Tuesday Run - Dimensions - Gandhi Vanakkam - Dimensions - Post Run Report

Hi All,

It was a cool Tuesday morning and we were seven of us at the start point outside Dimensions Gym. Did stretching and Ram explained the route to Srivatsallan and Harishankar to Ramesh Balan as both were new to this route.

1.Ram Viswanathan

2.Harishankar

3.Karthik Padmanabhan

4.Senthilanand

5.Ramesh Balan

6.Srivatsallan alias Salla (A newbie to Chennai Runners)

7.Shankar Lal M Patel

We all decided to do the Gandhi Vanakkam and back. We set off at around 5:17am and as soon as we started Senthilanand (due to the mild knee pain) and Karthik announced that they want to run at my pace. May be they did not know that whenever Harishankar is there you cannot actually run at your pace. We were almost together except Ram and Salla as Ram had taken a extra loop towards Poes garden and Salla was not able to keep up at our pace. We had landed the flyover on the R.K.Salai (Cathedral Road) and then came the push from Harishankar till we hit the Beach Road and I crossed the road and thought I could take a brief rest till others cross the Beach Road but they did not cross the Beach Road and I was asked to cross the road and join them running back to Dimensions.

We started our return run but I was half exhausted so was Karthik and Senthil was running slowly as not to aggravate his knee pain and Harishankar could not run at our (slower) pace anymore and he zoomed at his pace and then Ram pulled us along for another 1k-1.5k and then Ram also ran ahead. When we (Senthil, Ramesh and myself) had reached opposite the Nilgiri's, met KK (he started late from Dimensions) running in opposite direction and by the time we were on the top of Alwarpet flyover Ram was doing his repeat of flyover and then Ramesh and I decided to run the last leg at higher pace to finish stronger.

As per my Garmin the distance covered was 9.29kms in 01h:04m. It was a mix of Flyovers and Interval run. Thanks Harishankar for the push and finally the stretching session commanded by Ram was very much effective and Karthik would vouch for the same. Thanks Ram.

@Srivatsallan : Don't worry about the distance and pace because I was also in the same situation as you are, 7 months back, just keep running regularly and everything would be under your control.