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1st Run of Year 2016, 1st Jan

Completed my first run of the new year 2016 this morning, 5.2 km in 27min36.9sec, 13 laps at the Yio Chu Kang stadium. Ran 2 other individual laps separately, the 1st in 100.83sec and the 2nd in 91.88sec. Happy New Year to All who is reading this post! Hope all humans become united as one race, so that we can start exploring other worlds!

It's Time to start Thinking

Why do we end up with our current state of world affairs ? Well, one of the reason is because many of us human are not thinking right! Our mind are easily influence by what other people say and our actions are a results of the ideas we absorbed from these people. If these information we absorbed are bad and evil, the decisions we made and things we do will harm people around us and our surrounding. We need to start thinking right and we need to teach people how to think right. We should start with the way education are given and start a subject called 'Thinking'!  We should teach people to make good use of our powerful mind to the benefit of our kind and the planet we live on. The trouble we are in now, the way the world is evolving, is a direct consequences of the actions of the bad thinking of many of our fellow humans. Whatever stress and suffering we experience are all self inflicted. Imagine the world without war, without crime, it would be a wonderful world !

Running need some natural talent

I read on JRN that Yuki Kawauchi just ran his 28th sub 2:13 marathon and 50th sub 2:18 of his career. This why this is titled Running need some natural talent, if you are not born with some physical talent, I do not think a normal human can achieved such results. He work full time in a school from Monday to Friday and he is not a professional runner. How do you find time to train to run this fast ? He races often and uses these races as training run as well. He often run with so much effort, you can see the strain on his body as he run with grimacing expression. Anyone who is really into running, will know how 'fast' is sub 2:13. If you ever run sub 2:13, you are a runner who is at least 99.5 percent faster than all human beings on earth. He has done 28th sub 2:13, his fastest is 2:08:13. If I can ever break 3:30, it would be a super achievement ! I hope his news would inspire me to run more seriously and faster in the coming years ! He is not the fastest in the world ...

12 km run on 19 Dec 2015

Completed a 12km run in 1 hour 7 min 22 sec on 19 Dec 2015 Saturday. This is the longest run I did after the SCB marathon on 6 Dec. I just needed a run to gauge my fitness level, as I could my legs were strong and raring to go run, especially my calf muscle.  I averaged 5:36 per km, I considered this quite a good run, as I felt confident and my stride was smooth. I could have push my body to go a little faster, should have taken advantage of the opportunity to test how far I could go.

Thoughts on 2015

The year 2015 is coming to an end in about 15 days time. On a global scale, human has gotten from bad to worst, you see people being manipulated and doing stupid things. People are still as selfish and self centre as before, never really thought about what they are doing will impact others. We are the only one on this planet who kill each other intentionally with the use of weapons. The so called highly educated people do the most dumb things but still think it's right ! Human need to think more and think in the right way, but this is difficult with our current level of knowledge ! The only way earth will be a better place to live, is for human to start thinking in the right direction ! 

Review of My SCB Marathon 2015

I actually had enough training based on my personal running history over the years. I am just a very ordinary runner who always dream of breaking 3 hours in the marathon. I took part in a total of 11 marathon but only 3 are under 5 hours. So you can tell I am a slow runner, who dream big. Prior to the race, I logged about five 3 hours run, and maybe about five 2 hours plus run and a series of other 10km or more runs. This year, I clocked 4 hours 59 min 27 sec, 12 min 1 sec slower than 2014. The main reason is because my body won the battle against my mind, I was so overwhelmed by the tiredness of the body and I walked a little too much. The fun part of the race is the last 10 km when your body is extremely tired and it's ready to just give up. This is when your mind take charge and start to remind you that you should not give up. Last year, the muscle cramp started around 26km of the race, this year managed to delay it until I reached 30km. From this point onwards, I had to ...

Singapore Standard Chartered Marathon 2015

This year I reached the start point at about 4.30am with my cousin, we took the mrt train there. For the first time, I slept really well even though it was only 3 hours of sleep. I intended to be as relax as possible and I managed to do just that. I was feeling extremely relax and with my cousin's company, the waiting time passed very quickly. I did not try to move closer to the start line like what I did in previous year which I think save me a lot of trouble. The race started at 5 am sharp for the elite runners, I started in the second batch at about 5:04 am. As usual, it was a slow start. Covered the 1st km in 6:15, which was faster than I expected. But one thing to note is that only about 62 percent of the full marathon slots was filled, which was why I found that it felt less crowded when I was running. The second km was slower at 6:51 and passed through the only enclosed place on the route, it was the Fort Canning tunnel. The third km was clocked at 6:14 but from the ...

Singapore biggest running event 6 Dec 2015

The 2015 Singapore Standard Chartered Marathon is just over 15 hours away, on 6 Dec 2015, 5am. (Current time SG 1:20pm) The top prize for the elite ruuners is USD50.000.00 for 1st place. The top elite would finish the race in about 2hours15min for the men and about 2hous40min for the women.  In recent years, no Singapore men has ever run faster than 2:38 and for the women below 3 hours. Hopefully, the weather remain good and we get to see some good time from the local runners. I am hoping to finish around 4:30 tomorrow, I want to try to remain positive and relax throughout the run. I am looking to perform better in the uncharted territory in the last 10km, this would be a great achievement if can run 10 min faster in this last stretch. Wishing all ruuners all the best in the race, remember your mental strength is so much stronger, so make good use of it !