The Infinite World

SpaceX is going to up its launch cadence for Starlink in 2020, with the 1st Starlink launch on 4 Jan 2020. It’s going to be a record breaking year for SpaceX if everything goes according to plan. Humanity needs some big exciting things to happen to make life meaningful!

Completed 25 laps 10km at Yio Chu Kang Stadium, Singapore, in a time of 51min 39.4sec. Average lap time 2min 3.976sec. My legs felt fine all the way, but my breathing can be improved, felt winded. I tried to not to let the negative thoughts slow me down today. I was conscious of how my body, legs, felt throughout the whole run, but I had a slight issue with my breathing. Although it was not as though I could not catch my breath, but I kept having a winded feeling. Could have push a bit more in the last 600-800m to get a better time.

All my full marathon timing. 1998 5hr 35min 40sec 1999 6hr 11min 2006 5hr 50min 29sec 2007 5hr 31min 07sec 2011 6hr 04min 36sec 2012 4hr 57min 52sec 2013 5hr 16min 31sec 2014 5hr 19min 05sec (2XU) 2014 5hr 16min 53sec (Sundown) 2014 4hr 47min 26sec 2015 4hr 59min 27sec 2016 5hr 27min 51sec 2017 5hr 01min 33sec 2018 DNF ran till 19km plus 2019 5hr 34min 56sec Subjected to change as I am researching into past timing.

SpaceeX completed her 13th successful mission of 2919 on 16 Dec 2019.  The payload was a approximately 6.9 ton satellite for Singapore/Japan customer to geostationary orbit. The first stage booster B1056.3 made a successful landing on one of its drone ship (OCISLY) in the Atlantic Ocean.There will be another launch on 31 Dec 2019 for Starlink 3 with another 60 satellites.

Marathon is hard for the everyday runners who are slow like me. I struggled to finish at the Singapore  Standard Chartered Marathon on 30 November 2019, because I did not put in enough mileage during training. The body need to learn to get used to the distance, it needs to go through the tiredness and the pain barrier as well. Although I did not really stopped running for any stretch of more than 15 seconds, I was just really shuffling very slowly. There is no shortcut to running, you just need to put the body through the paces.

Overcame the DNF fear finally, completed my 14th marathon on 30 Nov 2019, Saturday, in a time of 5 hours 34min 57sec. Although it’s not a good time, I am happy I completed another marathon. I am glad I did not end running marathon with a DNF. The farthest I had gone was about 2hours20minutes before the race, I had to really tell my body not to stop for more than 20-30 sec at any one point. My slow run became more like a brisk walk, but it’s still better than totally loose the momentum by really walking. It was like 9min per km vs 11-12min per km, I would have ended up beyond 6 hours. Now I am thinking should I join Sundown marathon in 2020 ?