It’s 4am on a Saturday morning, when most of Chennai is fast asleep. The Cloka crew is already on its feet, jogging through the floors of Phoenix Mall. Among the city’s latest running clubs, Cloka brought 500 running enthusiasts together for the ‘mallathon’ inside the mall before it opened to shoppers. Up next, says Abhishek Balaji of Cloka, is a padel, pickleball and futsal tournament, all to be held simultaneously at one venue. “We have about 8,000 members,” says Abhishek. “We started a community series where we let our members host runs and come up with ideas to gamify them.” Meanwhile, at Alwarpet at 7.30am on Saturday, there’s a post-run rave that is in full swing at café Sortd. But then, this is no usual rave; instead of party wear, the 200-odd people are in shorts, tees and s

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