The Infinite World

Started my run this morning at 7.09 am sg time, from Yio Chu Kang Road just before junction with Ang Mo Kio Ave 4.The first km was slow at 7:11 per km. I ran pass YCK Mrt station, then NYP along AMK ave 5 to buangkok green. It was a really a struggle today for me, legs was feeling heavy and I ran at a slow speed just to get in some mileage. Although I was slow today, none of the subsequent km exceed 7 min. The 2nd km was 6:42, follow by 6:50, 6:33, 6:31, reached the 5km mark in 33min36sec. I entered the Sengkang park connector around the 6km mark, from here I was able to run faster and managed to get down to around 6 min or low 6 min. But mostly hovering around 6:20 per km. My aim today was to get back to running longer distance of up to around 20km. I reached the Punggol Waterway point around 1hr 8min 56 sec, aroun 10.52km, this is where I turnaround to head back to where I started. All went well until I came back out to the start of the park connector, the heat was getting t...

Covered 28.31 km this morning, 1 Nov 2015, in 3hr2min57sec. Hope to cover at least another 3 run of at least 3 hours prior to SCB Singapore Marathon on the 6 Dec 2015. I will try my best to achieve at least a pb of 10min faster than last year 4hr47min26sec. 

Today, I was on another mission to complete a 2 hours run again. I started slow as usual, and completed the 1st km in 6:39, but I started late at about 6:40pm so that the weather is cooler. As the run carry on, my pace increases to about just below 6 minutes per km. The late start did make the run a lot easier, you get into rhythm without having to have the heat slowing you down. Although it's cooler, the temperature of about 30 degree Celsius still caused the body temperature to go up as you run faster. I just hang on to a sub 6 minutes pace till the last portion of the run. My pace drop to 6:20 plus for a uphill portion and eventually slow further to 6:40 plus towards the end. Completed the 19.53 km run in 2hours 21seconds, without any water intake. 

Went out for a early evening run at 5.10pm, the weather was very hot and I could feel my body temperature raising rapidly. Started very slow at just below 7 min per km pace, and slowly settled down to a 6:10 to 6:20 min per km pace. Tried my best to stay at a consistent pace of around 6:15 per km, as my aim was to run for 2 hours. Although the weather was really hot, I found that by running at a consistent pace, I used up my energy more efficiently and did not feel tired so quickly. I ran without water intake throughout the whole duration of the run. A good run today as I finished the run feeling strong although I could feel my body temperature getting a little too high. Finished the 19.28 km in 2 hours 6 seconds, averaging 6min14sec per km pace.

Reached the stadium at 5:58am this morning, initial plan was to start running at 5:30am and run for 2 hours. Anyway, started to run and it was cooling in the early morning. The problem is that I always mis-judge the pace when I run when the sky is dark, my first lap was 2min40sec, way too slow. It took me a while to slowly warm up, in fact, the first 4 laps(400m each) were all completed over 2min30sec each. It was just difficult to run fast early in the morning, ran the 5th to 8th lap all around 2min29sec per lap. Ran the 9th lap in 2min28sec and the 10th lap in 2min25sec. My plan to run 50 laps of 2min24sec each vanished. The next 10laps was completed between 2min20sec to 2min27sec. I wanted to run in an environment where I can ignore if there was any rough uneven ground that I might trip over or looking out for vehicular traffics or concern of hard surface which might cause injury. This is why I choose to run in a stadium sometimes. The next 10 laps were ran a little faster as the s...

After 6 days of no running, I covered 15 laps or 6km in a time of 30min 7.816sec at the stadium on 14 June 2015. This was faster than the 30min12sec that I managed on 6 May 2015, in fact my first 3 laps was very slow, 2:14, 2:11 and 2:05. My last 6 laps were all faster than 2min each.

Did a short 7.5 laps of 400m at the stadium yesterday's evening, 3 km in 14min9.451sec. I have no plan before the run, just want to put in a short run. I also did a 200m in 49sec and a 400m in 87sec. I have been wanting to find out how fast I can run for a 400m and this is my 1st sub 90sec run probably in the last 2-3 years. This is not really a 100 percent effort, so I think I can probably get it down to 80-82sec. But the problem is as you run faster, there is not much grip on the synthetic track. I think the fastest I ever run for a 400m with a pair of running shoes was about 68sec many years ago. I might try to run with a pair of old spike I have to see how fast I can go !

I finally managed a decent long run of 20.4km on Wednesday, 13 May 2015. I covered the distance in 2hr3min6sec, averaging 6:02 per km. This is not a fast time by any standard, but it did take me quite a bit of perseverance to complete the run, as physically I am just not fit enough. Need to do some exercise to improve my core muscle group and also to reduce my body weight by at least 2 kg. Just have to keep training and pushing to run faster time.

Repeated my 6km run again on 6 May 2015, completed the 15 laps of 400m each, in 30min12sec. This is surely faster than yesterday's run of  31min29sec. My mental state was much better and I did a little bit of warm up exercise on the 6 May 2015 and this is reason why I run 1min17sec faster over the same distance. It could have been at least 15-20 sec faster if I had push my body a little bit harder. It is important to be positive mentally and maybe some visualisation of the next run will help us to run faster.

Did a 12.41km run to Bishan park and back home, covering the distance in approximately 1hr15min on Friday, 1 May 2015. It was a bad run, started our really slow and my kegs were heavy. I guess sometimes I will still need to stretch my legs a little to warm up and run a little faster to avoid such a situation, where I really struggle with my run. My next run was  on Monday, 4 May, 2015, this run was better. I covered 14.22 km in 1br25min, still slow but did not suffer from the heavy legs situation again. I was able to run a better second half and finished well with a fast closing stretch. Did a 6km run on 5 May 2015 at the stadium, 15 laps on a standard 400m track in 31min29sec. Slow run but necessary to make sure I still can run at faster pace than my longer run. 

Continue with training after Standard Chartered Singapore marathon, ran 19.4 km at the East Coast Park this morning in 2hr4min45sec. Started the run at 5.08am, started slow 6:33 per km pace for the 1st km, got slower for the 2nd km at 6:40.Kept hovering around the range of 6:46 to 6:59 till the 12km, hit the 10km mark at 68:02. From the 13km onwards, the pace got faster, 13km was reached in 6:31, then followed by 6:26, 6:20, 6:01, 6:09. After leaving behind my buddy at 17km, I covered the next km in 5:03 followed by 4:55 and the last 0.4km in 1:48. I was quite confident of my physical fitness, just coming off the SCB marathon.