The Group consisting of four members were to complete 20K in RFL relay each covering 5K. Team RunWalkIndia had to arrive at the venue of Olde Bangalore with two short of making two teams ie., Myself, Harish H.A, Pramod, Ganesh Hegde, Nagaraj and Mahendra. A team was registered with the names of young lads.Then our call for anybody to join us was heard by Mr. Meenakshi Sundaram & Mr. Chandrashekar to make up the RunWalkIndiaA1team.
After the registration formalities and race directions by Mr.Aravind Bharati , the teams were handed each a relay baton attached with a RF Card to be carried by each runner and to pass on to the next runner in waiting.
The young team started with Ganesh Hegde and the A1 team was spear headed by me. With not much of confidence I just thought I should try and complete the 5K atleast by 40 min and that is what I told my team mates to wait for the next 30-40 min patiently for me. With a little warm up and with Ganesh beside me we ran from the start point leading out the Olde Bangalore Main Gate and headed Northwest, With Bangalore growing in the real estate business and mushrooming of several resorts in and around the BIAL it has been quite a development in this part of the area, but still the greenery has been allowed to stay put around all these resorts. The well laid roads in the green belt gives a perfect trial route for runners. Well, continued my run enjoying the cool breeze across the raw nature chatting with Ganesh who was quite stronger than me with a running practice of 7-8 km regularly. It will not be fair if I do not accept and appreciate this young lad who will grow up to be running –gentleman. Inspite of me pushing him forward to go ahead and take the lead he stood by me when I slowed and walked and when I was on the return path helped me to stretch and continue saying “We are just round the corner and we shall finish together” and what a relief for me complete the 5K quite comfortably leaving behind the pain & strain which I thought will be bygone after a good rest & sleep. The Baton was passed on and when I went on to see my timings I was more than happy that I achieved 5K within my expected 40min and my timings was 38:28 min , Our other teammates went on to finish quickly with better timings;
Meenakshi Sundaram : 32:28 min, Chandrashekar : 25:48 min , Harish HA : 29:33 min.
The young RunWalkIndia team bettered the timings covering 20K less than 2hrs.
Ganesh Hegde: 38:21min; Mahendra : 29:49min, Nagaraj : 26:07 min & Pramodh : 24:21min. (Pals if I have jumbled your timings with another please bear with me and send me your correct timings). All participants RFL relay timings are listed with some photos on the runners for life site.
Ganesh went on to do another lap not satisfied with running slowly alongwith me, I am proud to have a runmate Ganesh with whom I wish to run many such runs. Thanks Ganesh for your support, wish you will stand support to many such runners in your path.
The track timer management has to be highly appreciated which helped us to know our timings managed by techie Mr. Madhu Shetty, Director, M/s.Indigo information systems. They used a RFID system which tracks & reads the cards on the baton and registers the timings on the system placed at the finish.
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