{"id":3996,"date":"2016-09-30T17:38:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T12:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/?p=3996"},"modified":"2020-03-12T11:37:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T06:07:25","slug":"coorg-run-report-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goheritagerun.com\/coorg-run-report-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"GHR Coorg Run Report 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Why have one hill station on our run calendar<\/a> when we can have two?” This was the thought process behind the first edition of\u00a0Go Heritage Run – Coorg. \u00a0<\/strong>Initial planning began in May – soon after our run in Ooty<\/a>\u00a0and we made a couple of trips to\u00a0meet with the\u00a0Kodagu District Administration as well as to scope out run routes in and around Madikeri.<\/p>\n

\"Coorg<\/p>\n

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Design Collateral:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

We designed all our run collateral – posters, the running bibs, T-shirts and finisher certificates and medals – around the theme of coffee.\u00a0The T-shirt<\/a> incorporates elements of shoe prints and coffee bean against a lime green background and the vamp of the shoe in the center depicts both a bean and a leaf. The run finisher medal design incorporated the Coorg run logo – Coorg inscribed in coffee powder and interspersed with coffee beans – amidst a quirky collage of polka dots and stripes. And that’s not all because the medal doubled up as a fridge magnet – what better souvenir to take home after a weekend in Coorg!<\/p>\n

Run Weekend:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Since the Cauvery dispute was on everyone’s mind, we\u00a0provided regular\u00a0travel advisories and weather updates to everyone participating – especially those coming in from across the border in Tamil Nadu.<\/p>\n

Mercara\u00a0Fort, a 17th century heritage structure that has been renovated and extended over the years by Tipu Sultan and the British, served as a venue for Bib Distribution for Run Weekend on Saturday. The site is nestled up on a hill and overlooks\u00a0the busy commercial part of Coorg town. After collecting their bibs, runners got to walk around the fort as well as the palace and church within the\u00a0premises.<\/p>\n

Run Day turned out to be wet and rainswept. \u00a0We delayed the run starts until sunrise and then over 150\u00a0runners bounded out of\u00a0FMC College – first in the direction of Raja Seat, a favorite garden perch of the erstwhile kings of Kodagu. Today, this is a popular tourist spot and overlooks the rolling hills of Kodagu district and offers some breathtaking views. \u00a0After crossing Raja Seat, the runners retraced their path and headed into the hills. What is lovely about\u00a0Kodagu is that the weather remains pleasant, misty and cool for many hours after sunrise and so runners found the going easy – \u00a0the elevation en route notwithstanding. Runners also traversed\u00a0a reservoir\u00a0– locally called Kootu Poley – and its barrage and river downstream. One runner was so impressed by its beauty that he commented – “If Coorg is the Scotland of India,\u00a0I hereby dub this lake Loch Coorg!”. \u00a0Our able team of NCC volunteers manned the aid stations en route and some were to be found on the banks of Loch Coorg as well.<\/p>\n

\"Coorg<\/p>\n

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Our Partners:<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Our thanks to our friends\u00a0at the Kodagu District Administration<\/a>, Kodagu\u00a0Police, FM Cariappa College and the NCC for making this event a success. We hope to return bigger and better next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Runners also traversed a reservoir – locally called Kootu Poley – and its barrage and river downstream. One runner was so impressed by its beauty that he commented – “If Coorg is the Scotland of India, I hereby dub this lake Loch Coorg!”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3770,"featured_media":4003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[375,176,89,61],"tags":[263,262,392,417,398,69,68,410],"yoast_head":"\nGHR Coorg Run Report 2016 - Go Heritage Runs - Run, Fun, Travel - Run-vacations<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Runners and heritage enthusiasts from across South India ran with us in Coorg this September. 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