The Infinite World

Yuki Kawauchi is running the NY Marathon this Sunday, 1 Nov 2015. I hope he achieve a top 10 placing and a good timing as well. I saw the policeman in motorbike trying to force him to drop back at last year edition, I think it's such a shameful thing to do to a elite marathoner! Hope he run a really good time this Sunday! A sub 2:08 would be really nice !

Human are inherently selfish and greedy. It's in everyone no matter how you try to overcome this shortcoming. We need to avoid falling into this same trap again and again. No matter what you do, you will die one day. Do not be greedy and want to have everything you desire and crave for more. How much you need to eat, how big a house you want, it's all very little that is required. There is only so much physical thing that you need, more importantly it's your physical and mental well being of you that will determine how well you have live your life!

Completed a 3 hours 2 min 44 sec run on 25 Oct 2015, covered a distance of 27.66km according to my Garmin 620. It was a slow run, averaging about 9km per hour. No muscle clamp today, I was just trying to run as relaxing as possible. I will try to cover at least 30km this coming Saturday.

High population growth is still an issue in many parts of the world, and subsequently bring about other related issues such as water population, hygiene, shortage of food, deforestation, crime and many others. One of the main issue is housing millions of people in proper housing with adequate water, food and giving them a job. Historically, people are attracted to big population area with jobs to offer, and this start off leaving rural areas sparsely populated, but causing cities to be jammed packed with millions. This in turn caused a housing issue, many high rise buildings need to be built to house these people. High density housing becomes the norm and all sorts of social issues start to emerge, which is prevalent in our modern society. So economic growth at what "cost" ? Human created all these self inflicted problems and can blame no one. We need to find balance even when want economic growth and try to pre-empt and eliminate such p...

Running at the top level is difficult. You have to be super disciplined, make sacrifices to eat well, rest well and stick to your game plane plus keep pushing hard to breakthrough to the next level. But, do not resort to making use of prohibited substances, such uses have tarnished the image of the sport. Everyone get suspicious when competition results are so good!

From the recent World Championship results, it is obvious that Asia is so far behind. The most populous continent only produce so few medalist and in some events, there are no finalists at all. Even Asian powerhouse become so insignificant at such world level competition, something is not right at all. Sometimes, I think it show how determine the Asian athletes are compare to some small unknown countries. Or maybe it's how bad you want to win for your country and how much you know about the level of competition and how you train to face off the competition. I think Asian athletes need to change their mindset, training and awareness of the competition in order to win in future world level competition.

All normal people can think, it's just a matter of how much and how deep your thinking goes! Most people do not know much about making full use of their mind, most people think alike and this is the evident that they do not give much thoughts about their everyday live. I think it would be good to teach people how to think effectively from young. But thinking can be a difficult subject to teach, if everyone can thinking logically and effectively, this world will be a much better place to live.

The World Athletics Championship just concluded recently in Beijing, China, with Kenya topping the medal standing, followed by Jamaica, USA, UK and Ethiopia. Actually, it's not fun to have a competition whereby the winners always come from the few countries. Hopefully, in the near future, countries with big population will raise to challenge for medals and more even competition, especially China, India, Indonesia, Brazil and the rest of the nations. And hopefully, we have honest competition from all countries!

Every human has certain fixed set of behaviour that is built-in from birth, such as seeing, breathing, eating, moving and learning. Other than the basic see, breath and eat, we need to learn the rest of the acquired part of human characteristics. A baby is basically neither good or bad in nature as they do not know anything, they are like a blank sheet of paper or a empty hard disk.  What they become as they grow, is all learn from what they see, hear and read, and learn to decipher all these inputs into their brain. Human beings need to learn how to educate the child from the time of birth, but this is a difficult thing to do,  but only for the more educated adults. The normal adult will not know much about how to teach and in still the correct set of social and intellectual behaviour for a child. I think the basic thing to remember is to not behave in a bad way in the presence of very young children, as they cannot tell what is right or wrong and they initiall...

I think the only way for human to get better at Space exploration is to practise more. We need to get our launch technology right and reliable and build space craft that have some endurance and track them accordingly. We need to launch more space craft and practise docking with each other, with more common standard and make them more manoeuvrable. Travelling to the moon should be a everyday affair and of course the moon base should be built as soon as possible. Like someone who said before, we need to get as many people into space and stay indefinite period of time, in order for human to survive as a technologically advanced race. First, I think we need to learn to behave like a logical adult and more co-operation effort to get our space exploration going. Less war and more money will be available for such explorations. Be less self centred and greedy as well, but this will require a great deal of discipline from the typical human beings.  

I am wondering how many Singapore citizens are above 100 years old as of today, 25 August 2015 ? But, data will definitely not be accurate, as back in 1915, official record keeping did not exist! Human always had and still has problem keeping our data accurate !

Did a short run of 3.2km or 8 laps of 400m at the stadium in the evening, clocked 15min 19.349sec. Initial plan was to try to maintain 2min per lap for as many laps as possible, but gave up the attempt after 8 laps. Not in the right state of mind to do a focus run, will try another day.

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.

The recent leaked documents seems to imply wide spread doping in athletics at world class level. The question everyone will be asking now, " So who is not doping ? ". It is bad for athletics, anyone who run fast will be suspected of doping at the coming World Championship in Beijing. Maybe in the future, all athletes should be made to eat natural food and plain drinking water, or eat food and drink stuff available in the public rather than special diet which they prepare on their own, which might contain special ingredients. This is the problem of science coming into the athletes' training and diet.

I am wondering has any country tried construction activities like building a spacecraft in space before ? The ISS is more like Lego rather than real construction. Human will need to master such feats before we can venture further into space. Building a huge spaceship and lunching it from earth will be a huge task with our current level of technology. We need to start learning how to build more complicated stuff in space and maybe produce material in space as well. Our current spaceship is like child play when compared to those in science friction movies. We have a lot of work to do before we even reach the level whereby we can travel to the moon and back regularly. If we can get to the moon regularly, then perhaps we can build a moon base and use it as a staging station for further exploration and also to test the robustness of our spaceships. This will need a combined efforts from the various nations to get some significance progress in a short time. 

SG Citizens, before you throw anything on the ground, before you leave the table after your meal at the food centre, try to clean up, or when you take a bus, do not put your feet up on the seat opposite you. If every individual do their part on keeping the environment clean, SG will be a really clean country and not a cleaned country. Teach your children the same principle as well, let them grow up with a good grounding on keeping the environment clean. Most people in SG just do not care once they get out of their house. You should not litter and keep the surrounding environment clean. I am quite sure majority of the people do not litter at home and will clean up after they eat at home. Do the same when you are out in the public as well. Everything about SG is first class in most peoples' eyes, especially foreigners. But we local know the fact that it's only the physical environment, we still have a long way in terms of developing the individual. 

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...

Just completed a 3km run at the stadium, 7.5 laps of 400m each. Clocked a time of 13min56.132sec. I have no actual plan in mind before the run as it was already quite late when I reached the stadium at 7.30 am. The 1st lap was completed in 1min57.270sec, followed by 1min55.189sec, 1min55.205, 1min53.907, 1min52.846, 1min51.649, 1min45.000sec and the last 200m in 45.066sec. Almost every lap was ran a little faster than previous lap except the 3rd lap which was slower than the 2nd lap. My personal best for the 3000m is 13min1.5sec achieved more than 20 years ago,  I will need more training to run a faster time.

I registered for the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 6 Dec 2015, Sunday. Last year, I clocked a personal best of 4 hours 47 minutes 26 seconds for the 42.195km. This year I am setting a target of 4 hours 30 minutes, which will translate to a average time of 6 minutes 23.93 seconds per km covered. Its not a fast time but it will take some consistent training starting now, the main aim will be to make sure the body can take the constant pounding over the 4 and a half hours.