The Infinite World

It rained all day on Tuesday, till about late in the afternoon when the sun finally emerged from behind the cloud. Decided to go for a run at Bishan Park at about 5:20 pm, had no concrete target in mind, just hoping to run around 12-15km. Started slow from home to the park which is about 2.5 km away, the loop at the park is about 3.3 km. Just run easy at about 6:15 - 6:20 pace for about 4-5km, after which the pace picked up and I ran mostly below 6 min pace for the rest of the way. Not a very smooth run, as I could feel a little strain in the thigh and calf muscle. Stride felt ok, but just not as smooth and effortless as I hope for. But, after Sunday's 30km run, I feel much more confident of completing long run I set out to do, as I know that I can complete these comfortably if I run at the correct pace. In the end, I covered 18.02 km in 1hr50min1ssec, averaging 6:06 per km.

At last, managed to clock a 30.68 km run this morning with the help of my running buddy at East Coast park. Started out at 5:08am, it was a slow run for the first 19.43km, averaging approximately 7min per km.  We just take it easy and at a very controlled pace. Started at Ford road car park and turned back only at the NSRCC back to the start point, 19.43 km in 2:15:55. The aim is to run at a relax pace and clocked in the mileage, which we achieved. From the 20km onwards, managed to maintain a pace of below 6min per km till the end of the run. I was quite sceptical of whether I would be able to maintain a constant pace initially, but as I passed from 20 to 21 to 22 to 23 km, my legs and body seems to holdup well. From there, I felt comfortable running at an average pace of about 5:45 per km, I was able to even increase my pace slightly over the rest of run, achieving a peak of 5:36 per km. Today's run seems to indicate that my overall fitness has improved quite a bit, and I can

Wet weather again today, run at the gym for 1hr covering 11.6km. I have to continue to work on reducing my body weight to about 60-61 kg in order to run more efficiently. Have to also work on my core muscle group to ensure I can continue to run well after 30km, this is where I am lacking right now. 

The weather has been rather wet due to rain these last few days, so had to do some of my running in the gym. Yesterday evening was cool after the rain had stopped, went for a 20km run to a park and back, in 2 hour 3min 19sec, averaging 6:09 per km. Started out at about 6pm, was feeling rather lethargic for the first 4-5 km, but managed to get a good  rhythm once I entered the running path at the park. Just to relax and run easy between 5.30 to 5.50 per km pace. I was not able to sustain it for long but just tried my best not to let the pace drop too much from the 6min per km. I just push on despite the feeling of tiredness creeping in and keep my momentum. I know if slow down too much, the flow will be gone. I just let the momentum carried me through as I covered more ground. I think this is a good strategy, although my fitness level is still far from ideal, as I managed to complete the 20 km run in just over 2 hours. Today, one thing to note is that I did consumed 2 gels with 2 s

The movie is nice, and it reflects on human weaknesses. Human are very much emotional creature and are selfish, they usually regards their personal priorities as the most important even in the face of their own impending extinction. Children are not rational and adults are not much better. Space exploration is below our current technological capability, its just like deep ocean exploration. We are so too vulnerable in the harsh environment of deep ocean and space, perhaps we need to be able to explore the deep seas before we venture to space. We need the hardware to ensure we are protected in space, spaceship tough enough to withstand any foreign object that will strike our spaceship, we need a big enough spaceship large enough to carry enough food and fuel to bring us to our destination. Also better equipment to help with detection, be sure of where we are going and navigational equipment to bring us back. If you look at our current technological level, we will need many more yea

Another space movie "Interstellar" premier yesterday 6 Nov 2014 Thursday. I like to watch such movie especially when there are many high-tech or advance spacecraft in it. But travelling to  another habitable galaxy is out of our reach at the moment. We even have problem just getting into low earth orbit after 57 plus year of experiences, what a apathetic state of technology. Our species have not reach a level whereby we are really intellectually advance enough and stop playing to our innate feelings, especially those which are selfish and are capable of wiping out every species on earth including ourselves. I think we should be happy to stop blowing ourselves up when attempting to travel to space in the next 10-15 years. Even travelling to Mars is out of question in the next 15 years, with current commitment level. The moon, maybe !

Took a new route today, ended up running at a park during evening time. (Bishan Park) Covered 10.13 km in 1hr 0min 28sec, intended to run slow but ended up increasing my pace to 4:56 per km at the last km. The last 5 km was all under 6 min per km, felt fine and relax most of the time. I believe I could have run further, but will need some gel but did not bring any during this run. Have been running quite often lately but I still weigh around 65kg, need to reduce my weight to run more efficiently.

Did a 21.07 km run today in 2hr19min8sec, 6:36 per km today. A slow run but good for stocking up on mileage, in preparation for the SCB marathon on 7 Dec 2014. I did run faster from the 16-20km, clocked 5:01, 5:25, 5:35 and 5:08 for each of the respective km. Need to build up my core muscle to survive the later stages of the marathon, especially the last 10km.