers were forcefully stopping the vehicles stopping with a tree's trunk :) and forcefully selling Tea, that was amusing
• Our driver just paid for a tea without having it and soon started driving along, in few hours we were on the manali highway, which we thought would be the potential race route. We were strategizing about how we approach each section and we saw the start point, which is the Druk's school, which again is where one of the scenes of 3 idiots shot.
• We were to collect our BIB numbers at around 5 PM, headed to the adjacent and collected our bibs and t-shirt, quickly got introduced to the other runners outside of hyderabad runners group.
• Since we had some time , we started walking towards the local market, we hit a so called German Bakery which was selling everything from Dosa to muffins :)
• We stopped at a tibetian market, where we found quite a few antique collectibles, and many small stone studded necklace and anklets, many of which were huge enough to be only used on an elephant :)

 

• Shiv sneaked into a leather shop were we found intersting stuffs, important one was the potentially fuel belt , that was amusing moment to see something like that.
• We got some medicines, got some raisins, while gupta had ordered some mammos and had some wait time, while did we window shop Adidax shoes and BMW shoes, funny to see such brand names and were making fun around it.
• Once gupta collected his mammos, we starting walking fast towards the hotel since the dinner was available only for an hour's time.

 

• We had our dinner and set out to our rooms to have a nice rest.