After much facebook crawling I found a chapter of Chennai Runners that run in Nungambakkam (called the Nungambakkam Nitros) and I joined them today.
Running with others (as I had previously discovered) is phenomenally better for me than just running by myself. This group has a good mix of beginner & seasoned runners and they meet on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays every week for organized training sessions. Trying to keep pace with the faster runners really helped me improve my pace.
They start their runs at Haddows Park and today the easy recovery run was done till the over-bridge on Cathedral Road and back to Haddows Park - a total of 5 km. Adding the 1.7 k jog from my place to Haddows park makes my run total of 6.7 k on a day that I had planned to rest and take it easy.
It was a good run followed by a quick coffee session at Raj Bhavan which was fun, light and quite informative too. No one in my immediate friends circle is into running so it felt great to be part of conversations centered around running.
I hope this is the beginning of something awesome!
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