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3.2km run at the stadium on 20 Feb 2016 Saturday

Ran 8 laps of 400m each at the stadium, total 3.2 km in 15min56sec. My initial plan was to try to run 24 laps of about 2min2sec for each lap and try to break my pb of 50min21sec for the 10km run. My fitness is far from ideal, so will have to try again another day. Slowest lap 2min5sec and fastest lap 1min48sec.

Private Space Venture

Recently, private space venture seems to generate more news than national space agencies. When such topics arises, the focus automatically falls on Space X ! And indeed it has been in the news, most recently on Jan 17, 2016 launching a satellite but failing to land on a barge in the ocean. It succeeded once on land in Dec 2015, becoming the 1st rocket to land its 1st stage after delivering a payload into orbit. Elon Musk is working to cut the launch cost by up to 40 percent by recovering the first stage of his rocket for reuse. It is indeed a remarkable achievement, all this done with private fund. Imagine what would have happen if he has the fund that some space agency has ? But then, he might not be that hungry for success if he has funding like those agencies. Imagine landing a 10 storey high rocket with the power it has, it's almost unimaginable! Space X is ramping up rocket production this year, next lunch is 2-3 weeks away and it will lunch a rocket every 2-3 weeks. If it la