Feb 7, 2010 - Sunday Long AU Run

Making this a very brief one.

Runners today were Ramani, Vilwa, Madhavan, Senthil Anand, 'McKinsey' Ramesh, Shahid and Karthik.

Started just past 5:20 and runners paired or tripled up and did their runs. :-)

Shahid and I turned back from Velankani Church and ran home, and so do not know if the stretching and breakfast happened.

This was the last long one before Auroville. Looks as if everyone is geared up for that. Happy running folks.

Run Schedule for Tomorrow - Sunday, Feb 7, 2010

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Dear Chennai Runners

Auroville Marathon is just a week away.. Are you ready? Let's do one long run tomorrow..

Run Schedule for tomorrow..

Date: Feb 7, 2010
Day: SundayAssemble by : 5.00 a.m
Start Time: 5.15 a.m
Starting Location: Anna University - Near Cafeteria (which is close to the Anna University athletic grounds)

Parking: Two options..

Near the main entrance via Raj Bhavan Road (This is open all the time.. and use this entrance if you are coming before 5:00 AM)

Near the side entrance via the Kotturpuram Road. (Gate opens only @ 5:00 AM, sometimes you have to gently push the sleeping security guard to open the gate for you..)

Route: Classic or Classic Plus (Pl. familiarize with the route @ run.com).

Distance - The total distance is about 15+ kms.. but you do what you are able to.. and remember.. you can always Do More.. and for that you should Start Running..

Happy Running!!!

Please confirm your participation...

Beginners and experienced alike..: We would like all of you to join us in the run and have loads of run.. but if you are not join us @ 5:15 AM for some reason.. come down to Anna University anyways and run what you can.. and joins us for the informal 'networking' dutch breakfast at Anna University Cafeteria around 7:30 AM.

Anna University Cafeteria Location - Starting Point for Sunday Runs

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Feb 4, 2010 - Thursday: Circuit training with Sandy, MCC school

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Let's get this out upfront: Today was special.

We had VPS, Nandita (VPS's better half), Shahid, Sudhir Ahuja, moi (Karthik) put through our straps by the pro himself - Sandy. We had done a 3 lap warm-up (~1.5 k) when Sandy joined us around 6:15 and got the circuit training started by 6:25 or so.

It was clear right away from the way he loped across the track to mark a 30 mt line, that he was in a different league of his own. 30 meters!? C'mon, that doesn't seem long for people aspiring to run 42 kms, but trust me, for some of those exercises that we had to do, it was long - very long.

We warmed up with some skips. I hadn't realized that there were so many variations in good ol' skipping - we did normal skips, fast skips, high-knee skips, long skips and a few others in between.

(All pics courtesy Nandita - Thanks)

Warmed up more with some criss-cross side walks/ runs, and a back run (yeah, just run backwards - but try that without losing your lane :-) )

That was then followed by the lunge-walk which was a total killer.

Probably the most hilarious one was the hop. The school time one legged hop - except that Sandy looked like a one-legged kangaroo effortlessly loping over the track while I resembled a crippled duck. This had variations too where we had to hop as long and high as possible. Ouch.

The 30 m was getting longer and longer. We actually had to reduce to 15 m for some of these ones.

Bounding came next - similar to running, but we had to imagine that there were puddles which we had to leap over: so basically, long, jumping strides, which was much tougher than it looked.

Finally came the 3 short sprint bursts. Never knew there was so much technique and posture to it. Fantastic.

Finished off with a slow jog and a walk around the track.

A terrific session. Thanks a ton Sandy. VPS - Owe you one for posting and getting this done. We loved it so much that we are going to be needing more of this, hopefully every week after Auroville.

Wednesday (03 Feb 2010) Run from Alwarpet - Post Run Report

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Hi All,

"We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable."
-Sir Roger Bannister, first runner to run a sub-4 minute mile

Ram and myself were there at start point and decided to run to Anna University via Boat Club, River view road, AU and back to start point. Ram said this would be around 9-10kms.

We started and there was some problem with my Garmin and by the time we were about to reach the new flyover after the Boat Club loop, it beeped to say Lap 1 (3kms) in 12m:35s and I was stunned and knew definitely we have not covered 3kms and even if we had covered not in 12mins. I just rebooted and started again.

The climate was cooler and we reached Anna University and did inner loop and wanted to take a short cut through a small gate which leads to the main road but when we reached there it was closed and hence we had take the same gate on the Kotturpuram side we entered and then took a short walk break ( we had run around 9.66kms in 58 mins as per Ram's Garmin) and continued running through St.Mary's Road and reached the start point via the De Monte Colony. Since we both forgot our head bands we discussed many things related to running and also some good mentoring from Ram with regards to Time Management. Thanks Ram.

Finally the total run was 13.29kms in 1h:22min @ 6m:17s/km as per Ram's Garmin. (As always it was Ram's 9-10kms run).

Then we had a good core strengthening session after the regular stretches.

Tuesday (02 Feb 2010) Gandhi Vanakkam Run from Alwarpet - Post Run Report

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Hi All,

Today I had tough time convincing myself ( read as my mind) to cover the distance from my bed to the shoe rack.

Ramesh McKinsey, Rajesh S and myself were there at the start point. Ramesh Mckinsey was out of action ( read running/walking more than 5kms, but he was regular to gym) due to his ankle injury that he had 6 weeks back doing the same run on a Tuesday along with me and Balaji.

Today he declared that he wants to run slowly till Gandhi Vanakkam to see if he is ok doing a longer distance of 9-10kms. Myself and Rajesh were happy that we can run together but just after the start before we reached the first Flyover he had already taken off like a jet and was not seen.

Rajesh and myself were running at our pace and Rajesh was struggling a bit from the beginning. Rajesh told the weather was more chillier than the previous days, which I could also feel. But was perfect for the running.

On our way just before reaching the Gandhi Statue, we saw Vilwa running down on the other side of the road and waved hands and we ran till Gandhi Statue and then took a break for stretching and started our run back. We did not take the flyovers on return as the option was left to me to decide and I did not want to strain much.

I ran the final 400m running faster,finished stronger and felt great. Ramesh did his around 8.6kms at 9.6kmph (This is what he meant as slow run!!!) had a good run. Rajesh and me did 9.11kms in 1:00hr @ 9.1kmph.

Ramesh shared a very important information that in a Marathon, the first half is done with your legs and the later half is by your Core and upper body. Thanks for the information.

Sunday (31st Jan) Long Run - Post Run Report

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Hi All,

It seems the month (January) has gone by super fast. We were just
running the year end runs and then the Muthu Marathon and SCMM 2010
and already we are at the end of the month.

"Time and tide waits for no men"

We were 15 at the start point.
1.Ram
2.Ramani
3.Ramesh Seshadri
4.Bhargav
5.Senthilanand
6.Bharani Shivakumar
7.Vasanth
8.Avinash
9.Shahid
10.Saravanan
11.Gautama
12.Manish Bindroo
13.Karthik Padmanabhan
14.Madhavan
15.Shankar Lal M Patel

Few of us decided to do Half and others Classic.

The weather was just perfect for the runners, chill and breezy.

All had a very good run. I entered into IIT Campus (Luckily I was not
stopped, did anyone else get into IIT?)

At the end of the run could find few more runners had run may be they
started late. Venkat Rangan, Harishankar (with all his bones
intact!!!), Siva, Srinath....

Post run there was very good stretch session. Also was lot of Internal
Jogging. Yes... Internal Jogging = Laughter, which gives the internal
organs the workout to keep them healthy. When Manish is around there
is no shortage for laughter.

We all had a good breakfast at Cafeteria and dispersed.

Run Schedule for tomorow - Sunday, Jan 31, 2010

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Dear Chennai Runners

Auroville Marathon is just 2 weeks away.. Are you ready?

Run Schedule for tomorrow..

Date: Jan 31, 2009
Day: SundayAssemble by : 5.00 a.m
Start Time: 5.15 a.m
Starting Location: Anna University - Near Cafeteria (which is close to the Anna University athletic grounds)

Parking: Two options..

Near the main entrance via Raj Bhavan Road (This is open all the time.. and use this entrance if you are coming before 5:00 AM)

Near the side entrance via the Kotturpuram Road. (Gate opens only @ 5:00 AM, sometimes you have to gently push the sleeping security guard to open the gate for you..)

Chennai Runners

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Feb 7, 2010 - Sunday Long AU Run

Run Schedule for Tomorrow - Sunday, Feb 7, 2010

Feb 4, 2010 - Thursday: Circuit training with Sandy, MCC school

Wednesday (03 Feb 2010) Run from Alwarpet - Post Run Report

Tuesday (02 Feb 2010) Gandhi Vanakkam Run from Alwarpet - Post Run Report

Sunday (31st Jan) Long Run - Post Run Report

Run Schedule for tomorow - Sunday, Jan 31, 2010