Auroville '12

Reporting almost real-time, just a couple of years after the event, from Auroville 2012. Two athletes, one race, one goal - to finish the race in a finite time period without breaking anything. As usual Don and I set out taking a huge lead in the part of the race where we are world-class - the carbloading, inside Auroville itself while collecting the bib, where the poor quality of food is only matched by the quality of service.

 We check in at the seedy lodge I'd booked and were delighted to land on a highly original channel logo and watched a horrible unknown tam movie, probably produced by the lodge itself, just for the logo.





Next step - dinner at Hotel du Parc. Looked like a daunting task but nothing we couldn't wash down with a couple of beers. You heard right, we didn't go with conventional wisdom on that one.

 The race itself was pretty uneventful. We both got done in the 2:20s and were off to carb reload at Adyar Anand Bhavan.


(PS : I think I've spent more time managing these jumping pictures in writing this post than in training for the half-marathon. Damn you blogspot!)