One extra snooze made me reach C P Ramasamy road at 5:15 am and Ram, Ramesh Seshadri, Narayanan and Karthik Padmanabhan were ready after stretching and I made them wait for 2 minutes to do my stretching and was asking Ram " How are we going to add the extra 3k to make it 15k?" Ram said he has to come back home by 6:15 and hence he would do only 9k and would right turn after Malar and via Gandhi Nagar he would reach the start point.
All others had decided to do the regular route and Ram, Narayanan and Ramesh were running together and Karthik and me were together. Ramesh and Narayanan were doing 4:1 run/walk.
When we were on the Besant Avenue stretch, Karthik said lets run through The School route as that is very scenic and has fresh air and we turned right just before the Church. When we hit the beach we both started walking until we hit the U-Turn near the Velankanni Temple.
We started running and went via the same route which we came and Ramesh and Narayanan had taken the longer route. Then Karthik led me into new roads than the normal route. I was following him and we were ahead of Ramesh and Narayanan when we reached Malar Hospital and made Ramesh and Narayanan wondering.
At the final stretch we all burst ourselves with a good pace and reached the start point and stretched well and used "The Stick" to massage our muscles. I thanked Narayanan for carrying the Stick from US for me.
Finally it was a 11.76 kms in 1h 18 mins as per my Garmin data.
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