Discovering SL, one climb at a time! Part 3

After the initial enthusiasm of discovering Hatton died out a little, trying to ride it on a weekday and get back home to pick my son from school in time started to take a toll. It became extremely tiring to squeeze it in a day. As long as it was working out, I was managing to get there atleast once a week. Meanwhile I started to ride on the Galle sea face road very much like the Marine drive in Bombay. The road is however shorter just a km long with no traffic at all. It is a perfect set up for short high intensity intervals. The Galle face road was closed to public till recently due to threats from the sea from the Tamil tigers. Since the end of the war the roads have been made open to public but still there is a huge military presence as the army headquarters is pretty close by. The adjoining ground that lies sandwiched between the road and the beach is very popular with the locals in the evening. You see thousands of families enjoying the surroundings and over all the spectacular sunsets over the Indian ocean. This time of the year it is very popular with kite fliers.

The ground also has a massive flat post that carries the national flag. Every morning and evening it is hosted and taken off with precise ceremonies by the army. In the morning the army uses the ground for their regular exercises. Anyways I have been riding this on Sundays providing a spectacle to the army security and the morning joggers. I ride this in the company of my motorbike and we reach 60km/hr at the end of the km. The return is recovery. As I pass the army folks drenched in sweat and my head hanging off my shoulders in despair I hear them silently murmuring "come on" "come on"!! I turn back at the other end and I am ready for the next effort.