Run - sembawang rd - Simpang kiri - 9.24km

Did my own ninja run yesterday, As i have something on later in the evening. Found this run rather difficult as the weather was hazy. I had to run walk all the way due to the haze affecting my breathing. Next time have to check the haze PSI before i go running and no thanks to the folks who slash/burn the forest.

Distance : 9.26km
Timing : 45mins 47sec
Pace : 4.56min/km

Demoralising LSD run - 26km

Got a SMS from james informing me of the run on sunday as i was having a dinner at a friends wedding. Feeling guilty eating so much i decided to check out whats this demoralising run is all about. How can a run be demoralising, Not like we are living in a desert .. that would truely be demoralising . Checking the forum when i got back hmm okay only 14- 17km..

woke up 5.50am, decided to drive down to run3 place to hitch a ride from her (ok so i am lazy to check the map to changi point) . We reached changi point beach about 7am slight change in location so we moved the car to the next car park lot where we see the group. Ronnie , sotong , fennel, cfred, sassyrunne, DO, DR , Ultra, brokie, bee, james, rim,mightyjoe, doremon, kj, roentgen, joao, FBB, TKtan, acleong, realrunner and teelee.












I realised that its not 14km but double the distance. Cause its a 14km one way and another 14km back. That was quite a shocker. Thankfully i brought a packet of powergel but what i really need is gatorade power which i have not purchased yet. After briefing by sotong we proceed with the run did a short warmup run before we hit the road. Teelee , acleong, joao myself and realrun moved up to lead the run. Along the road up we bump into meteor who was "stealthy" doing her ninja run but unfortunately spotted by us. At somepoint along the middle of the long and endless changi road adjacent to the changi airport run way i lost sight of teelee and realrunner.. that is where i wonder

WHEN IS IT GONNA END?

I know i wasn't gonna get an answer.. stopping wasn't it also.. thankfully theres still something to be motivated , there are lotsa racebikers doing their training. Once in a while you see someone who motivates you.

Ahh the sight of beach at last once we hit the national sailing centre got a sip and refill of water and decided that i shld not be attempting to run further down. Mightyjoe and cfred think likewise too so we decided to u-turn from there. At this point we saw DR, run3 trudging on to the east coast lagoon. As we were returning back we saw tekko with his right leg in crutches sitting at the shelter next to the Safra clubhouse. He gamely served us refreshing 100+ no time to chitchat much we carried on our run.

Same old stretch back. Mind wondering.. pondering along the way. Stopping at 2 or 3 times along the changi road to walk. Leg feeling cramp probably lack of salt content in my bottle. The sun was up but shade of the tree kept it in check along the way chatted with FBB who i believe got lost on one of the turns. When we hit the first carpark we bump into mythos and jennifery moving off for their bike ride. DO , cfred made some conversation with them. For me i felt stomach cramp when into the toilet to get some water to relieve it .

After which it was a run walk all the way back to the end point. After everyone is back we had 100+ , barley drink, jelly (thanks to roetgen, jamesoh, brokie, doreamon) and exchange alot of chatter. Warmed down before hitting the showers at the beach. Heard about the famous beef kway teow noodle at changi village food center. And thats where we went...













Beef ball kway teow












Mixed beef kway teow
















The consumers

So me the day has not ended after sending joao and rim back. I went to an dance school open house. before heading for dinner at suntec, then to supper.... what a super long day tiring and definately demoralising day haha..

Swim - 20laps

Had 20 laps at the safra pool lastnite with jon who just got released from reservist for the weekend. Hmm all that swim made me hungry and yah went for supper after that.. mutton soup..burp

Adidas running - fort canning - clarke quay -11km

Zoomed in in grey


















Another adirun on a wednesday evening. IMD drop by for his run at the same time conducted a short warmup session with us. Some new faces and regular ones.

We took the same route as before with slight changes at fortcanning instead of 2 rounds we going for 3 rounds. Somehow after the the fortcanning the group was split into 3 groups. superboi drop in on the run at rivervalley road and decide to do a super sprint. like 4.4 mins/km. We made it to esplanade and notice that 3 gals aren't in the group. Seems like they decided not to go up fort canning and did their own little run. When we return to base we found them already there cooled down and all.

Till the next run...

Run - yishun pond 3.9km

Yesterday wanted to do a long run in the evening but had to cut short my run due to this















Rain yah .. sucks

Distance : 3.9km
Timing : 18mins 52sec
Pace : 4.6min/km

Ipod change

Out goes the old in come the new! New ipod nano 4gb!

Adidas running - fort canning - clarke quay -10km

Area shaded zoomed in














Adidas running today was held at cathay this time round , as the suntec area has been closed up for the IMF meeting . So i drop by the adidas store at about 6.20 , seeing that i am early i grab a bite of my fav ben & jerry new york chocolate fudge ice cream to desire.

The rest start to stream in about 6.45 . Cfred, Alvo, Martin, Peter, Anthony, David, Srini, Ajit, Simon, Benny, Joao, Jeremy,Simon, Jancy, Stacy, Angeline, Charmane, Delphine, Susan, Beverly, jeremy. We went outside cathay for our warm up and briefing on the route : from fort canning to clark quay , to boat quay and then to esplanade and back to cathay (roughly about 10km). Fahmy hinted me that adidas is coming out a new dance apparel , which i am kinda interested in and also just in store the new supernova series of shoe and apparel. Gotta check that out too.

I was nominated by DO to lead the run up fort canning, first time for me but i think i can handle that as i have run up there a couple of time with the running lab group. The pace well was rather fast at the beginning maybe its due to stacy / jeremy and joao li pushing me hard. A little too fast the rest was biting the dust behind.

After 2 rounds around fort canning. We headed to clarke quay where DO to take the lead but he say i can handle it . So off i go again.. Some how after esplanade the group was divided in to 3 groups and they seems to be running back in different direction. i guess its partly due to the traffic light hold up.



















This time round we had 100plus instead of gatorade but its okay, same thing bananas from DOE not del monte like the last run. So after warm down and chit chat the rest went up to grab their bag check out the new stuff, and wash up. For me i did not join jeremy and gang for dinner..salsa session for me !

Run - yishun pond 3.9km

Put on my new nimbus and did a short fartlek session around the yishun pond. Was in such a haste i fogot to put on my watch and HRM .. must be the excitment of testing out the shoe.

First impression on the nimbus is pretty springy. toe to foot transistion was alright. A tad heavy but because its such a short distance not sure how it might feel on a longer distance run.

Later in the evening i drop by CBD run for a meet and greet session seems like a lot of new runners there. Bala volunteered to help me on the freestyle swim strokes and give me some advice and if needed go down to clementi pool on monday for correction. Well i guess i will...

Weekend update 2 - BG - bt timah 6 ave - orchard 12km

Good evening to all, Todays news will cover the BG run held this morning at 7.10am ( a big thanks for jamesoh for the transport). Attendees for this ice cream favor run includes bee, bikerchic, tiwazz, kops, TLR, run3 , ronnie, bala, stazla, alvo , meteor, tantk, kj, roentgen , doremon red, cyber, babumouse, charlotte, joao_li, alecchua, rim etc leading the run is reno, after briefting on the route.

We moved out along bt timah road.. pace was rather fast.. especially the front group.. an abrupt stop was notice it seems the group in front decided to do an impromptu hill run up the 3rd ave the rest watch on. After which we proceed down to 6th ave which cuts thru upslope to holland ave, which i had i had stayed for over 10 years of my life. At orchard rd i decided to turn into nassim rd while the rest continued towards istana for the 17km route. For me yesterday and today run was gd enough.

First group to come back was tiwazz 10km gang( bee , TLR). Roonz and philips drop in for breakfast and ice cream which i did not attend. Run3 brought down 2 flask of bailey for us to quench thirst. After shower we left for the usual food haven for makan. Before me, joao_li hitch a ride back on jamesoh's speeding mobile..
























And in other news here is my new mate - the Asic Nimbus VII












Purchased at a good price of 80 bucks at the asic warehouse sale its a great buy. And i have philips to thank for, helping me buy it and bringing it down for me during the run.

Testing of the shoe will take place sometime next week!

dist : 12km
Time :1hr 06mins
Pace : 5.5 min/km

Weekend update 1 - Sengkang -Sembawang -yishun run 12km

Nope i did not start running from sengkang but rather started my run from yishun. Woke up at 7am sms taz his location. Seems like they will reach simpang kiri park connector at 8pm or so.. So grab my gear and start off my run around 730. Got another SMS from taz seems like the sgrunners grp wil reach at 8.20am..
So i went to a near by coffeeshop and have a drink of 100plus. While watching the road for their arrival.

Running along with taz was loke, maggie, roentgen, kj, junie, daisaki , bee and teelee . Taz decided to go straight to the beach path. I think i heard "groaning" sound from some of them, maybe its the nightmare from realrun. But as i stress out the sand is much more stiffer then those sand at sentosa.













































Once we hit sembawang park. We had a toilet break, and to our surprise allan wu was there filming a tv series. Seems like 2 policeman are trying to capture him in the scene..i joke to the rest telling the gals i can help them snap picture for them.









See i promise you allan wu photo!














At this juncture we see Kj , junie, teelee and bee taking the bus back to khatib mrt station.















Bid farewell to sembawang park. We trudge on back to yishun before heading to khatib mrt me and loke took a short cut while the other took a longer route. We gather with the others who arrived by mrt (which i think they transfer bus to mrt). Had breakfast nearby , before the rest has to rush off to setup for the "sport injury" seminar. Which i was unable to attend because i realise the car is not available.

Tomorrow is round 2 of run at BG.

Distance : 11.6km
Timing : 60mins
Pace : 6min/km

Adirunner's first run - suntec - fortcanning - orchard rd 13km

After finishing work i got down to Adidas store at suntec for the start of run at 6.30 . First person i saw was DO he was looking for the gents.. i can see his urgency.. In the store some of the ladies are there already like brokie, meteor. Soon the rest start to trickle in like DR and wifey, babumouse, joao_li, cookie, super boi , cfred , newcommer sazla and a few others.





























As anglica was late Fahmy our run coorinator decide to lead us out first for warm up behind suntec. Dexter his other asistant stayed behind and wait for a colleague of his and angelica.















We started the run at about 7.20pm, from suntec we ran up to fort-canning hill, before hitting river valley road and then along the back water of orchard road to napier road. before going straight down orchard road to suntec.















Super boi was our photographer of the night.. running ahead and snappin pic for us. New comer sazla was a "pretty" strong runner forging ahead with the lead group. At half way point returning route the other Angelica , dexter and angeline rendevous with us.



















Superboi taking his drink and banana

At the end of the run we were treated with bananas and gatorade at the warm down area compliment of adidas. After which we went up to the private shower room to wash up while dexter and babumouse jumped into the pool for some laps (ermm did u guys bathed before jumping in?) . Had some food at mcdonald before we parted seperate ways.















Parting shot before store close

See you guys next week at cathay adidas!

Distance : 13.1km
Timing : 1hr 5omins
Pace : 8min/km

Swim - 14 laps safra pool

Before work i squeeze sometime to hit the safra pool again for about 14 laps. Tried 1 laps using frontcrawl but i guess i failed miserably. Any coach who can teach me?

Oh btw Casio just launched a new GPS running watch Not sure the price but looks cool. Get one for me for my bday.. pleasez...pretty pleasez










World’s smallest and lightest GPS to display real-time run data.

Swim - 40 Laps.. a first!

Will dedicate this week , a swim training week. And today is the first of the session , and this is the first time i completed 40 laps in safra pool..

LSD - Yishun dam - senkang compass pt 16.22km

Yes i agree i have been slacking lately, but i would also say that the weather for the past 2 days has not been good with slight monsoon. Anyway to make up for the lost mileage , decided to do a LSD this morning using the route taz pointed out from his blog.

Woke up 6am ,tried contacting jon but as usual he overslept.So i started moving out from my place about 645am reached the yishun stadium picked ws up and drove down to the start point at yishun dam. From there we changed into our gear and proceed down the dam to the seletar airport, thru the small track road into jalan kayu. Took a short break as ws need to get some mineral water. From there we proceed on to the small road leading to the LRT at sengkang (fernvale station sw4). From there run down to the canal and cross the bridge into sengkang town central. Had a break at the 7-11 store inside compass point shopping mall.















View from the dam














Small track road along the expressway















Prata shop at jalan kayu















off topic here.. nice jeep!















This way to the LRT station from jalan kayu
















Path to fernvale LRT from jalan kayu..















Compass point.. breaktime















This makeshift fishing point my fav place to warmdown

After about 10 mins break we carry on back to the dam. small incident thou.. while on the way back kinda got lost inside the seletar airport. Lotsa old colonial bungalows but that was just momentarily.

For our warm down i looked for the secret fishing pier at the dam after which we head down to yishun stadium for shower and breakfast at mcd .. yummy

Distance : 16.22km
Timing : about 1hr 45mins