We were nine of us at the start point.
1.Narayanan
2.Ramesh Seshadri
3.Vilwa
4.Senthilanand
5.Sakthi
6.Bhargav
7.Yash
8.Shameek
9.Shankar Lal M Patel
We started with a good stretching pre-run and started the run at around 5:23 am and all decided to do a Classic Plus route. For some time I was leading all (which meant I was running at a faster pace than my normal) and slowly when we reached kotturpuram bridge slowly everyone overtook me and it was me and Shameek running together through the boat club loop, greenways road and just before the judges' colony I started walking and asked Shameek to go ahead. Shameek joined Bhargav for some time and then I was running with Bhargav on the Malar Hospital Bridge and Bhargav declared he wanted to do 10k as he is recovering from shin splints. I then turned left towards Besant Avenue and was running all alone till I reached AU.
At the time of finish, the crowd was bigger than the start since few more runners had joined subsequently (Anbu, Niranjan, Senthilanand's brother, Chandana, Ramani, few more runners).
Also we met Shahid whose had run for 2 hours and had to run 2 more hours. Yesterday he had run for 2 hours along with Karthik and VPS.
We started the stretching session lead by Yash and all felt good. The young man (sorry I don't know his name and remember he was there at our Anniversary), who runs regularly on the AU Ground tracks had brought some photos of his Yogaasan Postures and all were just dumbstruck. He twists his body like elastic effortlessly and he said for Long Distance runners yoga would help a lot for injury-free running.
The climate was runner friendly compared to the week days. Cloudy and less humid and was comparatively cooler.
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