Sri Chinmoy Tan Team Relays

The Pillars of Wisdom on the Tan Track give this event its proper runner’s feel: a start point at a well-known runners’ landmark, then laps of the iconic Tan Track around the Botanic Gardens. The Sri Chinmoy Tan Team Relays is part team puzzle, part individual race, with a friendly local-club mood rather than a large-scale production. Expect steady rhythm more than surprise: lap the Tan, come back through the transition zone, and keep the baton moving. Teams bring friends, colleagues, classmates, gym buddies or family. The requirement that the baton must be exchanged every lap, and each runner has to take at least two laps, adds a tactical element as much as a physical one. Drink stations, chip timing on the baton, and that “morning of running in the heart of the city” description pretty much tell you the shape of it.