{"id":1298,"date":"2015-06-04T21:01:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T15:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2020-03-12T11:37:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T06:07:26","slug":"ooty-run-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/ooty-run-report\/","title":{"rendered":"GHR Ooty 2015 Run Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ooty has something for everybody – tea connoisseurs, trekkers, tourists and railway enthusiasts. And runners too, we guessed, when we slotted it into our Run Calendar for 2015<\/a>. This Ooty Run report describes what\u00a0went into organizing last weekend’s Go Heritage Run in Ooty.<\/p>\n

PLANNING AND ROUTE RECCES:<\/h2>\n

On initial visits to the town, we were introduced to the leadership teams at the 150-year old Lawrence School<\/a> and the Make Ooty Beautiful Project<\/a>, both of whom were happy to associate with this event. The Lawrence School agreed to add their 3.2 km. cross-country trail to our run routes and even offered to make their boarding school dorms available to our out-station runners. The Make Ooty Beautiful Project helped with planning, promotion and critically, ensuring that the run was conducted in an environment-friendly manner. With a venue sorted out, we proceeded to chart out run routes – and quickly froze on paths that traversed the Lawrence School’s cross-country trail, the very quaint Lovedale railway station, tea estates and some scenic vantage points overlooking valleys and a railway tunnel or two.<\/p>\n