Run @ Nandi Hills

This was a happening weekend on the running front. Will start from Friday, didn't do anything bad on Friday night (Bad to be read as Partying :-P) and slept early, Saturday was the regular Cubbon run with the Red Dragon ganag, did around 12K on Saturday and the run was followed by a lively breakfast filled with discussion at Airlines. We decided on Saturday itself to run on Nandi hills on Sunday morning.

Sunday:

We started at around 5:45 am from Koramangla, it took us exactly one hour to reach the base of the hill, all of us were running at Nandi Hills for the first time. I started a little fast, only to realize it in a while that if I run at this pace I would be gone in about 3-4K, so decreased the pace, the initial 4k was okay I would say, we were prepared for such steep inclines, but the worst was in store for us, the last 4K was definitely the toughest I have run till date, when I used to drive through the same terrain I never realized that this road would be such a tough one to run! We got our share of attention from the people who were driving Nandi Hills, most of the people who passed us were going uphill to see the sunrise, and everybody had this question mark on their faces.... why ????? Well I loved the attention and curiosity that they had.

We treated ourselves with a good Nariyal Paani and Parle-G biscuits,we needed those as the only Gatorade bottle that Prateek had was snatched by a Monkey! As soon as we reached the point where everybody assembled to see the sunrise, the crowd became quiet, and it was really very embarrassing for us, probably this time we got too much attention! We covered the distance of 8K (uphill) in about 1hr 10 min.

Running downhill was tough as well, with all the traffic returning, Sun was cruel on us, and it was a lot humid as well, but apart from all these things I think running downhill is a totally different game, controlling your speed and avoiding any knee and ankle injuries.

There was a lot of things that I observed while running, things that you don't notice while driving:

-well the first observation is, the (the Bangaloreans) have made Nandi hills a very dirty place, the Road had really bad patched where a lot of Beer Bottle / Plastics / Chips packets were scattered, it really doesnt take any effort to take these things back with you, but I really don't know why people prefer to throw them.

- Monkeys: lots of them, but most of them were harmless
- The sound of your feet thumping, can give you a real high!
- Heavenly Silence
- Sunrise

Song Today: Koi Fariyad...