I’m fortunate enough to be behind the scenes of one of the runners. You get to see more than what they eat or what they wear.
With a 6:00am start each morning, I suppose at some point, it’s gonna be hard to get up at 5:00am to get ready. In our house we have two separate alarms to “guarantee†a definite wake up. I am in charge of one, and Dharbhasana, the other. For some strange reason, this morning, we BOTH slept through our alarms, or turned them off in our sleep or just forgot to set them. I’m not really sure what happened there, but we were both in another world when 5:00am rolled around.
I was happily snoring away when suddenly a screaming Dharbhasana, yanked me out of my deep sleep.”NANDANA! IT’S 6:13!!!â€Â Whoa, I shot straight up, bumped my head, totally confused, had no idea what the heck just happened or where I was for that matter and trying to figure out what I was supposed to be doing. Then I see Dharbhasana limping and unbalanced trying to get to the shower as fast as he could. What a sight!
I then realized I was supposed to be making his smoothies, so I climbed down from my bunk and got to the kitchen with one eye open trying to figure out what goes in the blender. I didn’t have enough time to do anything though as Dharbhasana was out of that shower before I could even say green smoothie. I had to help him get dressed and then he was out the door. Took him 7 minutes from eye opening to bike riding his way to the race.
The funny part of it all is when Dharbhasana parked his bike upon his arrival; he just nonchalantly put his bike in place, his bag down on his chair and started shuffling into his first lap like there was nothing out of sorts. Ananda-Lahari said Dharbhasana was now part of the club.