CMM 2009 - Hot ! Hot ! Hot !

[Thanigaivelan Muthu]

Hello there -

Country Music Marathon event has seen one of the hottest weather in its 10 year history. The temperature at start was in mid 60's and in an hour it reached 70. At 9:15 AM the temperature was 77 degree F and kept rising. The best part is the breeze and plenty of drinks served through out the course.

We had a great participation from Indian community in this years event. In my observation around 40 Indians participated in this years event out of which 15 are current swas friends and the rest are future swas friends. I recall the day 6 years ago when Nandhan and I finished the race and was disappointed that we were alone in the crowd of 22,000 people.

The race results will be posted to teamswas website this week. Including myself everyone's pace slowdown this year. Even though I practiced well this year, I was not prepared to handle the heat. Since I end up walking little over a mile towards the end I set a new personal record for slowest run, at 9:58 pace. My best timing in the first CMM participation was 8:04. I am determined to train in hot weather this summer.

Everyone, please share your experience.

The next team swas group practice in Nashville is scheduled for May 9th at 8:00 AM in Shelby Park, downtown. Looking forward to meet everyone there.

Keep swasing...

Thanigs

[anilkj...@yahoo.com]

I want to invite Teamswas to join IAN. We will put a link to IAN website to further reach out Indian community. I do remember running races in Nashville in 1980's when I along with another Indian ladies ran.

My goal is to have IAN man the water stop and or support a race in Nashville.

Anil Jain

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From: Thanigaivelan Muthu
Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:58:10 -0500
To: <team...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: CMM 2009 - Hot ! Hot ! Hot !

[Pravin Thirumalaisubbu]

Hello,

I do not have a lot of experience in distance running. This year CMM is my 4th. But I realized how much practice pays. I had bad muscle, less practice adding up to worse finish (40 mins slower than my best time). I was upset when I finished the race but I am happy now because I am able to walk. Lessons learned, "never compromise training". 

See you all in Murfreesboro 1/2 marathon event.

Thank you

Pravin

[kishore tummala]

Hi Fellow Swasies,
           It was good to meet you all after the race.
           This was my 2nd CMM and my 3rd Half Marathon.
           I did improve my time from previous races. I am happy from that perspective. But i am a bit disappointed that i didn't run better.
           I did lot of preparation this year. But i cheated a bit by doing my long runs on flatter courses. And the new hills added to CMM didn't help me a bit.
           Next year, I will try to cheat less during my practice runs.
          
          Thanks for the beer and tea shirt.


Regards
Kishore

[Pravin Thirumalaisubbu]

Just thought to share this...

I bought a bumper sticker in the convention center. It reads something like this...

"Courage is not that I finished, courage is that I started"

-Pravin

[Sachin Nednur]

Just thought to share useful resource for our running practices.

http://www.mapmyride.com/

This is the website, I used to chart my practice trails. This gives us the exact distances of the practice trail, elevations of the practice trails and many such useful trivia. I found it very useful tool. Let me know if you need any help navigating through the site.

Go Swas go.

[santosh kumar]

Bumper sticker on the back of my car reads" running is a mental sport, and we are all insane" :)

Happy running !

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From: Pravin Thirumalaisubbu
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:25:26 -0500
To: <team...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: Re: CMM 2009 - Hot ! Hot ! Hot !

[anilkj...@yahoo.com]

I would like one person from Team Swas to attend the IAN meeting on May 3rd at Holiday Inn, Old Hickory Blvd. Near Brentwood. Also, want to invite the Team Swas to IAN picnic on May 9th at 11- 2 at Crockett Park in Brentwood.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

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From: "santosh kumar"
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:04:36 +0000

[Rao Patri]

It was great to see everyone last weekend.  No matter what the speed (and pain of course) I am glad to have done my #5.

 

I checked with the doctor regarding my foot and am told I have plantar fasciitis.  I would encourage you all to learn a little about it and take steps to avoid it.  I went by fleet feet and picked up shoe inserts, flip flops, rolling ball (for calf stretching) and the strassburg sock for nighttime wear.  I have been educated about this in the last few days and am attacking the problem hard.  I hope to start hitting the gym in a few days – not sure about running though. 

 

Pravin please e-mail me your address.  Thanks

nammu

 

From: team...@googlegroups.com [mailto:team...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Pravin Thirumalaisubbu
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 10:25 PM
To: team...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: CMM 2009 - Hot ! Hot ! Hot !

 

Just thought to share this...

[Chaitanya Kovvuri]

Team,

 

Lets meet this evening at 6.30 pm @ Beer Sellar http://www.beersellar.net/nashville/default.html  to celebrate our CMM accomplishments and plan our May 8 event at Shelby Bottom Park ; 

 

Beer Sellar is on Church street between 1st and 2nd Avenue. Thanks to Kishore for coming up with the place.

 

Please RSVP by 4.00 pm today so that we can make reservations accordingly.

 

 

Thanks,

Chaitanya

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Thanks,
Chaitanya

[Ganapathi Krishnan]

Beersellar sounds like the right place to celebrate. Shwetha & I will see you guys at 6:30 pm….

 

Thank you

GK

[Anil Jain]

Team, I would like to know the name of person in charge of SWAS as I would like them to be part of India Association so we can increase the membership.

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From: Chaitanya Kovvuri <ckov...@gmail.com>
To: team...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 1, 2009 10:17:52 AM

[Pravin]

Anil,

Thanigs is in charge of Swas operations. 

Krishnan will be attending todays meeting. 

Our appologies in delay in replying. 

-Pravin