I had decided to do a 7 -8 kms and reached C.P. Ramasamy Road to see only Ram at the start point and Ram already decided his distance of 15kms and I agreed to run 15km to War Memorial and back via Gandhi Vanakkam.
We started at a good pace and reached Gandhi Vanakkam with two flyovers and took left turn and had a strong wind making us to put extra energy to keep the pace and we were happy as this wind would push us when we return. We met Vilva doing his run at the Marina Beach stretch.
The Marina Beach stretch has been beautified but runners have to be very careful if running on the Granite and if its wet due to rain forget about running but walking would also trip you down. This is what is my examination report.
We took right immediately after the Napier Bridge which leads to Coast Guard building and we ran till the "INS Adyar" and we went crossing the barricade and the security of Navy thought we were intruding into prohibited area. We just ran and touched the Black Gate and returned and said to the Security that we can now say that we had run upto the INS Adyar's main gate and we started walking for some time.
We started our run after crossing Napier Bridge and were surprised the expected Wind, which we presumed would push, had disappeared and had to run on our own.
Then we ran until we passed by the KK's House ( its our KK but our CM) and took a brief walk of 3 mins and started to run non stop till start point.
When the last 200 meters was left Ram increased the pace and I was left behind and decided to overtake Ram before he reaches the start point and just about 20m before the start point I overtook Ram and declared "Sorry Ram I am overtaking you" and Ram suddenly increased his pace to match mine and we both reached together.
It was great mid-week long run. It turned out to be 16.79 kms in 1h:56mins.
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