Dashers run log

New shoe adidas boston

2009-08-17T22:13:00.002+08:00

Time to retire my supernova and welcome in the adidas boston LT . got it from a adidas outlet shop. at 86 bucks!

Nike Running Clubs

2008-07-16T18:59:00.004+08:00

well here something about Nike running club in the states.. Happen to been to 2 states chicago and New york, both have well oiled season running groups

The first one was in New york the nike town store is at the back of trump tower. And why is it call Nike town? well because its a sprawling 4 stories high store pack with all the latest Nike gear. The running club at that particular store, have a run every morning 9am from the store to around the central park, depending on how far you want to run theres a small map too.

The running club information counter is pack with interesting running guide books on where to have ur power juice and post run meals compiled by zagat. Unfortunate for me i did not join the run but i happened to be there to snap afew photos.. just look at the post run snacks...massive!

the next one is in Chicago, similar to the one in NY. This branch is along the magnificient mile or the shopping street. its not as large as the one in NY about 2 floors but well stocked. A few days before i got to Chicago i lost my Nike plus sensor luckily they sell it there at about 19 bucks. which was a good thing coz i dun think i find that in singapore.

I managed to join in for the run this time round. The store have a run every thurs at evening 6.30pm. the route as indicated in the map is along the lake front. On entering the store everone is suppose to register their name and contact. Then deposit the bags with the counter staff. I was also briefed to get the free nike 10k human race run t-shirt cool...There was a pre run briefing. There was some mentioning of the upcoming chicago marathon and training schedule. after which we all head out for the run in groups .. depending on ur pace, you can join the different pacer groups.. i joined the 9mins/mile group.

stretching was done outside the store before long we headed down to the lakefront. run was great sunny and breezy weather. Had chats with some of the guys in the run it was interesting . U turn was at the boat house, got some water point there. before heading back.

We were served with mineral water, bagels and banana.. yummy.. unfortunately i had no appetite but overall it was a great run would do it again if i go back to the states!

Running in new york

2008-07-14T22:23:00.004+08:00

Guess this post is a little overdue as i was away in the states for my work and vacation. I will recount some of the runs i have in new york.

Due to the pack visitation schedule i was only able to make 1 run in New york Central park. Central park famed for some of the setting of hollywood movie is actually quite huge. dotted with lakes and reservoir. Lotsa ang mo hang out here to suntan and do sports .

Was the 2nd last day of my stay, i made the effort to wake up early and head out for the run. crossing 3 blocks to central park. Temperature was a hot 30 degrees , weather service announce that heatwave will be in new york. But i still went ahead with the run. The roads inside central park is closed for joggers during the morning. So its rather safe to run and cycle and just about any activity. But take note that cyclist will be on the left side of the road. so stay on the right! i was reminded that by a friendly runner.

water point are located everywhere in the park so its alright not to bring any hydration equipment with you. and when you are lost.. maps and location board can be found.

Some of the interesting sights you can find in the park is this reservoir! breathtaking

Facility around central park includes tennis courts , baseball ground, skating rink, swimming pool and boat house.

a complete loop around central park is about 9km, which took me amost an hour to finish running. The heat was so hot almost melted, after the run i headed straight for the juice store to get my energy back.

But the experience having a jog there is something i will remember always

Rain on my parade..

2008-06-15T21:31:00.003+08:00

yup my first oversea run in new york was officially dashed.. it rained on the day of the race. Glance at the window it was drizzling i thought i could just go for it hey its just a drizzle. but once i step out of the apartment my mind changed.. the air was cold and the rain was freezing like ice...dang.. there goes my race..

1st overseas road race

2008-06-01T23:24:00.002+08:00

Well in about 4 hrs i will be boarding my flight to new york for the NYRR 50th anniversary race. Got myself a pair of adidas response 14 trail shoe . Hopefully it will make light work on the run!

Run - 13km Labrador park- southern ridge park

2008-05-12T12:18:00.007+08:00

News of the new southern ridge park with the 2 bridges linking them , makes it a must to go down and check it out !

So on sunday the day after the launch went down with my friend for a jog dump our bags at bukit merah . A short warm up and off we go ! first stop is labrador park , yes this is my first time to labrador park . And it is really interesting with all the mockup arti canon and machine gun bunkers. not to mention light house and the fame dragon tooth gate that use to be found there.
Next we head down to alexandra road for the start of the route up telok blangah hill.

Metal grilled bridged path brings us up to the hill but rather slippery if after rain. So we were cautious on the ascend, crowds of walkers and photographers swamp the path. Was nice to be close to nature and at times i stop my ipod to listen to the nature sound.
The wave bridge connecting telok blangah hill and mount faber hill is the most inspiring one not just the length or height but the design. The interior of the bridge is equally beautiful.. seamless smooth curves and not a single sharp edge insight. Seems like its worth a place in MoMa musuem of design.

Forgot to mention about the view, Simply stunning! you can see the CBD from here.
From mount faber we make the journey down along the way we saw some cyclist from the national team? Cause their shirt has singapore printed over them. After the run we headed down to safra club for some 20 laps at the pool thats where we saw DO , ultra and Anthony doing their warmdown after a run to marina.

My first NUS Biathlon 2008

2008-03-20T12:45:00.000+08:00

My first biathlon and well not that bad since i am doing the sprint. water currents was strong and sea bug were more then sentosa lagoon which we train. (next time train at east coast haha). Seems to be swimming into the float line , not to mention drinking a few gulps of seawater due to the choppy water. Turn point at the bouy is chaos almost cannot swim.

Transition i was doing it slowly.. so slow roonz, sassyrunner shouted at me . oh well run part at the beginning , i was rather slow abit hard to breath. but towards the second half of the 5km , regained my composure and made a good dash to the end point. I think the timing was about 43mins. Not so sure as i did not timed it but just refer from the board.

2008-01-23T21:50:00.000+08:00

Made the decision to do the singapore biathlon this year.. Unfortunately it didn't go my way as I have reservist during that period. Instead I opt to go for the NUS biathlon instead.

date to mark down.. 19th feb. Weekend sentosa brick

2008-01-16T08:20:00.000+08:00

With work taking up the mid weeks my only free time for this month will be on monday. Which now is devoted to swimming at bishan pool.

The turn out today is quite good . Me staz , cfred and unexpected guest like jodan and roonz who was recently featured in sgrunners.com.

Well this session is more like tech training and slap in between some chatting and kpoing on alex swim class.. Did not see wildcat but lala , tare panda are there.

Dinner was at bishan coffeeshop next to terminal as usual.

2008-01-08T18:47:00.000+08:00

Updates
a short run on sunday around spimpang kiri park connector. Of about 8.5km distance.

monday about 34laps at the pool with stacy . Before meeting up with alex my ex swim instructor . Great to meet up with him , his shoulder has recovered and look fit as usual. The rest of the students well were familiar too.. Like wildcat and tarepanda. While the rest are from trifam .

2008-01-04T20:31:00.000+08:00

First adirun for the year.. our group this time round is fahmy, yiyang ,aerosolcan , adi and his friend. Well adi suggested we go for an interval run at the track next to the kallang stadium. We agreed to the plan . I was curious how th run was conducted.

The interval was 5 sets of 400m for starters. Trying to maintain a 1.40 per interval followed by a slow pace jog ard the track. At the last loop. Was rather tired and feet was quite wobbly but at least it feels good after such a long break.

total mileage for the day about 8km.

SCSM 2007

2007-12-04T09:35:00.001+08:00

This year SCSM i have only one thing on my mine is that to complete it in 4.hr if possible but the grand plan doesn't always go as expected. A few factor attribute to my results.. lack of stretching before the run and possibly starting off too fast. Heres a breakdown on the event

Day before SCSM
Met up with alvo meteor and cfred for carbo loading at hip cafe at cineleisure. I consumed a surf and turf dish but i guess its not enough complex carbo in it. Oh well.. got to bed like at 10pm thankfully i managed to sleep without having to toss and turn on bed for hours.

SCSM day
Got up at 4am , had bread , banana and some isotonic drink before heading out to meet jamesoh for a ride down to esplanade. While waiting for the ride, SV passed me his bib cause he is not feeling well and ask me to return it.

510am - Jamesoh parked his car at marina square and i dashed out to the adidas tent to put my bags there (adirun members have its privileges ). With only 5 mins left i made a dash to the startpoint. Not much of a warmup the starting horn fired up, And off we go..

At the race
My pace was pretty consistent thru out the first 20km , At marina south i bump into the pacer team cfred and babu.. they ask me to go faster so i went a little faster (man that was a big mistake) . There are funny pple with great sense of humor. like this old man who is dressed up as a Japanese fisherman and some pple you admire whose tag wrote that he is 71 yr old and still going strong.

At esplanade the crowd was cheering at us and that was encouraging , one in the audience was meteor .. i signal her alvo was slightly behind me. Around fort rd i managed to see the pack of 6 kenya running down and we gave cheers and claps. They were like goin 2-3.o pace. crazy man.
This year i saw about 4-5 bands playing along the side of the road which was good but some of the song doesn't sound that cheery thou. As usual the champagne drinking elites were sitting on foldable chair and table upgraded from picnic mat last year ..watching the runner pass by . Damn them.

After the U-turn point about 32 km mark the cramps started to set in. First on my calf then my thigh i have to stop every few metre to stretch and this goes on till the end . Quite a struggle which was definitely worst then my last year run. At the esplanade , a tap on my back and when i turned around its michelle she was still going very strong damn i am getting weak. tried to pace with her but my cramps kicked in. Arghh and i had to do a quick walk until the padang . Thats where i tried to run in to the finish line but still i cant.. some way to end the marathon in pain and agony . At least it was memorable. Time was 4hr 31mins.

Post SCSM
As i was catching my breath i bump into fahmy and also michelle whom already collected the medal and tshirt. Fahmy on the other hand was well not so happy with his run due to the cramps also. After a collecting my bag at the tent met up with the sgrunners for a phototaking session then its off to suntec for bath and also some cooling down at the pool . Before having a chop chop lunch with alvo and meteor.

Conclusion
Congrats to everyone who have complete the grueling run and to those who are doing it the first time and not to mention those who best their previous year record. As for me i am comtemplating on stopping marathon distance running. I guess any distance more then 30km is too hard on my legs due to the cramp.

Tapering week..

2007-11-28T22:35:00.000+08:00

Tapering week has always been difficult for me . Sacrificing the joy of running for the final dash which is the end of this week.

after the months of training and it will all end in that 4hr of run this sunday. Oh well.. This week after back from bangkok , head out straight for a short 4km run around the yishun pond on monday and not to mention adirun tonight at suntec. The newly renovated shop is open at last . I was joined by fahmy , cfred , alvo and michiko.

It will be michiko last run with us cause she will be moving to phuket. The run was a short and easy 6.5km . At the end we took a last photo before parting our way.

Adirun - marina esplanade - kallang stadium - tanjong rhu 9.8km

2007-11-22T09:43:00.000+08:00

Tappering time !

Distance : 9.84km
Timing : 55min 32 sec
Pace : 5.38min/km
shoe 218.00km

Run - Sembawang - yishun 13km

2007-11-19T21:00:00.000+08:00

After the rain, the air is always so fresh . Miss out opportunity to run during the weekend . Besides a 30lap swim at YCK with staz on friday. The feel for this run was very comfortable no pain or tiredness , just like an energizer bunny.

Tapering has already began and 13km was good enough for me ... for now.

Distance : 12.81km
Timing : 68min 30 sec
Pace : 5.20min/km
shoe 228.20km

Adirun - clarke quay- fort canning 8.5km

2007-11-16T01:47:00.000+08:00

After a 2 weeks break . I went back to adirun , already before hand i know that most of them due to work , study commitment arent able to go down. Still decided to have a short run. Surprise to see that the adidas shop is closed for renovation (will be opened on 19th) but thankfully fahmy was around we dump our back at the recreation locker on the 4th floor before goin for our run.

The route this week was to fort canning- clark quay - kimseng and back to the tan kim seng fountain. about 8.52km in total.

Distance : 8.52km
Timing : 44min 17 sec
Pace : 5.11min/km
shoe 215.39km

LSD run - yio chu kang - seletar airport 17km

2007-11-11T23:43:00.000+08:00

Fantastic weather for a LSD today. Unfortunately can't say the same for my stamina today. I will have to go on a strict no alcohol diet from now till marathon D day.

Took afew stoppage almost at every bus stop along the train track arghh!! But things got better as i hit the seletar airport. I can see quite a few runners there some gave me the thumbs up as i ran pass them. Overall its still a very pleasant run ..

Distance : 17.06km
Timing : 1hr 36min
Pace : 5.38min/km

Run - Yishun Dam 8.09km

2007-11-09T14:03:00.000+08:00

Singapore is a small country and bumping into friends at the most secluded places is not uncommon.

was doing a short 8km run around my area yesterday . You turn point around the yishun dam I bump into an old colleague of mine with his family. We had a short catchup chat before making my way back.

This weekend I am thinking of doing perhaps a 20km run..not so sure yet.

Distance : 8.05km
Timing :41mins 27sec
Pace : 5.08min/km

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Tuesday had a swim session (20laps)with cfred and sassyrunner at the jln besar. Quite a nice swim as the only folks around are old folks.. But occasionally some FT from mainland would just jump into the pool ..really dangerous and annoying.

Had the people parks yong tau fu near by. Not at peoples park but at jln besar I believe they moved over from there. Nice stuff.. die die Must try

LSD run - Eastcoast 28km

2007-11-04T21:19:00.000+08:00

LSD has always been said to be long and agonizing run . And the same can be said to this one especially when you are doing this alone.

Came down to east coast at 4pm to do my lsd planned a 30km route from BFD from end to end till the perimeter road next to changi runway. Along the route I bump into familiar faces like tekko ( running back home !) and other friends. East coast on a sunday afternoon is bustling with activities not like on a morning. I can see groups having bbq .. Windsurfer and the drawing the most crowd is the new sport kiteboarding.

At perimeter road, I tried the new park connector but unfortunately there's no toilet there to top up my bottle NP board do think about that.

Ok enough of talking time to get a good rest ..

Distance : 28km
Timing : 2hr 30min
Pace : 5.35min/km
shoe 189.81km

Fartlek - yishun pond 3.65km

2007-11-01T23:41:00.000+08:00

Did about 5 fartlek around the pond today. Quite possible my fastest around this route.
A day before i did 15 laps on the pool at suntec. Lets see if the weather holds out for an LSD this week .. finger cross

Distance : 3.65km
Timing : 17mins 25sec
Pace : 4.46min/km

Run - Sembawang -yishun 8.98km

2007-10-31T00:58:00.000+08:00

Getting breathless must be due to the long gap from the last run. Kinda stop a few time to take photos.

The park connector

The pier at the end of the park Connector

Running - kinda like this photo

Uphill climb

A runner running into a dumping ground.. will explore that next time

Road/path and train track

Distance : 8.94km
Timing : 46mins 41sec
Pace : 5.11min/km
shoe 161.81km

RL run - kallang river 9.46km

2007-10-26T13:10:00.000+08:00

Been quite a long while since i been to RL run. The first thing that came into my mind is the size of the group of about 30 . We got the usual eddie, IMD, tekko, molly, michelle, benny, cyber, trencen and alot of new faces.

Interestingly the group seems to be running very fast . Hard time keeping up with the rest of the chiong team. End up with a super dupper fast timing! Not sure if its PB thou.

Distance : 9.42km
Timing : 48mins 06sec
Pace : 5.06min/km
shoe 152.97km

Swim - 30laps

2007-10-24T17:29:00.000+08:00

Meet up with cfred for a swim yesterday at the jalan besar pool near lavender. Decided its time to give a non-stop 30laps swim a shot.

Not to speedup did a rather slow 1.5mins per lap. Managed to complete the swim in about 45mins. At the end of the swim I felt a sense of accomplishment.

Well guess I will slack till thurs...

In another news , i went for a 14 days free trial at True fitness as usual i had to go thru a barrage of sales talk and a interesting test of my body fat and muscle measurement using some sort of electrical current passing thru my body.

I was in the normal range and he even ask if i got 6 packs..

LSD run - yishun sembawang - 20km

2007-10-22T00:00:00.000+08:00

Another weekend another long boring LSD run. Perhaps i am just going through the motion, morning person i am not so really going running at god forsaken timing with the gang is really tough.

Anyway i recycled this route from last year preparation for stan chart. Tried out my belkin sport command for the first time. As my ipod plus is under servicing (receiver was not working). So that gave me the opportunity to test this out. Well for one its not as responsive as i want it to be. I need at least 2 click to forward , reverse or play before it reacts. Maybe it could be the range problem.

Distance : 20km
Timing : 1hr 49mins 32sec
Pace : 5.45min/km
shoe 143.55km

adirun - tanjong rhu - esplanade - 11km

2007-10-18T10:15:00.000+08:00

Distance : 11km
Timing : 1hr 03mins 22sec
Pace : 5.45min/km

Run - Sembawang -yishun 10.8km

2007-10-13T12:40:00.000+08:00

Someone once said 'he whom himself control others is great but he who mastering himself reign supremacy'.. So far I am able to control my limits but still far from my reaching my capabilities..

Recently my 10km pace has been peaking one after another. Let's hope it keeps up or sustain till the marathon.

As for todays run, did a 9km route just after the rain had ended in the evening. Lotsa changes at sembawang park where the ex bus depot and coffeeshop that once stood , has now been demolished and flatten. A reminder that nothing last forever. For the rest of the run I tried to keep a steady pace as fast as I could.

at the end of the run.. yes! another pace record..

Adirun - Esplanade - kimseng bridge

2007-10-11T12:39:00.000+08:00

The day has been rather gloomy with slight drizzle, was contemplating about going down to adirun. But turns out by 5pm the rain had stopped. So I decided to pop by for the run..which I badly need.

Met the rest as usual.. Cfred fahmy, michiko and martin. We had a short debate on which road to run. Finally agreed on doing a riverside run except running on a reverse way.

it started out slow but by the end we ended up sprinting just before clark quay. Great needed that extra punch in speed. Everyone did very well and managed to keep up pace , i am sure most have no problem with the upcoming marathon.

Distance : 8.09km
Timing : 1hr 42mins 37sec
Pace : 5.15min/km
shoe 123.55km

trophy from nikeplus.com

2007-10-09T11:47:00.000+08:00

Though i like to share with you guys.. something i achieved in nikeplus website

LSD run - yio chu kang - seletar airport 18.93km

2007-10-07T17:50:00.000+08:00

Today did a LSD run with the sgrunners on the northern route which is at yishun. The run was organised by james , was to be a 20km route covering lower seletar reservoir , yio chu kang road, jln kayu and back to yishun via the seletar airport.

As usual I woke up earlier at 6am and ran down to stadium to meet them up. First time meeting them includes. Jodan , kk, sealboon , hopflng. The weather was windy and cloudy, perfect for a LSD. Was leading the run and sealboon me and kk manage to keep pace with me at abt 6min/pace. James was behind as sweeper.

we had our water breaks at jln kayu before moving off again. At about some way along the seletar dam jodan decided to walk instead.

We ended our run at abt 930am before heading down to khatib foodcenter for breakfast.

Distance : 18.93km
Timing : 1hr 45mins 42sec
Pace : 5.34min/km
shoe 115.55km

adirun - Kallang 8.95km

2007-10-04T12:10:00.000+08:00

Distance : 8.95km
Timing : 49mins 55sec
Pace : 5.35min/km

Run - Sembawang -yishun 6.44km

2007-10-01T21:43:00.000+08:00

A short run on my Mizuno turns out rather tough i think the cushioning has worn off. Feeling the hard surface instead of the feathery touch done on my sole. Ok its time to junk it.. On the way back bump into my camp mate and chatted alittle on work and next years final incamp.

Gosh how time flies

Distance : 6.44km
Timing : 31mins 19sec
Pace : 4.51min/km

LSD run - eastcoast 16.9km

2007-09-30T20:39:00.000+08:00

"What demoralising run again? I think i will give it a miss" thats what i replied to alvo. It was almost 1 year ago when we did that run. Well frankly speaking i don't think i could last the whole way without water stop. I tend to perspire alot so i rather not take the risk.
Instead i did a run with michelle at east coast instead at least i don't have to worry about water stops. Started my run about 9.20am at the hawker center, before doing a U-turn around the old big splash. Thats when i rendevous with her at the hawker center. By then i was dehydrated and tired ( think its the 24 laps at the pool i did before that day). So it was a stop and go for me, thou i try to struggle to keep up and chat along the way. Oh well , i should rest a day before i do a LSD.

When i reached back to the hawker center, she carried on to mcd while for me i decided to change and washed up for lunch. But i guess the message was not carried to her, plus she did not carry her handphone. I had to have my lunch in the end on my own after receiving her that she has returned home after not finding me at the hawker center.

Well i attribute all this bad luck..

because i picked locker 13 to put my stuff in.....

Distance : 16.9km
Timing : screwed
Pace : 5.27min/km
shoe 87.67km

adirun - fort canning - clark quay 7.6km

2007-09-27T00:43:00.000+08:00

This week run have a slightly bigger turn up alvo, fahmy, martin, mich, aerosolcan and 2 other friends join for the run. The run was around fort canning and to clark quay and back, unfortunately one of the lady got lost in fort canning and some of us have to search for her. In the end we assume she returned back to the store. We continued our journey , on the way we saw pretty lanterns along the clark quay banks because of the mid autumn fest.

Side note:
Had a 22 laps at suntec pool on sunday, think there was like 2 other good swimmers there so was rather motivating..

Distance : 7.38km
Timing : 39mins 46sec
Pace : 5.23min/km

Run - sembawang road - 9.6km

2007-09-23T11:12:00.000+08:00

I think being a regular runner is like a person witnessing the progress of your surrounding areas. I mean you can see construction of buildings and amenity being built up or even as a neighborhood watch guy . Anyway yesterday decided to do a short LSD around sembawang again but with some slight changes. Went thru the sembawang road instead or the usual route . The ipod went a little cranky when ever i pause my run, the volume just crank up. But at the end of the run everything is back to normal.

Distance : 9.64km
Timing : 50mins 38sec
Pace : 5.15min/km
Shoe mileage : 70.77km

2007-09-19T22:41:00.000+08:00

A very out of shape run for me today. Not sure what's the reason for the decline in stamina but during today speedwork with fahmy, alvo and cfred . I feel legs was liken that of weights being strap to my ankle. Tiring to lift up. My breathing was double the amount and so is my heart pounding super hard.

Maybe its my low biorhythm week. Hopefully it will be better next week.

In other news i just got my new ipod nano 3g.
Better interface and wider screen ...love it..! most of all great to run with.

Distance : 7.56km
Timing : 39mins 20sec
Pace : 5.12min/km
Shoe mileage : 61.17km

LSD run - Eastcoast park 21km

2007-09-16T19:44:00.000+08:00

Distance : 21.83km
Timing : 2hr 11mins 45sec
Pace : 6.02min/km
Shoe mileage : 53.61km

Run - Sembawang -yishun 10.8km

2007-09-14T12:03:00.000+08:00

Missing the adirun on weds , as i had a small gathering with reno before he leaves for taiwan. So had a short run yesterday. Its also the first run on the beach with my supernova. Couple of things i notice is the path (shortcut) from simpang kiri park to the sembawang road has been completed . Also the park along sembawang road / canberra road is almost complete. It has a artificial stream in it too.

Oh my cert from the Passion run has arrived. Boy does it look neat!

Distance : 10.11km
Timing : 53mins 01sec
Pace : 5.14min/km
Shoe mileage : 31.78km

LSD run - seletar airport 16.78km

2007-09-10T20:41:00.000+08:00

Things you might feel strange to find in this run
- a Horseshoe crab in the next to a road
- Tons of car park along the dam in at 4pm in the afternoon (aren't they suppose to be work?)

Shack now.. think i will stop here

Distance : 11.95km
Timing : 1hr 04mins 55sec
Pace : 5.25min/km

Distance : 4.53km
Timing : 26mins 40sec
Pace : 5.23min/km

2007-09-08T14:20:00.000+08:00

Did a short bring run ard the jogging track for a change at abt 9pm. As I got a meeting the next day morning I have to give BG run a missed.

Put on my new pair of Adidas supernova 6 for the first time. Definately an improvement from my asic nimbus. The bounce help reduce the impact but not sure for longer distance will it be comfortable. Only did abt 5km this time round.

adirun - kallang park - former stadium 8.55km

2007-09-06T14:41:00.000+08:00

Today we took a different route for adirun, a rip off from the aviva ironman route. Cfred lead the way for us (staz, fahmy, michiko, michelle, shawn) . But some way towards the stadium shawn got cramps on the knee and had to slow down. Cfred and staz was in the peak and they surge ahead stopping only to direct us.

At the end of the run, we could not find shawn after 30 mins of waiting so we sent out to look for him thankfully he was returning as we were heading out. Seems like the police stop him along the bridge. Asking him why he is jogging alone at this hour , and toke down his details.. THAT IS SO RIDICULOUS ! can't anyone run alone at 9pm? is it considered late?

I hope he took down the name and vehicle number of this police. Must be he did not meet the quota in his notebook!

In other news , just got my shoe.. and surprisingly its not the adizero tempo but this..
Adidas Supernova! 6 (abt 116 after discount) . Its time to do some long distance running..Some of the features includes:

Pronation Control Technology

Designed for neutral pronation & supination

Midsole: Single-density compression molded EVA, torsion system and ForMotion

Shape: Semi-curved

Construction Last: Strobel-lasted Adiprene 45 in the heel traditional strobel-lasted in the forefoot

Cushioning Technology

Midsole: Compression-molded EVA

Heel: 3-D adiPRENE, ForMotion

Forefoot: Full forefoot adiPRENE+

Upper Materials

Seamless fit technology, quick-dry open air mesh, 360-degree reflectivity

Geofit ankel support

Outsole Technology

Heel: Adiwear carbon rubber

Forefoot: Blown rubber with QuickStrike

Ok probably i will give this babe a test drive on sat! see u all at BG run.

Distance : 8.55km
Timing : 44mins 44sec
Pace : 5.13min/km

Run - LSD 14.8km yishun - seletar airport

2007-09-03T11:21:00.000+08:00

Took a long run towards seletar airport today , hoping to catch a glimpse of private plane taking off but no luck instead i was being followed by 2 weekend runners on my tail at seletar airport.
Seems to be following me over maybe 1-2 km, i turn left they follow i turn right they follow. And their pace was getting faster.. i had to push myself hard before exiting the airport. Finally they disappeared.

Distance : 14.8km
Timing : 1hr 18mins 54sec
Pace : 5.27min/km

Heck no run!

2007-09-01T14:04:00.000+08:00

Things hasn't been so well lately.

Was planning to get down to the adirun on weds to purchase the tempo shoe. Did not bother to bring down an extra shoe, and guess what my size is not available. Argh so in the end i did not join the gang (fahmy, alvo, cfred, michiko) for the run and was stuck at the suntec pool swam about 22 laps .. resigned to fate thankfully meteor was there at least i ain't that bored.

Wanted to run on thursday but turn out i have to meet up with my friends ..

As for friday i had another swim at the pool as promised 15 laps... was rather tight schedule..

Thumbtack on my neck run - 13km of pain - yishun -- sembawang

2007-08-28T12:30:00.000+08:00

Ok it literally means i was having stiff neck while running this LSD. Well if you thought that Stiff neck was not bad enough i have to endure smoke inhalation at the start of my run. Because of the special 15th day of the month , and they had to burn tons of paper along the road side.

Stopped a few times here and there because of the pain , could not lift up my head much and shoulder was kind stiff too.

Afew more days and i will be getting another pair of shoe and nimbus (1 year old on sept 8th) will be used only for short runs of 10km or less..

Distance : 13km
Timing : 60mins 07sec
Pace : 5.28min/km

Adirun - tanjong rhu 8.75km

2007-08-23T13:29:00.000+08:00

Meet Adirunners at suntec city last evening, the group was strong about 9 of us. stacy, fahmy, cfred, martin, su yin, michelle, alvo and one other lady.

Instead of a fast run me, alvo and cfred decide to take it easy and let the rest of the group run ahead. At the end of the run we just gamely tell them that they are really improving !

Looked at the adidas tempo shoe looks really nice, but i am not sure how the shoe would feel while running .. should i get it?

Distance : 8.75km
Timing : 51mins 37sec
Pace : 5.53min/km

Run - Yishun heartland 10km

2007-08-21T11:20:00.000+08:00

Feeling guilty with the sky cleared up (cloudy/slight drizzle) , i made my run around yishun about 10km. Road kills i see today are kind of strange.. a chicken , an exotic bird..

I reckon its time for me to change a new shoe hmm maybe a wave rider 10..did my fastest mile today.

Distance : 10km
Timing : 52mins 42sec
Pace : 5.13min/km

Army Half marathon race pack

2007-08-20T13:45:00.000+08:00

Well here it is race pack for the army half marathon. Unfortunately its not mine but cfred. Cause he is away for desaru triathlon , i volunteered to help him collect the race pack.

Hopefully no rain later, have not been able to do any LSD no thanks to the weather!

Adirun - singapore river 7.5km

2007-08-16T11:57:00.000+08:00

Fast paced , SFD run thats how i describe this adirun, With couple of new guest appearance by DO, DR, Aerosolcan besides the usual crowd like stazla , alvo , cfred and fahmy.

The route we did was the esplanade park till the end of zion road. Some surprises along the way like the floating platform not open to public even though it has been cleared of the NDP stuff. The end of zion road was blocked due to construction.

Oh well still its a good run with plenty of chats in between..

Before heading back caught a sight of this match between the cat and a mouse..

Distance : 7.23km
Timing : 38mins 25sec
Pace : 5.18min/km

Run - Yishun Dam 8.28km

2007-08-14T10:33:00.000+08:00

Just another yishun dam run, but notice a fixed structure out in the open sea near the dam, its like a metal kelong. but i bet its for fishing purpose. or is it a guard post to shoot illegal immigrant try to swim to shore? hmmm

Zooming in we can see its painted red / white. like car test center pole

Distance : 8.54km
Timing : 45mins 46sec
Pace : 5.31min/km

TLR wedding run

2007-08-10T00:08:00.000+08:00

Oh man.. Its raining now. That's what greeted me the moment I woke up. So I check with tiwazz. He say worst case no run just makan. Today is the wedding run of TLR and FD.

So hurriedly pack my bag and headed down to meet with the rest. Those who came are ai chai, rontgeon, kj, junie, , tiwazz , sv , alvo and meteor. TLR being the target came late.

We tired cans and balloon around his waist .plus plastered him with the just married sign . The run was around clementi and holland v. About 8 km route as the previous route does not have the audience impact. At the end point FD greeted TLR for his hardwork and we all headed down to the coffeeshop for drinks and breakfast. Our hardwork does not end here, we made our way to the clementi swimming complex for 10 laps of the pool too. Gentle was there already did some 15laps while waiting for us.

We had a lot of fun photographing and video him. Amid the humiliation i hop he did enjoy it.

the wedding run (tlr n fd)
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distance 8km
time about 60mins

Yishun -Sembawang 12.35km

2007-08-07T14:46:00.000+08:00

Yesterday , did a LSD of 12 over km run from yishun - sembawang park - kings ave - woodlands road -sembawang road.

Feels good after a long break , but still slightly sore over my calfs must be of my ippt. on a side note , did not manage to sign up for the Singapore bay run as the online system is down on the last day of registration. Oh well, maybe i will be there to photograph and support the runners.

Distance : 12.35km
Timing : 65mins 50sec
Pace : 5.24min/km

Adirun - IPPT results for 2007

2007-08-02T20:30:00.000+08:00

Did not ran yesterday due to my IPPT the next day, but did drop by Suntec as I had a meeting ard the vicinity. Stacy brought another friend down for the run. Shuizhen. Others who are there are michelle, stacy, alvo and meteor . I believe they did a 13km route to marina south and back. I took the opportunity to do 20 laps on the 25m pool upstairs.

As for today I did my IPPT today and for the final time I got GOLD . As per usual. A lesson i learnt to day is not to relay on technology too much. My 2.4km run kinda make me experience it. My timing was not clocked into the RF gantry. I had to raise my hand to inform them every round i make. I think my timing was suppose to be about 9.55 but the result slip put me at 10.05 argghh oh well at least its still GOLD fer me.

Sigh, this could be my final IPPT because I will be MR from reservist from next year.. No more 400 bucks from the gahment..

Updates - weekend runs

2007-07-30T20:50:00.000+08:00

Sat
Was invited by my friend to st gregory spa over at plaza parkroyal. Did a short 30mins run on the treadmill thats about 5 km, then did some weights. But hey theres no weights bar on the equipment.. but it ultilise a pneumatic pump system. Now thats something new. Just press the button to increase or decrease resistance/weight. Cool!
After which we head to the pool for a couple of laps.. the water was icy cold due to the earlier rain .. and there was no time to pause or slow down! And finally before i bath , had a short session inside the steam room.. ahh thats life!

Sun
Went down to eastcoast to take photos of the Osim triathlon.. familiar faces from sgrunners taking part. And they all did well despite the shortening of the race and , eliminating the swim segment due to choppy weather. Congrats to everyone there!

Mon
Nothing beats running out into the park for a jog ..Finally after a long hiatus i got to do my normal run at sembawang road.

Distance : 8.96km
Timing : 47mins 54sec
Pace : 5.20min/km

Time to let go...

2007-07-27T00:29:00.000+08:00

of my Sony MDR earphone.. one side of the earphone no longer works.. Oh well , so using my reward voucher from starhub , i got another earphone from Sennheiser . The OMX 70 Sport - "If you can get past the neon green coloring, Sennheiser's Sport Line has a design for every fitness fanatic." $81

Have to make do with the neon green coloring for now..At least when i run at night on coming car get see a neon line floating in the air.. and avoid me haha

Run - suntec - fort canning - clark quay 7.5km

2007-07-26T07:02:00.000+08:00

Short run today with adirun group, Staz managed to get a friend down for the run. and the group look slightly larger 3 gals and 2 guys.

The route was from suntec to fort canning and back via clark quay. Not a very long distance as we skipped one round at fort canning. But none the less was rather tiring as we are going at quite a fast pace.

After the run we did about 4 laps at the pool. Water was freezing must be due to the rain earlier in the day. We celebrated mich engagement with a toast at balaclava before heading home.

Distance : 7.5km
Timing : 42mins 27sec
Pace : 5.34min/km

Mizuno 10km wave run 2007

2007-07-22T11:40:00.000+08:00

What can i say about the first run i had since i returned.. horrible.. not me but the organisers for the mizuno wave run.

Lotsa of minus point to the run. Let me try to get it straight in a chronological manner.
- Bag deposit was only announce where it is (2 van smack inside the stadium) 20 mins before the event starts. Causing massive blockage infront of the start line not to mention the queue time.
- Bags were stuff into the van, which in turn make it hard to take out the bags later. First in last out, just imagine that
- Massive blockage at the start of the run , due to choke point near the entrance into the reservoir (over 5 mins )
- No clear indication for where 5km or 10km runners suppose to split at the junction. In the end i saw like alot of 5km fun run runners doing the 10km route.
- The ground was muddy and full of pot holes making it difficult to run on ( i can understand if its the NB real run but this anit)
- No Clear indication where the end point is resulting in mass chaos , 2 other run were held near by if i am not wrong one of them is Aljunied CC walk a jog. And the finish sign was meant for that.
- The start and end point should be in the same location and not shift away.
- Not enough marshallers involved in the race. That could be the reason why alot of runners got lost.

To the organisers "Wake up your ideas!" . Probably my last mizuno wave run.

Distance : 11km
Timing : 60mins 49sec
Pace : 5.30min/km

Jetlagged

2007-07-21T16:25:00.000+08:00

Back from my london/paris vacation. And I am severely
- jetlaged
- under trained..no time to run over there.

as tomorrow is the mizuno wave run at bedok reservoir ..I am plannin to take it easy.

Sacony Passion Run - 10km east coast

2007-07-19T23:04:00.000+08:00

Did not find the time to update passionrun before I departed for my trip.

Anyway got down to east coast , hitching a ride from jamesoh early in the morning . Got to the run site at the plain field next to the east coast food center . Had to park at the next carpark as the nearest one already full. We hurried down to the start line along the way we met DR doin his warm up run .. Actually no he went to his car to get some stuff.. Turn out he prefer run then walk.. Oh well.

We met quite a few sg runners as the night before they gang celebrated the anniversary at a chalet nearby. The race started about 745 . I started pacing along with cheow at the first quarter of the run. But he gained momentum and pull away from the crowd. Had to be contemplated running on my own . Occasionally sayin hi to some friends along the way. On the return route , I realised it was getting hotter and my chest was crushing on me. Took 1 or 2 walks.. Running on concrete floor may have some effect on me too.

In the end I came in at 55mins . What a let down. Oh well got my goodie bag and 100plus drink. Me and james then head down to bedok estate for breakfast . He intro some famous food .. Like teochew bah chor mee.. And zhu chang fen..

2007-07-07T23:12:00.000+08:00

Meet up with mich and freddy yesterday for a round of 20 odd laps at the suntec pool. With the weather so hot these days its a relieve to be dip in the pool. Tappering now for the coming race tomorrow. Not to mention a meeting with client before coming back home to pack up my bags.. And rush down to the airport to catch my flight.

Okay time to sleep.

Run - orchard road - rivervalley 10km

2007-07-05T15:40:00.000+08:00

Swim - 24 laps

2007-07-03T19:25:00.000+08:00

Been sick for a couple of days , mileage for running has drop. Weekend swim was also postponed. Until today. Had a couple of laps on the pool today in the afternoon , feeling breathless with each laps. Oh time to plan my run for this sunday and my trip to london / paris

Swim 20 laps / Run 9km

2007-06-27T17:29:00.000+08:00

Tuesday - Run 9.66Km

Been sometime .. infact many months since i run with SGrunners at CBD area. Turn out was good, let me see if i can remember everyone there. Shut, ronnie, bee, charlotte, tigger, tiwazz,cosmic, TK, Richard, philip, fennel, yankee guest appearance TLR, fd , penguin , tekko , yongwei

Tested out the new 2nd anniversary t-shirt from TLR looks nice.. embroidered somemore..

According to tigger the run was a 9+ km route. going around marina south and back. Not my favourite route if you ask me. As most part of the route is well quite boring ha. The group i was with was fast leading the pace was TK and cosmic, catching up to them was hard i kinda give up towards the end.

Thanks for the isotonic drinks and the pao from penang! :P

Dark pool

2007-06-26T17:03:00.002+08:00

Made a trip to safra pool lastnight. Surprise to see that monday evening there's a scuba diving course going on. Half the pool was cordon off. And the rest of the half were cramp with swimmers. Arghh mental note ..try not to swim on monday in future.

jumping into the pool I also happen to notice that the pool lights on the left side was not working.. As if visiblity was not good enough with my darken googles.. Had a couple of near collision in the pool. Someone has to informed them abt the pool lights... Maybe it will be fixed next week. Let's hope..

20+ frontcrawl laps completed
2 laps breaststroke

Run - suntec - national stadium - tanjung rhu 10km

2007-06-20T01:03:00.000+08:00

To stadium - from suntec
Distance : 2.54km
Timing : 14mins 14sec
Pace : 5.47min/km

from stadium to suntec
Distance : 6.99km
Timing : 39mins 35sec
Pace : 5.49min/km

Run - Yishun heartland 9.8km

2007-06-18T20:12:00.001+08:00

Would have run longer if not for the rain. Oh well did a detour after the bottle tree park. Getting back my nikeplus tomorrow for a better and more accurate timing.

Run - Sembawang -yishun 10.8km

2007-06-11T20:20:00.000+08:00

Run - Yishun park - pond 5km

2007-06-07T23:27:00.000+08:00

Missed out yesterday run due to last min appt. Made up by doing a fartlek around my neighborhood.

the route covering yishun pond and the yishun park . Fartlek part was around the dirt track around the pond while a little slope trainin up the yishun park hill. Notice some area of the park was having some tree branch trimming session. must be due to the recent spite of killer branches.

now I am worried about the up coming race.. Have I been doing enough running ?..

Distance : 5km
Timing : 25mins 58sec
Pace : 5min/km

Swim - TI drills - 20laps

2007-06-04T00:06:00.000+08:00

Finally got my butt out of the house and had a swim with Stazla and Dap. Well along the way to the pool bump into Roonz (marathoner wanna be..hmm looks like should be triathlete wanna be ) she was returning back from WHR run and swim at the SSC pool. Oh well she says its cheaper at SSC which i kinda agree.

At the pool we did about 20 over laps.. and another first i managed to swim none stop on freestyle for 4 laps. horay! .. now the pieces are in place for my biathlon .. The rest of them also tried the TI drills from the video and we take turn commenting on each other. On our way back we bump into Andy and SV , and had some catching up at the coffeeshop. Talking about work and stuff..

Run - Sembawang -yishun 8.67km

2007-05-29T01:18:00.000+08:00

These days i swim about twice a week rather then just once. Hoping with extra mileage i can swim more effortlessly. Recently i acquired the TI swimming video and tried out couple of drills ..

Sat - about 20 laps (at suntec pool with mich, spotted divey learning there)
Sun - about 10 laps ( extra duty of teaching dap's brother and gf, delighted that i corrected his ankle movement )

As for monday did the standard sembawang route. But along the way my nike plus did not connect with the sensor. I was force to switch to manual timing. Looks like gotta send it for repair.

Distance : 8.67km
Timing : 46mins 58sec
Pace : 5.19min/km

Run - marina south 10km

2007-05-24T00:06:00.000+08:00

its been sometime since i blog , well cause
1. been slacking
2. been lazy
3. been busy

So the real reason is all of the above.
With my new revamp portal up i am finally able to breath again. Incase you don't already know yet it's www.salsasingapore.sg . Not to mention a few projects to do. Plus i am planning a trip to london this july.

But still manage to squeeze in for swim on last friday and sat . Plus i also took sometime and signed up for a run.. the passion run happening this july 8th - my first for this year.

Anyway back to my run
Today went down to adirun for a run with the guys. Seems like the crowd is slightly larger then lastweek with cfred , fahmy and michiko. We decided to do the marina south route.

On the way to the warmup area . We notice it has been seal up for construction of the new millennium bridge. So no choice have to go next to the sheares bridge for short warmup. point to note "lotsa moquito must avoid there in future".

We started the run at about 7.07pm and towards the shenton way and then tanjong pagar before turning into the marina south. Did a u turn around the pier and guess who we bump into choon wei. Yup so we chatted along with him on the way out , thats the part when the speed went up to maybe 4 + min/km pace. At that point i almost can't keepup. Notice there is a new road from marina south just open recently so i nudge the rest to give it a shot. Seems like it leads out to NTUC building and cut about 1 over km distance .

In total the run was slow in the beginning, fastest in the middle and fast in the end..

Run - Tanjong rhu 8km

2007-05-17T13:18:00.000+08:00

Run - Upper seletar reservoir - 7.49km

2007-05-14T22:11:00.000+08:00

Today i remembered that the newspaper reported the opening of the water-venture at upper seletar reservoir so decided to check it out from my run. Its a water sport center that offers canoeing , paddle boats for training and rental.

The route was a little short as i spend alot of time taking photo and enjoying the breeze at the parks. I do feel its about time to buy a new shoe as the cushioning is feeling hard on my feet. hmm what should i be getting next.
Distance : 7.49km
Pace : 5.20
Time : 39:50mins

Safra swim

2007-05-14T14:57:00.000+08:00

Did a weekend swim at the safra pool about 20 laps with Dap (stazla away on diving and the rest are celebrating mothers day i guess)and wow gosh she has improved no more using the kickboard. At this stage i think its all about clocking mileage while for her to strenghten her breathing endurance. This time round i could comfortably do 2 laps without stopping. Dap dare me to swim 3 laps continuous , well i give it a short and yes i made it.

I did a timing on my swim and 2 laps was at 2:24 quite alright i guess.

Run - Yishun Dam 9km

2007-05-12T11:32:00.000+08:00

Had been quite tied up with work and all. So been missing alot of time on run, initially wanted to go for adirun but it rained instead. Oh well, so yesterday did a run instead. Arghh no more excuses next week.

1st half
Distance : 4.02km
Timing : 21mins 11sec
Pace : 5.15min/km

2nd halfPublish
Distance : 4.60km
Timing : 22mins 56sec
Pace : 4.58min/km

Run - sembawang beach - yishun 10km

2007-05-05T22:47:00.000+08:00

Distance : 10.05km
Timing : 53mins 27sec
Pace : 5.19min/km

Run - Yishun Dam 8.54km

2007-05-01T10:34:00.000+08:00

Was released from jail aka reservist on friday last week, went for a swim on sunday but was not doing so well, did only about 10laps.

As for monday finally got to do a run up the dam, i guess the last time i did it was in febrary. Along the route did some fartlek.

Distance : 8.54km
Timing : 44mins 09sec
Pace : 5.10min/km

Run - Sembawang -yishun 9.4km

2007-04-24T13:26:00.000+08:00

The whole of last week i only swam twice and run was Zero. Perhaps i was a little tied up , the weather was also raining when i needed to run. Sigh

So first thing for the week i did was running. Started abit late due to the rain but still i had lotsa energy conserved. Was feeling good while doing my run down to simpang kiri park connect, pace, posture etc. Close to the end of the park, this ang mo came out from no where and over took me with such speed.. kudos to him. gave him a thumbs up.

Was testing out my new modified ipod arm band and this time the perspiration did not hang my ipod so that to me is a great success. Over all it was a great run one of my better run for the year! Will be going back to reservist so i guess the next run i will be taking will be the weekend or next week.

Distance : 9.42km
Timing : 49mins 24sec
Pace : 5.14min/km

Weekend : Swim 1km

2007-04-16T01:29:00.000+08:00

Suppose to get a few other down for practice unfortunately Sat is still a working day for them. End up just me and stazla went to the pool. Thanks to SV who pass the safra card to Stazla , she was able to go in free too. The usual kicking practicing and well some laps for her. managed to correct minor problem with her breaststroke, which should make her glide more. As for me just 20 laps of the pool.

Run - simpang kiri park connector 8km

2007-04-13T20:27:00.000+08:00

The best time to run has always been after a heavy or prolong rain. For the pass few days I was busy and couldn't find the time to run or do much of anything. Finally today the rain stopped in time for me to run.

The route was simply run to simpang kiri connector and back. Along the way. Rain created puddles of water that reflects the sky and surrounding light. Rain also produced lotsa leaves that covered the concrete floor seems like u are running in the forest.
Streams of people slowly come out from their dwelling like rabbit out of their barrows.

Saw this guy running in the park barefooted remind me of someone mentioned from Taz blog. Who actually run well sort of barefoot. Not sure to applauded his action or to be worried for im..cause it might damage his foot without any cushioning.

Oh well somehow my ipod conked out on me halfway thru. Think my perspiration might have damaged it. Arghh time to get a water tight armband. Anyone want to sponsor me one ?

Distance : 8.25km
Timing : 47mins 50sec
Pace : 5.47min/km

Run/swim : Yishun dam /safra

2007-04-08T23:39:00.000+08:00

Yet again i mixed running and swimming in a one day training. Dump my stuff at safra before i kick off with a 7km run towards the yishun dam. Rain cloud was sighted but still braving a pending rain i carried on with the run. Fortunately it did not rain which was rather rare.

Swim was a mix of frontcrawl and breaststroke. But making better progress with my frontcrawl these days can do at least a couple of sets and not feeling so breathless.

Distance : 6.99km
Timing : 36mins 38sec
Pace : 5.14min/km

Review of belkin ipod armband.

2007-04-08T10:54:00.000+08:00

Description
Material used is soft neoprene textile .
With clear pvc window for ipod acess and a keyholder for locker keys. The armband also sports ventilation holes along the length of the armband.
Fasteners are the normal velcro tab thru a stainless steel loop. Reflective logo printed on side of armband.
Run test
During the run, PVC window view of my ipod is good without any vapor forming up due to the heat. Accessing the scroll wheel was thou stiff and slightly harder to turn scroll wheel..but still manageable. Perhaps using a thinner PVC might me better for window.

as I am a nikeplus user I find that there isn't a hole at the bottom of the ipod case for the extension holder. I have to resort to inverting the ipod using the larger opening.

The pocket for the locker key should have consideration for slightly larger one. As sometimes runner park their cars and use the pocket for their car key.

I find that my perspiration might enter the case as the opening is exposed and does not have a flap to cover it.

Over all i still find it comfortable to run at up to distance of 10km but not sure how it would feel doing a marathon with this armband.
And since its machine washable with all the wash instruction printed at the back of the armband.So go ahead throw it in!

Summary
A good comfortable band great for your normal runs, although not made for nikeplus but with a little hack you can still use it ( with a little getting used to viewing it upside down or right side up).

Availablity - not known yet

Swim interval - clementi pool

2007-04-07T11:09:00.000+08:00

The Apprentice becomes the teacher ... Well not quite yet for young padiwan roonz, but one day she will. Was at the clementi pool lastnight with tiwazz and roonz. i decided to do about 10 sets of 100m swim. And Tiwazz was kind enough to lend his time to run thru frontcrawl with roonz. At some point i would stop and observe the teaching from the jedi master, it can be quite amusing.

Oh well, After the swim we made a unanimous decision of going to botak jones for makan. On the way there, lo and behold we bumped into bug . He was having a shopping session with the mrs, Had alittle chat with him.

So what were the damaged done?

adirun - marina south - 10km

2007-04-04T23:00:00.000+08:00

Taking blogging to a whole new direction .. Literally.. By blogging while on the train.

Finally drop by adirun.. A punishing run for me come to think of it. Todays turn up was rather big..sv, michiko, fahmy, freddie, stazla, alvo, simon and cousin. The route was a rather long and definitely boring for me.. The dreaded marina south route.

Started of in a rather fast pace.. Averaging about 5 min/km.. Neck breaking speed for me as I try to keep up with freddie, simon and cousin. Along the way we bump into good ole ronnie doing his ninja run as usual. The construction of the IR at marina south created quite a few new roads somehow made quite a lot of detours. Finally at the 5km mark decided to make a u-turn back and go on my own pace back. Simon and gang over took me at the shentonway area.
Tiring run on the whole and i feel age is catching up with me.. retire while i am still ok? hmm
Distance : 9.76km
Timing : 51mins 05sec
Pace : 5.13min/km

Nano Armband testing....

2007-04-02T15:22:00.000+08:00

Been given the opportunity to test out an as yet unreleased belkin IPOD Nano armband. Will be putting up the review soon.

Run/Swim : Suntec - Kallang - Tanjong rhu 8.9km

2007-04-01T23:28:00.000+08:00

Was way too tired to pen my log lately. Heres a brief breakdown last week.. thurs and friday i went for swim did about 10 laps each at safra and bishan pool. lesson learnt is try not to go to a public pool on weekend cause it will be pack with kids at swim classes.

As for my run tried to squeeze in a run on sunday evening with mich. She brought me to run at new route fahmy did last week, which goes to tanjong rhu area. Which was refreshing for a change. Mostly flat route crossing over about 3 bridges. Some greenery along tanjong rhu stretch but construction and roadworks marred some of the route. Was surprise the road work along the nicoll highway has been completed.

After the run carried on for a 500m swim at the pool before headin down for makan at the foodcourt. exhaustion took over me when travelling home.. wish i could just dose off standing in the train haha..

Distance : 8.9km
Timing : 48mins 18sec
Pace : 5.24min/km

Swim interval

2007-03-27T23:35:00.000+08:00

Arrive to the pool early so decide to hang out at the tracks. And guess who i saw .. singapore fastest runner vivien tang at the tracks together with a group of runners doing intervals. They were doing 1km interval with 200m of slow pace running. She average about 1:26 per 400m.. dang fast

Jump into the pool later for my first interval training under alex. there was like about 10 of us in the pool occupying over half the pool. 2 groups the faster more advance swimmers and us the slower group. Did about 10 sets of 100m a mix of frontcrawl and breaststroke for me .. not as good as the rest yet. After which 2 sets of legkicking before moving to the small pool for one arm frontcrawl and side swimming drills.

Then had dinner at prata shop as usual with new friends Anna , KC, Randy, Charles and Sgrunner SC5. With so much swimming i need a big meal!

Run - yishun - sembawang

2007-03-26T20:28:00.000+08:00

No lesson for me today , so decided to go for a badly needed run. The past few nights have to drinking and makaning like no body business. The weather was hot even at 6pm, feels like i am doing a heat conditioning run. Towards the end of the run i had to stop and go afew times .

Distance : 10.86km
Timing : 58mins 21sec
Pace : 5.22min/km

swim - long or short of it

2007-03-22T20:09:00.000+08:00

Went to the pool and tested out swimming freestyles continuously

1st lap no problem...
2nd lap starts to pant..
3rd lap..ermm give me a break..

Oh well now I fear next week interval.. Can I survive ?

Total I did about 5 laps before the rain kicks in .. againz

Run - Yishun stadium - 6km

2007-03-21T20:25:00.000+08:00

Today decided to give adirun a miss as I had an event to go to. Unlike my normal run I decided its time to bring my ipod-plus for a calibration at the stadium.

Geared up my stuff . Peering out the window I noticed that the skies seems to break anytime soon. But still I decided to go the run.

well almost the same route to the yishun dam except for a detour to the stadium. Did a set of run and walk, yes my ipod is now calibrated. And back to the road I go. Notice my constant drinking and unhealthy food has really put my running into the drain.. Panting ..

Time to do something about it.

Start point to stadium
Distance 3.66 km
Time : 20 mins 21 sec
Pace : 5.33 min/km
Stadium to end point
Distance 2.27 km
Time : 12mins 39 second
Pace : 5.33 min/km

Swim lesson 9 - graduation?

2007-03-20T17:31:00.000+08:00

Graduation from beginner swim session at the CAAB pool lastnight. And will be joining alex interval training classes on tues night.

Oh well tonight session was rather strange cause, regulars like james stazla and fennel all did not turn up due to work, family and run commitment. Instead stazla friend boon hui, ivan and Roonz dropby for a 2 day trial lesson. So only me doing sets after sets of intervals while the rest are doing the usual beginner drills. Pool was rather pack, maybe its due to the heat.. even the antflys are especially alot in swarms they dives into the pool. Quite Disgusting i should say.

Oh well after that headed to makan at the prata shop before taking a cab back.

Mountain climbing weekend

2007-03-19T00:46:00.000+08:00

Ermm okay i exaggerated alittle here.. just bukit timah hill well still its quite a challenge this time round. Considered that i have not climb it since 2 years ago . Well took us 1 hr to get up there along the way we met obstacles including new erected fences.. long long flights of stairs.. not to mentions tons of monkeys.. waiting to pounce on unsuspecting humans with food on their hands.

Adirun - esplanade - CBD - Marina south 7km

2007-03-14T12:03:00.000+08:00

Tonights run was from esplanade park thru CBD then marina south and over sheares bridge. Quite a scenic route. The turn out was ok with about 5 of us Fahmy, freddy, alvo and babumouse well whats missing were the gals haha. Oh well so its a no hold bared night can go faster lor..

After the run headed to the pool for a couple of relaxing swim with alvo and babu. While meteor watches on.

Distance : 7km
Timing : 39mins 50sec
Pace : 5.41min/km

Swim lesson 8

2007-03-12T11:58:00.000+08:00

Swim lesson on monday was well some what different. first time we saw our coach condition . he fell off the bike and broke his shoulder blade ( not sure what bone is that) pitty he said that it will be 6 months later before he could do any sports.

Other than that all of us are making good progress, for me its more of gliding with every stroke.

Run - Sembawang -yishun 8.67km

2007-03-10T23:41:00.000+08:00

Distance : 8.67km
Timing : 46mins 12sec
Pace : 5.19min/km

Run - esplanade - kallang park 6.52km

2007-03-07T23:53:00.000+08:00

Its been sometime since i updated well not much of running last week. Maybe was feeling a little under the weather. Swam on sunday at suntec and monday at CCAB supposed to be lesson but alex was had an accident and his shoulder was injured. So couldn't make it ( hope he is ok). So just me and stazla there for the frontcrawl practice.

Wed - Adirun

Distance : 6.52km
Timing : 36mins 40sec
Pace : 5.37min/km

Swim lesson 7

2007-02-28T22:36:00.000+08:00

"pitter patter ..pitter patter"
that's the only sound I heard nearing to 5pm . Frantically I check with stacy and fennel if they will be goin down to the makeup swim session.. "Yes", they said.. Maybe at first check with alex and he said he will be there.

Grab my stuff and headed down to the CAAB pool. Turn up alex will be late and so we started our own swim first. Later 2 other swimmer from tues class also came down. Glad that alex said my stroke has improved and so is the breathing. Yes all the ninja training paid off not in monies but in effort.

what I feel abt swim is you can't rush it. When u get it ..u get it.. Just practice more ..thats wat I say...

Monday Swim Session

2007-02-27T14:16:00.000+08:00

Well since theres no lesson on monday due to the chinese new year and my instructor is at the Langkawi ironman competition. I headed down to meet up with the sgrunners (tiwazz, imd, bala, charis, aerosolcan, kops, babu, cheow) for a couple of laps at the clementi pool.

Babu , imd both just came back from langkawi ironman! babu looks like a charcoal but not for imd but congrats to them anyway. Stories of their trip was exchanged and boy it sures inspire me.

Had a great time interacting with them and spotting my problem not to mention trying out the paddle glove.

All the best to Kops for his Standard Charter Marathon at HK!

Updates this week

2007-02-26T14:48:00.000+08:00

Short run on Sat evening around yishun about 25 mins. Did not recorded it on my Ipod this time round think i need to get a water proof armband for it.

Distance :5.22km
Timing : 25mins

Followed by sunday swim at safra club with stazla , michiko, katrin and yukai. Katrin helped us corrected our strokes. And now i think my frontcrawl is more efficient with less head jerking up to breath.

Adirun - no go!

2007-02-22T15:10:00.000+08:00

Did not go adirun due to my phelgm and cough problem. So drop by the store to purchase something. Got a adidas baggy 7 running short. Quite a decent climacool short with a back zipper pouch for my running gel and other nicknack's , formfitting too . Oh well hopefully can try it out this weekend.

Fahmy , stazla , SV, Lionel and Michiko, drop by for the run. And for me i din hang around there for long.

Sport purchases

2007-02-22T14:51:00.000+08:00

Had been sick this couple of days during Lunar new year, Didn't really go out to visit relatives. Just once been to a friends place.
But i did got some more swim gear for my practice session at Champion sport store over at peninsular shopping center 5th floor. Its really quite a gem find. The stuff are over 20-30 percent cheaper then royal sporting house, thou the range aren't alot. but definitely good buy there.

Pull buoy at 15 bucks (royal sporting $21) Kick board $18 ( royal sporting $22) googles $16 (royal sporting $19)
total saving - $13
Smile on my face - priceless

Updates this week

2007-02-19T22:10:00.000+08:00

Not much run this week more like another slack week for me.. haha But i did
Swim on thursday give a few tips to my friend jon as he has been doing breaststroke all his life. Unfortunately he doesn't wear goggles to swim and thats a problem for him. But he did say that frontcrawl uses muscle that breaststroke does not, and he can feel the burning effect..

Chinese New Year is here again , and today after visiting friends i drop by the pool at clementi with M and did a few laps. Give some pointers and yup it helps!