Run - Botanical garden - orchard rd - 11.5km

Once a month we have the BG run aka botanical garden run. Met up with roonz, SV early in the morning about 6.30am to hitch a ride down with james. Seems like he was caught in something and arrived like 6.50am instead. When we reached SMU, we missed the first inaugural briefing conducted by RSM brokie at the basketball court. But we were greeted by Renoh, mwengrof , Ronnie, JT, Doraemon_red , Cazz , ronnie, Charmane3, Bikerchic, Superboy, cfred84, tiwazz, Angelica-Wonders, daisiki , gems, DO, DreamRunner, Teelee , Cokiee, Roonz , melissa, ultraman, Meteor and Alvo.

We started straight after we reached, and the run started at about 7.20am. headed into botanical garden. For me its a unfamiliar ground having only run inside the 2nd time. Passed by the new NUS law faculty which is still under construction. the straight to the swan pond. And a request by jeremy we head down to the evolution garden for a sip of water. When we exited from BG its around 4-5km according to footpod.

From there we headed up to minden rd , ripley rd, harding rd and to tanglin road. We had a break at the shell station there before RSM lead us into nassim road which was rather quiet.
Once we reach the entrance back to BG. We were given option to run another loop around cluny rd, tanglin road and nassim road again which should give another 2-3km or just head straight back to SMU to wait for the rest. Was with doremon-red, cfred, charmane3 and we voted to go straight to SMU 11.5km was enough for the day. On the way back to SMU we bump into DO who lost the rest inside BG, he ran around the area 3 times from what he said. Miss the front group and also the back group. After we gave direction on where he can catch the rest doing the extra 2-3km he ran off in a puff.

It was when everyone got back that we got to know that roonz had a fall and her knee is all bloodied. She say its alright nothing to be worried about. We were later served by brokie with her homemade barley drink and some cold sliced apple (thanks brokie) after that the group went over to food haven for some carbo loading, Seal made a surprise appearance to pass a inspirational book to DR. After lunch i hitch a ride back home on james mobile.

Distance : 11.5km
Timing : 69mins 14s
Pace : 6 mins/km