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Sunday June 7. 6:59 AM. Central Park, Kharghar.

Hot. Humid. The kind of morning that gives you every reason to stay in bed.

And yet — there they were. The Kharghar Daud Adda squad, at the start line, thumbs up, ready to run.

This is what Edition 3 was about.

The Setup — A Sunday Shared With the Marathon

This Sunday was different. The Navi Mumbai Marathon was happening on the same day — pulling some of the running community’s regulars onto a different track, a different course, a different finish line.

The town was split. Some at the marathon. Some at Daud Adda. Two communities, same spirit.

But if you thought the marathon clash would shrink the Daud Adda energy — you underestimated this group.

The squad that showed up at the Central Park start line brought everything. The banner was up. The cones were out. The energy was, by all accounts, absolutely unmatched.

The Run — 2 km in Heat That Demanded Respect

A quick look at the Google Fit data tells the story of the morning honestly:

Date:     June 7, 2026
Time:     06:59 AM — 07:18 AM
Distance: 2.01 km
Duration: 18 minutes 50 seconds
Pace:     9:25 per km (average)
Calories: 160
Route:    Central Park Kharghar

The route looped through the Central Park area — past YVR Café, along Central Park Road, through the wide tree-lined streets that make Kharghar one of the best places to run in all of Navi Mumbai.

2 km. Not the longest run. Not the fastest pace.

But here is what the data does not show: the air temperature by 7 AM was already climbing. The humidity was the kind that wraps around you as soon as you step outside — heavy, thick, the pre-monsoon air that sits on the city like a warm blanket before the rains finally break it.

Running in this weather is not comfortable. It is not supposed to be. It is the kind of morning that tests whether you are a runner or someone who runs when the conditions are perfect.

The Daud Adda squad are runners.

The Warm Up — Done Right

Before a single step was run, the group went through the Daud Adda warmup — the structured preparation with cones marking the space, dynamic stretches, activation drills. The same discipline that marked Edition 1 and Edition 2 was here in Edition 3.

This is what separates a running community from a casual jog. The warm up is not skipped because it is hot. The form is not abandoned because fewer people showed up today. The standard is maintained regardless of the conditions.

The Momentum — Dedication That Cannot Be Faked

Some of the regulars were at the marathon today. The Edition 3 group was slightly smaller for it. But the word used from inside the community to describe the morning was the same word that keeps appearing every week: dedication.

When the conditions are bad — heat, humidity, competing events — the people who show up are the real ones. No performance for a crowd. No Instagram pressure. Just a Sunday morning, a running route and a community that chose to be there.

The momentum that some runners brought through the heat was, as one participant put it, smooth. Focused. The kind of running that comes from consistency — from showing up Edition after Edition until the body stops asking why and just runs.

The Surprise in the Vault

Edition 3 had a surprise planned. The kind of thing the organisers had clearly been building towards.

It stayed in the vault.

With the marathon pulling some of the squad away, the full group was not assembled. And the Daud Adda leadership made a decision that says something about what this community is built on: the surprise waits. Not until a convenient time. Until the entire squad is there to experience it together.

“We want the entire squad assembled when we drop this one. Consider it locked in the vault for a future chapter.”

Edition 4 just became the most anticipated one yet.

The Community Post — In Their Own Words

The official Daud Adda message after Edition 3 said it better than any outside observer could:

“No competition, no egos, just pure Daud Adda energy.”

That is the whole story. That one line. In a running culture that can sometimes become about times, rankings and performance metrics — Daud Adda has built something deliberately different. A space where the person running their first 2 km and the person who ran the marathon this morning are equally welcome. Equal members. Same community.

The instruction to the squad after the run: upload your stories, tag @kharghardaudadda flood the gram with today’s energy. Not for clout. For community. Because when the people who were not there see what they missed — they show up next Sunday.

Monsoon and Daud Adda — The Best Weeks Are Coming

Link: enjoy monsoon in Navi Mumbai

The Mumbai monsoon is officially arriving. Kerala received the first showers on June 4. Mumbai and Navi Mumbai are next — IMD forecasts the first rains by June 11.

Which means the next few editions of Kharghar Daud Adda are going to be something else entirely.

Running in light monsoon rain through the tree-lined roads of Central Park Kharghar — with the hills green and misty in the background and the temperature finally, mercifully dropping — is an experience that no dry-weather morning run can match.

The heat and humidity of Edition 3 was a test. The monsoon editions coming up are the reward.

Join Daud Adda — Every Sunday

EVENT: Kharghar Daud Adda
FREQUENCY: Every Sunday morning
LOCATION: Central Park, Kharghar
DISTANCES: 3 km and 6 km
            (all levels welcome)

INSTAGRAM: @kharghardaudadda

FREE to join.
All fitness levels welcome.
Bring water, good shoes
and your Sunday energy.

Edition 4 is coming. The surprise is in the vault. The squad is building.

See you Sunday. 🏃

From the Author

I covered 2.01 km this morning. The heat was real, the humidity was real and the 160 calories I burned felt earned in a way that air-conditioned gym workouts simply do not replicate.

What kept me going — what keeps everyone going — is the group around you. The person next to you who is also finding it hard but is not stopping. The thumbs up at the finish. The collective decision, made by everyone present, that this Sunday morning was worth showing up for.

That is Daud Adda. Edition after Edition, it is exactly that.

— NaviMumbai Hubb

Published: June 7, 2026 Covering every Kharghar Daud Adda edition. Follow @NaviMumbaiHubb for updates.

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