The Infinite World

Covered 21.35 km this morning, but it was slow, 2hr23min plus. Tried out a new route today, start from Yio Chu Kand Road towards upper Pierce Reservior. Ran along old Upper Thomson road until I reached Reservoir park, I saw some runners who ran along the golf course. I followed them and ended up at the Macritchie Reservoir. Ran back to Yio Chu Kang Road via Thomson, then Upper Thomson Road. It was a nice scenic route and the early morning air was refreshing ! Slow but enjoyable run !

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.

Started my run late at about 8.26 pm, no particular expectation but I know it had to be short as I will be running more on Sunday. Run easy, 1st km reached in 5:48, continue to run relaxingly and it turned out to be a good run. Felt good throughout the run, so I just try to push my body to go on without feeling tense. In the end, I completed the 12km in 1 hour 6min 7sec, averaging 5:30 per km.  One of my better run lately, one that I felt satisfied!

Further to my much earlier post of the movie "Lucy" , though it might be some what exggerated in their portrayer of the brains' ability, we are definitely capable of much more. Human are often distracted by useless thoughts and wasted too much time indulging in meaningless activities. We will definitely achieve much more if are mentally stronger and be more focus on doing the right thing to improve our overall level of knowledge and evolve into a truly rational thinking living organism. 

Modern large warships of today lack short range weapons for self protection and close range engagement. Take a look at the armaments available today on aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ship , supply or support ship, most are small calibre guns which do not offer any real assault ability. Once these big ships are isolated from their other better arms ships in their naval task force, they are sitting duck ! Even modern destroyers or frigates suffer from the same fate. If any one have a few portable anti tank missile launchers would be able to take out a big destroyer. If you try to count how many guns a big US Navy destroyer has, it will not exceed 5. Probably a 5 inch main gun, 2 Phalanx CIWS and a few 20-25mm cannon. If a few laser guided or GPS guided short range missiles are available it would make a big difference!  A few would mean 20 or more missiles to defend the ships or engage close range attackers. Put in a few rapid firing mini guns at strategic position would e...

Completed the 3rd ECP Ford Road Carpark to NSRCC run on Sunday morning, 18 Jan 2015. Completed the run in 1 hour 56min 28sec, the fastest run for this stretch in my recent history. Reached the half way point in 1 hour 10sec and the second half in 56 min 18sec. Not exactly fast by any standard, just have to work harder to run faster. 

Went for a short run at the stadium this evening, 6 laps around the track. The distance is 2.4 km, completed in 11min00.319sec. The breakdown as follow: 1:53.964 1:56.152 1:51.700 1:52.774 1:48.925 1:36.804 Not a fast time and completed quite smoothly, could have push myself to run much faster.

Our so called modern world are plagued with so much problems, almost all self inflicted. Why this statement ? The answer is we cannot think and act independently plus rationally. We know what is good for ourselves and for our environment, but we are always influence by our evil self to act and do things that are not in line for a good purpose. We need to control our mind and think and act to the benefit of ourselves and our fellow beings and environment. We need to overcome our greed, our thirst for power to control others, our greed for more physical assets and many more unwanted desires. Human beings are always selfish in nature and greedy, we need to control such evil thoughts  (countless) and act in the correct way to ensure our kind survive.

Today is the 13th day of 2015, I am looking to run better this year. I am off to a slow start, only completed 3 run to date. The 1st run was a 5km run at the stadium in 24min25sec on 3 Jan 2015. The next run of 2015 was at East Coast Park, covered 19.4 km in 2hr11min3sec on 4 Jan 2015. It was a slow run, only the last 3 to 4 km was run at less than 5min per km pace. The 3rd run was also at East Coast Park on 11 Jan 2015, Sunday, in a time 2hr2min21sec. The 1st 9.7km was completed in 63min22sec and the second 9.7km in 59min. Only the last km was completed in less than 5min per km pace, average pace was 6:17 per km. I can see improvement in my ability to run a much faster 2nd half of a run, I able to run with more confident even towards the end of a run. I am able to accelerate and run at a faster pace despite already covered 17-18 km. I will need to cover more distance and make an effort to build up my core muscle strength, in order to really run faster this year.

Recorded a life time best of 51min3.5sec for a 10km run at the stadium today, 31 Dec 2014, Wednesday. It was 31.5sec faster than my previous best of 51min35sec in Jan 2014. I know I can do it as I had been running well lately, so I went running this evening pretty confident of a last pb for 2014. I felt relax today during the run, my stride was smooth and I could feel my body holding out well. Regretted not pushing myself a bit more during the later part of the run. I could have gone sub 51min for this last run of the year. I hope to continue to train hard and achieve better time in 2015 ! Happy New Year to all !

Did a short run of 3.6km at YCK stadium on Saturday evening, 27 Dec 2014, in a time of 18min20.3sec. Originally intended to try to run a 10km, but by the nine lap, it was raining quite heavily, so had to stop, do not wish to get sick. Did another short run of 5km at the stadium on 28 Dec 2014, Sunday evening. I wanted to run 10km but ended up running 5km in exactly 25min. Felt ok during the run, but I do not think I could have maintain the 5min per km pace if I try to run 10km. 

Did a mid-range run of 15.07km on Christmas Day in a time of 1hour30min52sec. Felt good during the run, just that that the 1st 10 km was ran quite slowly. Could have run much faster, I am now more aware of how my body will react during the later park of a long run. I guess by running more long distance training run, you unconsciously get better at reading how your body react and is able to run more efficiently.

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.

I woke up at 2.45am, in fact I did not even sleep for more than an hour. Had some bread and a cup of coffee and drink a cup of water as well. After washing up and changed, left the house at about 3.40 am. I slow jogged about 1km to the MRT station to take a train to the start point, special train service to town was available from about 3am. Reached the start point at about 4.23am and had to wait about 40 minutes for the race to begin. While waiting for the race to start, I felt very relax and calm although I did not put in the sufficient training needed. I just wanted to try my best to complete the run and I was quite confident that I could set a new personal best. The race finally started at 5.04 am, it took me about 3.5 minutes to pass the start point. As usual, the first km is always slow, with everyone trying to find a way out of the crowd. After the 2km mark, the crowd seemed to be spread out more and there was more room to run, from here on the run was smooth. The fi...

Another one hour 48min before the race start, did not sleep much at all and getting ready to leave for the race. Bought my Garmin 620 last night, seven and a half hours before the run. Wish all runners all the best in the run, relax and enjoy the run !