The Infinite World

Start my run this morning at about 7.01am, weather was cool. I have no real target today but was initially thinking of a 20km run. Not in the right state of mind, just trying hard to do a double digit for mileage. Eventually covered 13.24km in 1hr22min42sec, averaging 6:15 per km. Thinking about work, which is not going too well. But, anyway just have to stay positive in the mind. Correct state of mind, will result in positive action in life !

Just need to put in a run, a messy run today. Did 2 km run in 9:54, average 4:57 per km. did a 1 km in 4:25.7 and another 1km in 4:22 and a slow 6:46 for another 1km then run a slow 1.79km home. Started the run too late, about 9 am and the sun was already burning high and hot. Initially I was thinking about trying to go below 4:15 for a 1km but I guess my food intake was minimum yesterday, so not much energy reserve to run fast. 

Did a 4km run on 23 Feb 2015, Monday. 10 laps at the stadium, completed in 19min19.353sec, averaging about 4:50 per km. Ran another 3 laps in lane 5, slow, finished in 6min54sec for 1.26km. No target in mind, just need a quick run.

Completed the Brooks Marathon Half Marathon on 14 Feb 2015 Saturday, the 1st long distance race of the year. It's a night race and the start time was 7.30pm at the Marina East Garden just next to the Shears Bridge. The race started at 7.30pm, according to the DJ, there were about 2,000 plus runners in the half marathon event and about 3,000 plus in the 10km which flagged off at 5.30pm. There were 2 waves and I was able to start in the 1st wave as I reached 40 minutes before flag off. I was able to get very close to the start line and everyone was running fast at the start, but I was conscious of how fast I can go and tried my best to hold back to around 5.45 per km pace. My pace was comfortable and close to what I can hold for a 20km run, passed through 5km at 28:17. Held this pace till about 8km mark and then speed up a little to about 5:20 for the 9km and then even faster to 5:09 pace for the 10km. Passed the 10km mark at 55:30, not too bad but can feel that I am not running q

Completed a slow 19.39km run on Sunday morning, 8 Feb 2015 in a time of 2 hour 8minutes 45 Seconds. Started the run at 5:13am from Ford Road carpark. Did not feel any fatigue at all during most part of the run, as we were running at a pace that still allow us to engage in a conversation almost throughout the run. I was at the same time checking myself to see how my body react at various stages of the run, and it was status green all the way. In fact we could have completed 30km easily if we keep the constant pace. 

Followed an old route which I used to run, from Lentor avenue-Yio Chu Kand Road junction towards Yishun, via Yishun avenue 1 to Seletar West Link. The Link is now open and it turned around when I reached the 10km mark in 59min43sec. Previously this road was still under construction and I had to turned back around 9km. I started the run early, around 4:56pm, therefore the weather was quite hot. For this run, I was focused on keeping a sub 6min per km pace, and was trying hard to maintain this pace or faster. I almost forgot that it was 5plus pm in the afternoon, and my transition lens shaded me well, as I did not feel the glaring sun much. I was running well despite the hot weather but I did have 2 water break at Seletar reservoirs park toilet at the 3.2km mark and 16.8km mark. I eventually finished the 20km run in 1hr 58min 5sec, this is a good run as I managed to push myself to maintain an average pace of 5min54sec per km for the entire run.