Run - sembawang - yishun 20km

Was rather tide up so was not able to blog about the run until today. Supposed to go down to east coast for the run in the evening on a lazy sunday afternoon but unfortunately the car was not available oh well. So drew up a hasty plan on google earth around yishun and sembawang for the run instead.

This 20km route covers the sembawang portion and also the perimeter of yishun. Mostly flat road except 2-3 location with slight elevation. Stop for drink topup at chong pang and also at a minimart around ave 6















Sembawang park connector - Folks playing with remote control boat















The scenic sembawang park connector















After the run , need some carbo loading so headed down to botak jones in ang mo kio for a taste of american food . yummy and not to mention good value for money.

First 10km - 58mins
Pace : 5.48 min/km

Second 10km - 52mins
Pace : 5.12 min/km

Distance : 20km
Timing : 1hr 50mins
Pace : 5.30min/km
Shoe : nimbus

Run - Sembawang -yishun 9.25km

Did a 9km run on my usual run route yesterday, but i guess i could have done a shorter route, seems more lethagic then usual. Tried on the new wrightsocks i bought from RL. Its a double layer sock, supposed to provide friction free and blister free comfort while wearing.

Distance : 9.26km
Timing : 45mins 38sec
Pace : 4.55min/km
Shoe : nimbus

Run LSD - yishun dam - sembawang road -17km

Distance : 17km
Timing : 90mins
Pace : 5.17 min/km
Shoe : nimbus

The wedding run - 8km -pierce reservoir

Had a 1st ever wedding run on saturday, the bride and groom to be is none other then alvo and meteor. Gosh they have been together forever ..ok ever since i joined sgrunners. So they decided to have a wedding run which is rather unique. The route is from Upper pierce reservoir to lower pierce reservoir and back (8km).

As with all wedding ceremony we decked the groom with milk tin cans dangling from his waist and "just married" sign on their back. The bride to be will be carrying a bouquet of flowers and a tiara on her head.



















Along the road for every tin can drop a game will commence. Such as answering question , doing salsa maneuver and the fiercest one.. piggy back the bride up the steep slope. As we reach the Lower pierce reservoir we had our watermelon cutting procession , drinks and not to mention the flower bouquet toss (which well kind of fell into the hands of bee, shes still deny catching it).
After which photographs of the couple was taken all over the park.















Well life is a long journey just like running and for them its a start of a brand new route!

Adirun - shenton way - marina bay 11.7km

Lately the haze in singapore has been worsening and afternoon PSI range has been topping up at more then 100pts sometime persisting on to the evening. Therefore , it wasn't healthy to do any outdoor activities, which i am sorely missing.

But thankfully there was a slight reprise in the weather situation on weds just before the adirun session, so i decided to go down suntec for the run. I counted over 20 folks are in for the run like DO, Dr and wifey, joao_li , jeremy , weichong and sister, fennel, fahmy , angeline and michiko. Special appearance are mich, ruth and bambi from VRP whom i have not seen for sometime. Unfortunately stacy, cookie and brokie came late so they did previous kallang route instead due to some mis-communication.

This week route was a longer one compare to last week. Run down the esplanade to the CBD zone along the shenton way. Then turning into marina bay area towards the food centre But instead of turning left before the food center we missed it and turn right infront of the food centre, missing out an extra maybe 500m of road. Oh well, next time we won't be that blur.

After the run, me , stacy and jeremy head down to ang mo kio for a sumptuous dinner , western food and carrot cake.. yummz..

Distance : 11.7km
Timing : 65mins
Pace : 5.33 min/km
Shoe : nimbus

Adirun - esplanade park, kallang, pebblebay apt - 9.4km

Another session of adirun this time the route is different from the previous run. Upwards towards kallang indoor stadium and turnaround just before pebblebay. Folks turned up was meteor, alvo, fahmy, cokkie, cfred, superboi, joao, stacy, brokie,angline , angelica,weichong, DO, Dr and wifey etc , not to mention some from RL run group miki ,kai and catherine haven't seen them for awhile .

As the route was new to me at least. Some confusion on where to run, intermittently we have to check with fahmy or DO where we should go. This was one of a speed run looking at the pace we were running. I would say close to competition pace and i say everyone seems to have improved. At the end of the run brokie was asked to give a free yoga session for us and i would say the stretching was quite a torture haha. Till next week!


















Waiting to cross the road..


















Kallang indoor Stadium bridge

Distance : 9.4km
Timing : 50mins
Pace : 5.19 min/km
Shoe : nimbus

Run LSD - yishun - 13.5km

Feeling guilty that i did not do any LSD last weekend ( due to haze , wedding dinner photographer). Decided to have a long run in the evening instead. Map out the route from google map around yishun then to sembawang.

The weather was quite alright with the haze gone. After warm up i proceed the run in a slow pace manner not wanting to break any "speed limit". Some how after topping up water at the stadium i decide to change the route abit , but somehow its a bad mistake underestimating the distance. Turns out the run along the sembawang airbase towards , sembawang town was very long. So long i decided midway to U turn back and get back to chong pang. Hmm I will be back more prepared!

Distance : 13.5km
Timing : 1hr 13mins
Pace : 5.24min/km

Nike runaholic

Heres the nike runaholic opening on weds. Hmm i should be standing across the stall ..

Adirun - clarke quay- riverfront-esplanade 7.8km

Skipped the last round of adirun session so anit gonna miss this time round. Check the PSI reading this time round prior to goin down. Thankfully it hovers around 52 which is moderate range.

Reached suntec at about 6.30pm. As i was walking down to the store spotted the new nike runaholic campaign seems like they are on the heels of adidas. Some sort of run lab was setup in suntec store to test runners of their gait types. DO was there to do the test so is DR , after which they are given a membership card with their gait printed on it.














Today we are back at suntec and this time round afew new faces turn up . Regulars who are there - DO, DR and wifey, cokkie, joao_li, Superboi, Fennel, Fahmy, Angeline, Brokie, Meteor, mr Ng etc .We walked all the way to esplanade park before doing some warmup. Superboi/cokkie leads the warm up. The route this time round is a fairly simple one run along the esplanade to clarke quay all the way to kim seng bridge and then back. For me i decided to do a slow and steady run and not "dash" sort of a negative split for me.














Paced with Meteor and at the same time sang some tunes from my Ipod( i hopes it helps to build up my lung capacity) Think i was going at 5min/km pace according to meteor. On the return route, At the riverview walk i decided to speed up for the last 1-2km of the route. Heart rate was maintaining at about 182 which i think was pretty good. Along that last bit i bump into roonie whos doin his ninja run haha

After the run..















free massage next to the store thanks to osim... Not to mention bottles of gatorades and banana..At that moment seems like a close door session for some celebraties at nike runaholic lab. Eunice olsen, jennette wang etc are there hmm nike marketing campaign. After changing me, cokkie and superboi went to carrefour to get gatorade powder then dinner at sinful carls Jr and some heart to heart talk.

Distance : 7.8km
Timing : 43mins 46sec
Pace : 5.35min/km

Run - Yishun pond - 3.54km

Was rather upset or maybe confused.. so decided the only way i could get some answer is by doing a run. A speedwork pace around the pond , Haze or no Haze ..

At the end of the run i felt better.. but i still get no answer..

Distance : 3.54km
Timing : 17mins 05sec
Pace : 4.52min/km