It was pleasant weather for the runners except for the humidity and as decided there were two groups. One Group started at around 4:40am and other at the regular timing of 5:15am.
The Members of First Group gathered at Main Gate were Arun, Shahid, Ramani, Siva, Manish, Ramesh Mckinsey (though I had not met him I learnt from Ramani's mail he was there, may be joined them near Cafeteria or the Kotturpuram Gate) and myself.
Ramani, Siva, Manish and Ramesh Mckinsey had started to take on the Chennai Roads and Arun, Shahid and Myself had decided to do the loops inside the AU campus.
Arun was leading us (Shahid and me) into the untraced parts of AU Campus and both Arun and Shahid had to compromise on their pace to keep running with me. Just before we were to complete the first loop we had seen the Second Group gathered near Cafeteria ( around 10-12 runners) to start their run. The runners were clapping and motivating us. We reached the main gate parking where we all three had our cars parked for the energy drink and water.
We went on with the loops and Arun and Shahid were kind enough, whenever they had gone ahead, to run back to see whether I was ok. But I could manage only 20kms and after that I could not push myself.
After the run we had a good crowd at the Cafeteria and had a good chat session. Met Rajamanickam who ran his 35k from Ambattur to AU after the breakfast.
Learnt that everyone had a good run this Sunday. Way to go Chennai Runners.....
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