A long distance Runners Weblog [ Hari ]

Citizens Run On Sept 30th in Chennai

Happened to see a hoarding this morning about SS Music organizing a Citizen's Run in Chennai on Sept 30th. Caption says " If you can't Run, Walk on"

The run flags off at 4.00 p.m. Distance was not mentioned. Could not find anything on their official site though

A special Thanks to KK

A special thanks to KK  for singlehandedly organizing the ECR Run. KK, you have all the leadership skills, energy, perseverance, knowledge to organize a Marathon on your own. I wish you do it.

For runners who ran the ECR Run including me are not aware of the effort to organize an event of this size. KK had taken care of almost everything and not once asked any one of us for help nor dumped anything on us, infact was the other way around. Shumit and I were in charge for water, but we goofed up. KK without any hesitation arranged that as well, even volunteers, vans for coming back, end point resort, breakfast for all.

KK , i have no words to explain your contribution. You are truly an Evangelist for chennairunners

India Today Covers Chennairunners

Sneha run

Some pictures from the Sneha Run to mark the "World Sucide Prevention day"

Ramani from Chennairunners who ran in the 50+ yrs category came first . Here's Ramani in a strong finish

Yours truly taking the first place in the 35 - 50 yrs category. Fact is,  Shumit  and Vidyuth finished the 6 kms with me

Ram Viswananthan's son Raghav at the finish line. A definite leader for chennairunners in the future

My brother Lakshman at the finish line. Though he had a flight last night, he made it a point to run with us

Shreya won the 13 -17 yrs category. She's been a member of chennairunners since Aug 15th, but has not joined in for the runs. Hopefully now she'd join

Thanks to Ram viswanathan for the pictures and for arranging the BIBS / tees

"The Hindu" coverage on Chennairunners

The Hindu did an article on chennairunners. This article was published today, June11th.  Here's the link
http://www.hindu.com/2007/06/11/stories/2007061103330200.htm
The response is amazing with more than 40 new members signing up.. Few were 50+ young and have a 14 year old boy signing up as well..

Hope this article reaches out to a lot of enthusiasts and create awareness among people to take up running as an activity and to make everyone understand that each one of us can run a Marathon .

Running for a cause

Yesterday, I had an opportunity to run with Dr.Srinivasan who runs a not for profit organization called Jeevan Blood Bank . He runs for a Cause. Check Make blood Free .

His vision is to make available blood for free 24/7.
He will be running the British 10k run on July 1st 2007. He is running for Jeevan Blood Bank.

The Energetic and passionate Dr.Srinivasan is 53 years young and going strong . It all started with one of his close friends challenging him to run the 7k Dream run two years back in the Mumbai marathon.
That was when Dr.Srinivasan decided to run for a cause. His last run he remembers was in early 1970's during his MBBS.
Dr.Srinivasan did the 7k Dream run and as promised his friend donated 7 lakhs INR to the Blood Bank. Now he regularly runs 10 to 12 Kms and would be soon joining chennai runners for the weekend runs.

Running Club in Chennai

Have written a lot about Chennai runners . Finally, we have our own website now www.chennairunners.com
One of us wrote the content, another helped hosting it, someone designed the logo , tagline etc etc. Shows the enthusiasm among the runners.

We hope to become the most recognised Running Program in the country. With Nike , FitnessOne already supporting us, this is not a distant dream especially with people who have been running for years as part of our program.

We train together, swap stories, travel to races, but more importantly, it is belonging to a community, whether it's training for a 5k or a marathon, the common bond of running creates a family.

The site will have all our scheduled runs with routes, probably a discussion forums and much more..

Weekend Run

Oct 15th weekend run with Chennai Runners turned out to be a good Run with a lot of new runners joining the group.
We met at C.P. Ramaswamy road and did a 5 kms run till Anna University. Few more joined us there and we did 3 more laps of 2.2 miles each around the campus. We ended up with a speed interval on the track. we did a total distance of 15 kms and the new Runners showed a lot of enthusiasm with most of them wanting to participate in the Mumbai marathon on Jam 2007.
Found out speed intervals result in increase in pace in your long run and endurance too. Planning to do speed intervals every Wednesday of 10*800 mts