So it's finally here. After weeks of waiting (actually a year and some more) I finally get to run the Chennai Trail Marathon (in three days time).
On Monday, my husband and I took a ride down to Red hills to figure out exactly where Gojan School of Business & Technology (the start & finish venue of the race) is. A faulty location link sent in the CTM mailer took us to a butcher shop somewhere on 80ft road in Red Hills. A second google maps search led us to the middle of nowhere. Imagine my dismay on hearing the words, "you have arrived at your destination" after the route had led us to an empty plot with a algae filled pond on one side & a settlement of huts on the other. Nobody that we asked had even heard of this college so after riding around the area for a bit, we decided to turn around and head home.
After contacting the race officials, I was informed that the location link they'd sent was indeed wrong and a couple of days later an updated link pointing to the right location on google maps was sent. This is marked at a point about 6 kilometers further than the place our google map search took us to. I don't want to be hunting around desperately for the venue on race-day morning so come Saturday, we're going to be making another dry run to this elusive start-point.
The official route map along with some dos and don'ts and some trail images has found its way to my inbox raising my anticipation levels even more. I just hope I'm not over-hyping this run in my head.
As work-outs go, I've been keeping it very light this week. Today, I ran my last run before the race - a short and easy 3K run on the terrace of my building. 30 laps around a 100 meter loop was definitely boring but served its purpose. I will be continuing with light exercises, some yoga, some strength and lots of stretching until Saturday.
I'm so ready for this!
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