A few minutes before the sun rose on the day of Bisu Parba, the festival in Tulunadu to mark the first day of Souramana Ugadi, on April 14, around 50 runners assembled behind Bharat Mall in Mangaluru. After about 10 minutes of warm-up, the runners started their regular 5K and 10K “Sunday run” at 5.50 a.m.
They ran the initial 2.5 k.m. together, which covered a major part of the route that Prime Minister Narendra Modi took later in the day as part of his roadshow in the run-up to the second phase of polling to Lok Sabha elections on April 26. The 5k runners took a u-turn at the Babasaheb Ambedkar (Jyothi) Circle to return to the start point. The 10k runners continued to cover Bendoorwell, St. Agnes College, Nantoor, KPT, Kuntikana and reach the start point by 7.15 a.m.
