Coimbatore Backyard Ultra 2.0 Cover a distance of 6.7k every hour, with no external help on the course. Support and crew are allowed before the flag off at each hour. Venue - Kumaraguru College of Technology. A beautiful campus. More than half the course had trees. It is a sweet distance for a regular exercise for a day. So much so that a bunch of my friends, athlete or not, do this in a round robin, one person a day. Thanks to the initiatives of my classmate, Balakrishnan, my crew in the earlier backyard ultra. The actual race has no end. It is played in a " Hunger Game " format. We don't kill each other. But we wait till everyone else dies. The last person still on the course is the winner. Everyone else is a DNF (Did Not Finish). I haven't trained for this race at all. I ran a 20km easy pace exactly 10 days before the race. My fitness primarily comes from my recreational badminton games. 1 hour of singles game. Twice a week. Another 2 hours of doubles game on som...
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