First Team Cycling
I am pedalling for almost 5 years now and always wanted to form a Cycling gang 🙂
In that direction, we initiated our first Night cycling more than a year back. Still have picture perfect memories of our first group ride with Gowtham, Jaffer, Dinesh.
- Meeting at Marina at 8PM.
- Lack of cycles.
- Arun tyre puncture. He deserves it for all atrocities he done that day.
- Late dinner after 11 PM near city center.
- Very late start.
- Full road block near Malar hospital, Adyar. Just escape from Police.
- Cycling to Besant Nagar beach.
- Creepy 2 kms walk to haunted Broken bridge.
- And finally sleep in the open Beach shore. Wow <3
Then we did couple more trips along OMR, ECR, to Marina with changing members. But I am concerned that everyone looks at it only as fun activity and not very serious about it, to take big leaps. Now my concern is broken for good 🙂
10 Cycle, 10 People on OMR
Last Saturday Nov 26, 2016, 10 of us started from Saidapet towards OMR. Actually 9 of them started and I joined them late at Akkarai beach by 12.30 AM. For the first time, Girls also joined the awesomeness. Charu, Surya Priyadharshini and our Kungfu Panda Deepika 🙂
We reached Akkarai beach at 12.30 AM, spent an hour there, speaking with ghosts. Then the girls and Prem from NDRF (National Disaster Relief Force) returned completing their 40 – 50 kms journey.
I myself was tired as I didnt sleep properly for couple of nights. So I thought of returning, assuming everyone else would have been tired by this journey. But that’s not the case. All remaining 5 were determined to do Mahabs completing their 100 kms, which motivated me too.
Towards the Glory
Around 2.00 AM, we started pedalling in one of the
- most unsafe road in the world (ECR)
- at the most unsafe time (Midnight)
- in the most unsafe manner (No helmet, No reflecting jackets)
- Glad we had our breaks 😛
PS: Guys next time, we should take the OMR Route. Just 5-6 kms extra but very safe for us! No street light, very little moon light, high beam vehicles driving on opposite, glaring our eyes. We followed some simple rules to keep going, like sticking to white line.
Kovalam Stop
After an hour, we reached Kovalam and Surya dropped out because of his knee pain. A closed shop with some tables outside to sleep. More than that, he had 2 phones, Jio sim with unlimited Internet, Whatsapp, Facebook. What else he wants! Then without much break time, the legends started their pedals.
- Arun Prasad
- Gowtham Shana
- Lal Bahadur
- Sathish Kumar
- and of course, Myself 🙂
Crossed half of the well 🙂
By around 3.30 AM, we reached Mahabalipuram. HELL YEAH!!!! Around 55 kms!
There was a tea shop, just opened with around 20-30 biscuits. We had our refreshments and went to beach to take rest. But it was too cold and we all started shivering. Returned back in max half an hour. Had another round of Tea in the shop. Did some stretches to relief our body muscles.
Daunting return!
We started our return by 5.30 AM and then only people realized we still got 55 kms to pedal to reach home in one piece. But we are all very much determined to do this.
Since everyone had different works to do and the sun started shining slowly, we parted and everyone returned in their own pace. I started with my Grassroots support calls along the way. Myself and Sathish returned home by 10 AM and all others reached before us.
Welcome to the 100 kms Club
Here I take honor in welcoming the legends
- Arun Prasad
- Lal Bahadur
- Sathish Kumar
to the `100 Kms cyclers Club` 🙂 <3
Surya and Gowtham, Keep practising and you will definitely hit it next time.
Appreciate Gowtham for co-ordinating this awesome cycling trip!
My first Mahabs cycling @ http://saiy2k.blogspot.in/2012/12/mahabalipuram-cycling-trip.html
More adventures… To be continued!
