Harrington/Kilpauk Run on 1st July

We will do an easy run tomorrow

Start Time: 0530 Hrs.

Start From: MCC School on Harrington Road

Route: MCC School to Nowroji Road area. Will do couple of loops in Nowroji Road and then head back.

Nature of Run: Easy 10-11 mins per mile. Suitable for beginners. Anyone needs wake up call please let me know.

Runners Guide to Central Park

Not sure whether it is relevant for Chennai Runners, but it could be useful to anyone visiting NY. Please see this link. nyt

Sunday, June 29th Classic Run

Hi Chennairunners,

Please see below Classic Run schedule for Sunday, june 29th.

Date: Sunday, June 29th
Assemble at: 5.00 a.m
Start by: 5.15 a.m
Start point: Dimensions gym, CP Ramaswamy Road, Alwarpet, ( near coffee world / Pizza corner)

Route: Classic - Dimensions, Greenways road, Malar hospital, besant nagar, Velankanni Church, Tidel park, Madhya Kailash, Kotturpuram, boat club and back to Dimesnions

Distance: Around 16 kms. You can do a loop inside Anna univ / Boat club to add up to a half marathon.

Please confirm your particpation.

Happy Running!!
Hari

Run tomorrow - Saturday, 28th June 2008

Team

We will do an easy run tomorrow.

Assemble, warm up & stretch: 5:00 AM
Assembly point: Dimensions Gym, CP Ramaswamy Road, Alwarpet
Start time: 5:15 AM
Route: Boat Cub Road circuit / To Malar Hospital & back
Distance: Approx 5 kms

Please confirm your participation!

Ramesh

Harrington/Kilpauk Run on 26th June

We will do an additional run this week on Thursday 26th June.

Start Time: 0530 Hrs.

Start From: MCC School on Harrington Road

Route: MCC School to Nowroji Road area. Will do couple of loops in Nowroji Road and then head back.

Nature of Run: Easy 10-11 mins per mile. Suitable for beginners. Anyone needs wake up call please let me know.

ECR Run No. 7 - Update 2

Team

How are you preparations for the ECR Run No. 7?? Here are more details on the run.

Date: Sunday, 20th July 2008
Assembly Point: Green Coconut Resort, Muttukadu, ECR Road
Assembly Time: Between 4:30 and 4:45 AM
Run Start Time: 5:00 AM
Distance: Flexible - 5, 10, 20 or 30 kms with turn around points @ 2.5, 5, 10, 15 kms respectively.
Finish Line: Green Coconut Resort (Starting point)

Our aim is to arrive at the resort between 4:30 to 4:45 AM, park our vehicles at the resort, warm up, stretch and be ready to start the run by 5:00 AM.

Entry Fee: Rs. 250. This is to defray the cost of organising the run such breakfast, first aid, fruits, water, sports drink, fuel cost etc.

There is a 2500 sq ft fresh water swimming pool which may tempt you after the run, this facility is available as an option to you at an extra cost of Rs. 75 per person.

Volunteers: We need volunteers to man drink / aid stations enroute and help with water, sports drink and generally provide first aid cover. I request some of our members who are NOT running to pitch in and help the runners. Join us as a volunteer and feel the thrill.... Please let me know if you are interested / know anyone who would be interested in helping us out.

Registration: Please register for the run on line at our website, www.chennairunners.com even if you have expressed your interest to participate in response to my earlier message – the registration process will ensure that we obtain some of your key details such as emergency contacts.

Participant List : We have 22 people now... in just the couple of days of the first announcement. We we should get at least 50 participants chasing their own dreams and making them a reality this time! Please spread the word, bring your friends .. family .. stranger .. just about anyone for the run.. Introduce them to running and help them experience the runners high!! The fist list of participants based on expression of interest is as follows:
1. Ram – 30k
2. Vignesh Raja
3. KK – 30k
4. Rajasekar Kuppa – 10k
5. Ramani – 30k
6. Karthik – 30k
7. Shahid
8. Shumit – 21k
9. Meera Sundar – 10k
10. Anupama – 10k+
11. K. Shyam – 30k
12. Ramesh Seshadri – 30k
13. Sandy – 20k
14. Mohan – 30k
15. Vijay – 20k
16. Saravananan Sadacharam – 30 k
17. Arun Krishnan – 20k
18. Hari
19. Vidyuth
20. Balaji
21. Narayanan – 30k
22. Ramesh Ponnuswami

Pick up point - Dimensions
We are looking to car pool from Dimensions on CP Ramaswamy Road, Alwarpet to reach the start point. Alternatively, runners can reach the start point directly to be in time for warm up session / start. Other pick up points may be available, depending on your location and other runners driving/riding from your area.

Stay tuned for more announcements and feel free to raise any queries / comments to me.

Cheers and keep running!

Ramesh

Harrington/Kilpauk Run on 24th June

We will have an easy Run tomorrow.

Start Time: 0530 Hrs.

Start From: MCC School on Harrington Road

Route: MCC School to Nowroji Road area. Will do couple of loops in Nowroji Road and then head back.

Nature of Run: Easy 10-11 mins per mile. Suitable for beginners.

Run Tomorrow - Sunday, June 22, 2008

Chennai Runners..

Date: Sunday, June 22, 2008
Assemble by : 5.00 a.m
Start Time: 5.15 a.m (sharp)
Starting Location: Dimensions Gym / Sony World , CP Ramaswamy Road, Abhiramapuram
Route: Classic or Classic Plus
Distance - The total distance is about 15 kms.. but you do what you are able to.. and you can always Do More..


Happy Running!!!

Please confirm your participation...

Run tomorrow - Friday, 20th June 2008

Team

We will do an easy run tomorrow.
Assemble, warm up & stretch: 5:00 a.m.
Assemble at: Dimensions Gym, CP Ramaswamy Road, Alwarpet
Start: 5:15 p.m.
Route: Boat Club Road circuit
Distance: Flexible - 3 to 5 km

Please confirm your participation! Looking forward to seeing you in the morning.
Happy to give a wake up call to anyone who needs it (for the run!!).

Cheers
Ramesh

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Run Tomorrow - Sunday, June 15, 2008

Chennai Runners..

We will do half marathon tomorrow... but this route has many options of to do less as well... so, please don't be intimidated by the 'half marathon' tag. Please join and do what your are able to.

Date: Sunday, Jun 15, 2008
Assemble by : 5.00 a.m
Start Time: 5.15 a.m (sharp)
Starting Location: Dimensions Gym / Sony World , CP Ramaswamy Road, Abhiramapuram
Route: Marina Half Marathon
Distance - About 21.2 kms (Pl. get get to know the route... slightly altered route but will take us to the half marathon mark.. )

Happy Running!!!

Please confirm your participation...

Registration Open for Hyderabad Hi-Tech Trail Marathon

Hyderabad Runners are organizing the Hyderabad Hi-Tech Trial Marathon (H2T2M) along with the Hyderabad 10 K Foundation on August 16^th 2008.

The running categories are:

• Half Marathon 21km
• Full Marathon 42km
• Intermediate Marathon 30km

The start time for all categories is 5:30 AM.

The route is part road and part trail. The route will take you through Cyberabad , the new IT district of Hyderabad and also through some nice campuses in the corporate and the education sector. Though there may not be complete traffic stoppage, the police have agreed to regulate traffic all through the route.

Since it is a long weekend, we expect the traffic to be less and 75% of the route is through low traffic areas..

The registration fee for all categories is 400/- per person. The fee includes:

• The run and support during the run
• Dormitory accomodation from August 15^th evening to August 16^th afternoon (separate dorms for women)
• Pre race get together and dinner
• Lunch after the run

The finishers will get medals and certificates.

All runners interested have to reach the venue by August 15^th evening. If runners come in a group of a minimum of 5 people, commute from stations/airports will be arranged.

The maximum number of entries for the run is 300 and it is on a first come first serve basis. Out of these 50 entries are being kept aside for Chennai runners and their friends.

This is a runner friendly run organized by runners and will be a good event to kick-off the marathon season.

Please register for the marathon here

Chetpet/Kilpauk Easy run tomorrow (for folks in this neighborhood)

Here’s an alternate run for Wednesday 11th July
Start Time: 0530 Hrs.
Start From: MCC School on Harrington Road
Route: MCC School to University Union Ground and back x 2 (two loops)

Nature of Run: Easy 10-11 mins per mile

Optional: Continue from University union and go through Egmore underpass to SDAT stadium to complete a few loops inside SDAT.

Regards,
Shahid

Interesting article from International Herald Tribune

This article was posted by Dinesh Kumar in RFL googlegroups.


The burden of being a champ


By Shari Leslie Segall
Published: March 26, 2008





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PARIS: Spring marathon season is nigh upon us. In about a month, the streets of Paris, London and Boston will belong to tens of thousands of runners.
Courageous individuals all - from the super-elite Kenyans doing the 26.2 miles in record-breaking time, to the lumbering old ladies crossing the finish line in a half-walk, half-jog howl of relieved victory. These are folks from every continent who for the past half year have been going to sleep right after dinner, rising at dawn, pounding the pavement in the kind of freezing rain or withering heat that would keep most people from leaving the house.
Eating well. Shunning parties. Living like monks. Training like brutes. Tens of thousands of determined, disciplined, dedicated, die-hard examples of guts and grit, running from one end of the city to the other: Through the streets, across the woods, over the riverbanks, down the underpasses, into the tunnels, up the hills, below the bridges, beyond the monuments, around the lakes. Past the crowds.
The 30 days leading up to a marathon are like no other in the calendar: a pre-race purgatory where if you run too much you show up at the starting line tired, and if you run too little you show up at the starting line weak. Don't concentrate on the race and you lose your focus. Concentrate too long and you lose your nerve.
In this state of limbo, the only thing for us back-of-the-packers to do is count our blessings that we're not going to win this thing. Think of it. What burdens those champions must bear. When you run at one-third their speed, look what you don't have to put up with:


New cars. In some marathons, winners are awarded big pots of cash and a car. Talk about waste. I thought these guys were runners - what do they need wheels for? The rubber that meets our road is on air-soles not tire rims.
Personalized refreshments. The elite runners up front whiz past each regularly spaced water stations to grab their ultra-custom-made sports drinks from the outstretched hands of their world-famous, exclusive nutritionists. I hate to tell you, folks, but they're missing the whole point. The real business of marathoning takes place at the refreshment tables, where 30,000 hands fumbling for the same orange wedge means a traffic jam so massive you have a built-in excuse to stop and catch your breath.
TV stardom. The pressure on the champs must be colossal. While the television cameras follow their 13-mile-per-hour cruise toward glory, they have to look pretty. As opposed to us plodders behind them, they have no freedom whatsoever to sweat, wince, frown, groan, curse, spit, scratch or - on occasion - leave their breakfast splattered on the sidewalk.
Awards ceremony. When you've just finished running 26.2 miles the only thing you want to do is limp to the nearest bus stop and hobble home. Having to climb onto the winner's podium and tolerate mega-bouquets presented by worshipful youths, waves of adoring applause, fireworks of flashbulbs, fawning city officials and the soft purr of a limousine waiting to whisk you to your press conference in the ballroom of a luxury hotel has to be one of life's greater inconveniences.
Stellar reputation. Once these luminaries win a marathon, all eyes are on them for the next one. From here on out, every second they don't shave off their finishing times means less money for their sponsors, fewer eyes for the sports channel, decreased bragging rights for their families. Those of us who cross the line three hours after them have the luxury of reasoning just the opposite way. With only ourselves to please, our future expectations stand in inverse proportion to our current performance. "Now that I've proved I can do it, I never have to prove it again. At next year's race I can take my time!"
Intelligent questions. A marathon is 26.2 miles. Or, if you will, 42.195 kilometers. That's what a marathon is. Always. Every time. In every city. Everywhere. It is not an arbitrary length of road from approximately here or so to somewhere about there. Top runners' friends and families know this, which must make life pretty boring. Imagine going to a party and never once hearing, "Oh, you ran a marathon last Sunday? How many miles was this one?" My comment - considering everyone who runs 5 km in Mumbai says he/she ran the marathon, this question is really relevant here!!!!!!
So eat your hearts out, superstars, and have a great race. And if you want an orange wedge, I'll pick up some extras for you.
Shari Leslie Segall, a writer who lives in Paris, has run and completed 19 marathons._________________________________________________________________
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Run Tomorrow - Sunday, June 8, 2008

Chennai Runners..

Date: Sunday, June 8, 2008
Assemble by : 5.00 a.m
Start Time: 5.15 a.m (sharp)
Starting Location: Dimensions Gym / Sony World , CP Ramaswamy Road, Abhiramapuram
Route: Classic or Classic Plus
Distance - The total distance is about 15 kms.. but you do what you are able to.. and you can always Do More..


Happy Running!!!

Please confirm your participation...

Water bottle belt - by runners, for runners

I have 10 water bottle belts with me from Running and Living. If anyone interested please contact me directly. I will be bringing them as well tomorrow. They are Rs 500 each. I just want to make clear that these are only belts, and runners have to arrange their own bottles.

Chetpet/Kilpauk Easy run tomorrow

Hello All,

Here’s an alternate run from the usual Dimensions runs.

Start Time: 0530 Hrs.
Start From: MCC School on Harrington Road
Route: MCC School to University Union Ground and back x 2 (two loops)

Nature of Run: Easy 10-11 mins per mile

Optional: Continue from University union and go through Egmore underpass to SDAT stadium to complete a few loops inside SDAT.


KK – Not sure if this is to be posted to the blog or site. Could you please help?

Regards,

Sandy

Run tomorrow - Tuesday, 3rd June 2008

Team

We will do our "flyover" run tomorrow morning...
Assemble, warm up & stretch: 5:00 am
Assemble at: Dimensions Gym, CP Ramaswamy Road, Alwarpet
Start: 5:15 a.m.
Route: Dimensions > CP Ramaswamy Road flyover > Poes Garden > RK Salai flyover > Nilgiris > return
Distance: Approx 5.5 km
And if you have not had enough of the "hills" you can go up and down the CP Ramaswamy Rd flyover a few times on the return leg!

Please confirm your participation.

Cheers
Ramesh