Lessons from Chennai Marathon 2008.
It was a tension free weekend for Students, Corporates, Sports personalities, Daily joggers, Crowd creators, Crowd watchers.People started assembling from 6 AM, at about 8 am the head count was around 60000 approximately (my assumption of taking 20000 people every 1 km. The participants were gathered from island ground till pallavan house.
As usual I found difficult to find my coordinator from Lok Paritran, the only political party participated in the event. The mobile network was jam, it was a bit difficult to get my group. 7 km event was delayed by 40 minutes …