Skip to main content

The Wipro Chennai Marathon starts at OMR

             
The Wipro Chennai Marathon
Courtesy : https://www.facebook.com/TheWiproChennaiMarathon
                                  Time to flex fitness muscles in Chennai for the health maniacs, The Wipro Chennai Marathon starts tomorrow at OMR (December 01,2013) next to Indhira nagar MRTS station .Started in 2012 this event brings together runners across the country and the world at Chennai for a full day event. Organised by Wipro technologies, the software giant and Chennai runners , a non profit organisation this event is partnered by United Way as a charity partner.

Events:

                                 There are three events organised as part of this marathon

Full Marathon

                   This covers a distance of 42.2 km and starts near Indira nagar at OMR at 5 am and ends at CPT ground. This is for experienced runners who have taken rigorous training and run atleast half a marathon before.

The map can be found here:
http://www.thewiprochennaimarathon.com/emailer/pdf/42k-run-route.pdf

Half Marathon

                   This covers a distance of 21.1 km and starts at 5.15 am and starts and ends at the same spots.
Those who have little experience before can give a try at this.

The map can be found here:
http://www.thewiprochennaimarathon.com/emailer/pdf/21k-run-route.pdf

10 km run

                   This starts at 6.30 am and starts and ends at the same spots as well. This is for newbies
The map can be found here:
http://www.thewiprochennaimarathon.com/emailer/pdf/10k-run-route.pdf


The finishers will be given  finisher medals and breakfast which is collected along with the registration fee.
       
Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/TheWiproChennaiMarathon

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Bus stops @ OMR

                                        OMR is almost a straight highway, taking a bus ride can be smooth except at few junctions like Tidel park and Shollinganallur.Though MTC offers nearly 400 trips a day, buses are often crowded.The hot sun adds to the uneasiness.There are a few AC buses though mostly taken by IT professionals working in software companies situated along the IT corridor.                                         To take these bus rides, commuters have to wait at bus stops situated along the road.There are 23 major bus stops as of now and two routes , one from Adyar to Kelambakkam and the other from Velachery to Kelambakkam.Both these routes meet at SRP tools. Source : Wiki The stops from Madhya Kailash are: Madhya Kailash CPT or Indhira Nagar Railway station...

Map of Old Mahabalipuram Road

Can you spot OMR in the below satellite view of South Chennai? By w:user:PlaneMad (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons The first two are quite misleading , but is the third parallel road! that is OMR. The roads starting from left are: 1.ECR (East Coast Road 2. Buckingam Canal 3.OMR (Old Mahabalipuram Road) Below is the map of old mahabalipuram road from Google Maps: View Larger Map OMR stretches over a distance of 20.1 km from Madhya Kailash to Siruseri which was built as part of Phase I and Phase 2 which is under construction covers a distance of 26.8 km from Siruseri to Poonjeri where it joins East Coast Road, That makes OMR almost a 50 km long highway!          Traffic at any time in OMR can be found here: Traffic at OMR Now Happy Ride!

The 'Old' behind Old Mahabalipuram Road

                                           Old Mahabalipuram Road as the name suggests is the route to Mahabalipuram from Chennai.Until 1960 s though the route was not an easy one.Those who wanted to go to Mahabalipuram from Chennai had to take this route                        Guindy -> Chrompet -> Tambaram -> Chingelput -> Tirukazhukundram -> Mahabalipuram Courtesy : Wikipedia From Tirukazhukundram to Mahabalipuram the road was so poor that one had to take a boat through Buckingam Canal to reach Mahabalipuram.Lt.Conell Herbert Andrews Newell of the Indian Army took this route 91 years ago and published his travel journey under the title 'Topee and Turban'.He describes the scenic beauty in his article as he took this route in his car, a 1913 Sunbeam ( To Mahabalipuram , 91 years ago ). ...