RFL Hashers in Colombo

[Jagannath Raju]

Quite a few of the Hash group were in Colombo for the weekend for the 2nd South Asia InterHash. On Saturday there was a 190 Km Relay run from Colombo to Habarana in which 15 teams of 8 runners each ran 13 Km segments. Four of us from RFL (Sunil Chainani, Sunil Padmanabhan, Mihir Naik and I) ended up in the same team along with two Bangalore women hashers (Nina and Sharmishtha) topped up by two others from the Colombo Hash. Though the hash is non-competitive, there was a prize for the fastest team to encourage hashers not to spend more time drinking and dawdling than running. The average speed over the entire run was 15.3 Kmph, the 3rd fastest team was clocked at 15.8, the second fastest at 15.9 and the winning team (no prizes for guessing its identity) at 18+ Kmph. As a team we would have left Ashok Nath eating our dust.. :-) Chak de, RFL, Chak de, BH3, Chak de, Bangalore...

Jugy

[Madhu]

Allright! What the heck does Chak De mean?

Also, 18KMPH means roughly 10K in 32 minutes? I didn't know you guys were that fast?

Madhu

[Dharmendra D]

Jugy,
This means that your team ran abt 13 km in 40 mins?! I didn't know you
guys could run this fast.

What were the highest & lowest speeds in your team?

This is fairly incredible. In fact, it is just 3 kmph shy of world record pace.
Congratulations.

Regards,
D

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[Jagannath Raju]

Have no idea what it really means but it has been used for "keep it up" in addition to "let's go and win" etc. Think the roots of the phrase are in Punjabi.

We were each sprinting short distances and handing the baton over and recycling through the team -  4 of us were doing 100-200m sprints or tempo pace, the women 50-100m. It was just like speed training (in team format?) and I was really sucking air after the first few turns. I think the hill training helped to keep the pace. On the Monday run in Colombo (hot and humid) there were quite a few steep grades that I had fun attacking and "conquering". The Colombo Hash were quite concerned that Bangalore Hash is more of a running club than a hash chapter!!

Jugy

[Nischal]

Hehe, Madhu, to live in complete blissful ignorance of a nation wide frenzy :-)

[Dineshkumar]

Let me try and explain Chak De with example. It is very Punjabi in its origin.

 

Say, you are a weight lifter. You are about to lift it up above your shoulder, a call of chak de would mean  Common lift it up

You have bat in your hand the ball is inviting a sixer, a call of chak de means go for a sixer.

You have a ball in the D area, a call for chak De would mean go for the goal.

You are in the last lap, a shout of Chak de would mean speed up and break the record.

A farmer is trying to lift a heavy bag from the ground to his head. Chak de would mean heave it.

In literal sense, it would mean lift it, throw it.

 

A word of encouragement

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From: Madhu

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Subject: [RFL] Re: RFL Hashers in Colombo

[Partha Roy]

Dinesh

Thanks for the explanation. I tried the geeky way and found the
explanation in Urban Dictionary. The URL is http://www.urbandictionary.com/.
The full phrase is "Chak De Phatte". According to Urban Dictionary ...

Chak De Phatte -though loosely translated as pick up the floorboards
is more of a war cry than a housekeeping call. The origins of the
phrase lie in the times when the Khalsa i.e. the original warrior
Sikhs were formed, they would cross canals and attack Mughal camps in
a blitzkrieg attack and then just as they came would retreat leaving
the enemy helpless. ...

Read on the full article here http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chak+de+phatte

Cheers

Partha

PS: I have been trying to find out what is the meaning of "Mahi Ve" &
"Shava - Shava" . So far no luck. Any enlightened soul ?

On Oct 4, 1:57 pm, Dineshkumar <deekayj...@dataone.in> wrote:
> Let me try and explain Chak De with example. It is very Punjabi in its origin.
>
> Say, you are a weight lifter. You are about to lift it up above your shoulder, a call of chak de would mean Common lift it up
> You have bat in your hand the ball is inviting a sixer, a call of chak de means go for a sixer.
> You have a ball in the D area, a call for chak De would mean go for the goal.
> You are in the last lap, a shout of Chak de would mean speed up and break the record.
> A farmer is trying to lift a heavy bag from the ground to his head. Chak de would mean heave it.
> In literal sense, it would mean lift it, throw it.
>
> A word of encouragement
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Madhu
> To: runnersforli...@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 1:46 PM
> Subject: [RFL] Re: RFL Hashers in Colombo
>
> Allright! What the heck does Chak De mean?
>
> Also, 18KMPH means roughly 10K in 32 minutes? I didn't know you guys were that fast?
>
> Madhu
>

[N S Muthukumaran]

Fantastic ! Congratulations! Do share with us the secret to your speed!
Regards
Muthu

On 10/4/07, Jagannath Raju <jaganna...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Partha Roy]

Let's try this relay out in one of our runs.

Cheers
Partha

[Subramanian]

Wowww !! Really a great run guys, am still not able to digest with the 18
kmph .. Great achievement,

Really would like to know the secret behind that speed run so that everyone
can start practicing on the same line... Hey, I hope that run does not
include any sort of help from Ricks (Auto).....:-)

Guys, My hearty congrats to you.....

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From: "N S Muthukumaran" <ns.muth...@gmail.com>
To: <runnersforli...@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 3:05 PM
Subject: [RFL] Re: RFL Hashers in Colombo

>

[GEEK#1]

http://runnersforlife-bangalore.googlegroups.com/web/Relay_winners.jpg

Definitely will share the secret of the run with all of you :)

Cheers
Sunil

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[Sunil Chainani]

Hi - the baton kept moving and was handed over from one runner to another
(so no ricks!!) - so it was not just speed, but required good coordination
as each of us ran between 50 and 200 metre legs - if you take an average run
to be 150 metres, then each of the 8 runners ran 9 times with about 4
minutes recovery each time. We ran on a busy road from Colombo to Habarana
and were sometimes slowed down by the traffic!! Only two of the group had
run such a relay earlier, and we had no practice....the key was to run as
fast as you could and hand over the baton as soon as you started tiring...

Regards

Sunil

[S S]

CONGRATULATIONS !!!!!!

 

Shankar and Shobana

Jagannath Raju <jaganna...@gmail.com> wrote:

Quite a few of the Hash group were in Colombo for the weekend for the 2nd South Asia InterHash. On Saturday there was a 190 Km Relay run from Colombo to Habarana in which 15 teams of 8 runners each ran 13 Km segments. Four of us from RFL (Sunil Chainani, Sunil Padmanabhan, Mihir Naik and I) ended up in the same team along with two Bangalore women hashers (Nina and Sharmishtha) topped up by two others from the Colombo Hash. Though the hash is non-competitive, there was a prize for the fastest team to encourage hashers not to spend more time drinking and dawdling than running. The average speed over the entire run was 15.3 Kmph, the 3rd fastest team was clocked at 15.8, the second fastest at 15.9 and the winning team (no prizes for guessing its identity) at 18+ Kmph. As a team we would have left Ashok Nath eating our dust.. :-) Chak de, RFL, Chak de, BH3, Chak de, Bangalore...

Jugy

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[Bobby Kunnath]

Jugy,

Stunning pace...are you sure about that?

 Congrats to all

bk

On 10/4/07, Jagannath Raju < jaganna...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Jagannath Raju]

A great idea - for speed training. We will need a minimum of 2 teams of 6 runners each and a proper 400 m track so that one does not worry about footing whilst sprinting. Goal would be to do 10 Km in 30 mins for a 20 Kmph average pace. With more runners we can have more teams limited only by the number of lanes available on the track.

Teams can compete in parallel in separate lanes. Each team will get 10 mins to warm up and devise their strategy - essentially to optimise distance and pace for each runner. They start off together and we can see if any of the teams can hit the finish line (25 laps) in 30 mins.

We can do this at a speed training session rather than a regular run??

Jugy

[thushar kumar]

i'd most certainly like to be a part of this

-thushar

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[Satsang Randhelia]

awesome plan!! i'm game..

how about doing it on a saturday... may be the next one....or even tomorrow??
venue could be kanteerva stadium..

what say folks - move ur figures fast!!!

cheers!
satsang

On 10/5/07, Jagannath Raju <jaganna...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Bobby Kunnath]

interesting concept, but fairly hard to do. Passing a baton at that speed is'nt easy. Looking forward to seeing how you all did

bk