The Infinite World

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.

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...

Saw the landing of Falcon 9 on the barge, the main issue is clearly the decelation was too fast too late and the engine control burn. They need to reduce the speed of rocket coming down a little more and I guess the main engine is too powerful to control it like on a fighter jet vector trust engine. If the control of the engine is better, I guess it should work. I think the flow of the fuel to the engine can be slower to reduce the thrust of the engine thus reducing the speed of the rocket coming down. I hope the deceleration of the engine start at least 10 seconds earlier to allow more time to reduce the speed further. Another way is to build at least 4 robotic arms that have elongated curve surface that extend up to the rocket when it's about 1 metre from the landing pad that can at least prevent it from toppling over.

Started my run at 7.09am this morning at the stadium. Initial plan was to run at a constant speed of around close to 2 min per 400m lap for 25 laps. I completed the 1st lap in 2:09, 2nd lap in 2.10 and I was feeling I was running quite fast. At this point I figure out that there was no way I can run close to 2min lap for 10km, I set myself a new target of 2.06 to 2.09 per lap. I ran the 6th lap in 2.06 and the 7th in 2.08 and I was already feeling tired. Eventually I ran my 9th lap in 2.05 and decided to end with 10th lap which I did in 1.47. My body was just all messed up and fitness is just not there. After a short rest, I decided to run a 1 lap and clocked 1.37. Called it a day and went back home. Need to run more, my mileage is too low right now. Got to keep pushing myself to improve this year !

Scientist think that there is a ninth planet out beyond Pluto which was down graded to a dwarf planet, based on their recent findings. Anything is possible because our knowledge is so limited right now. We rather spent time guarding against each other and killing our fellow humans. Things are out there waiting to be discovered, they have been there far longer than us, so it's a matter of time before we get to know them. Imagine what we can do if we channel our time and resources to expanding our knowledge instead on defences against our own kind. Well, we will get to our ninth planet soon!

Our mind is very powerful, so much more powerful than anyone can imagine. So when the mind is contaminated, it can become scary. Just like what is happening around the world, those who turn "bad" make this world a miserable place to live in. They are so self centre and seems like nothing can change them. They are so powerful that they can make so many people obey their order. And it seems like there are so many of them out there trying to create trouble every where. How to change the mind set of all these people ? I think it has to start with education from young, and parents and teachers should set a good example. And we must start a subject call thinking class, teaching each child to think in a positive way. Human is ultimately a complicated living things that are easily influence and cannot think logically. Our so called rational ways do not apply to every individual, so no matter how we perfect our teaching, there will be exceptional cases. Life is after all not pred...

Completed my first run of the new year 2016 this morning, 5.2 km in 27min36.9sec, 13 laps at the Yio Chu Kang stadium. Ran 2 other individual laps separately, the 1st in 100.83sec and the 2nd in 91.88sec. Happy New Year to All who is reading this post! Hope all humans become united as one race, so that we can start exploring other worlds!

Why do we end up with our current state of world affairs ? Well, one of the reason is because many of us human are not thinking right! Our mind are easily influence by what other people say and our actions are a results of the ideas we absorbed from these people. If these information we absorbed are bad and evil, the decisions we made and things we do will harm people around us and our surrounding. We need to start thinking right and we need to teach people how to think right. We should start with the way education are given and start a subject called 'Thinking'!  We should teach people to make good use of our powerful mind to the benefit of our kind and the planet we live on. The trouble we are in now, the way the world is evolving, is a direct consequences of the actions of the bad thinking of many of our fellow humans. Whatever stress and suffering we experience are all self inflicted. Imagine the world without war, without crime, it would be a wonderful world !

I read on JRN that Yuki Kawauchi just ran his 28th sub 2:13 marathon and 50th sub 2:18 of his career. This why this is titled Running need some natural talent, if you are not born with some physical talent, I do not think a normal human can achieved such results. He work full time in a school from Monday to Friday and he is not a professional runner. How do you find time to train to run this fast ? He races often and uses these races as training run as well. He often run with so much effort, you can see the strain on his body as he run with grimacing expression. Anyone who is really into running, will know how 'fast' is sub 2:13. If you ever run sub 2:13, you are a runner who is at least 99.5 percent faster than all human beings on earth. He has done 28th sub 2:13, his fastest is 2:08:13. If I can ever break 3:30, it would be a super achievement ! I hope his news would inspire me to run more seriously and faster in the coming years ! He is not the fastest in the world ...

Completed a 12km run in 1 hour 7 min 22 sec on 19 Dec 2015 Saturday. This is the longest run I did after the SCB marathon on 6 Dec. I just needed a run to gauge my fitness level, as I could my legs were strong and raring to go run, especially my calf muscle.  I averaged 5:36 per km, I considered this quite a good run, as I felt confident and my stride was smooth. I could have push my body to go a little faster, should have taken advantage of the opportunity to test how far I could go.

The year 2015 is coming to an end in about 15 days time. On a global scale, human has gotten from bad to worst, you see people being manipulated and doing stupid things. People are still as selfish and self centre as before, never really thought about what they are doing will impact others. We are the only one on this planet who kill each other intentionally with the use of weapons. The so called highly educated people do the most dumb things but still think it's right ! Human need to think more and think in the right way, but this is difficult with our current level of knowledge ! The only way earth will be a better place to live, is for human to start thinking in the right direction ! 

I actually had enough training based on my personal running history over the years. I am just a very ordinary runner who always dream of breaking 3 hours in the marathon. I took part in a total of 11 marathon but only 3 are under 5 hours. So you can tell I am a slow runner, who dream big. Prior to the race, I logged about five 3 hours run, and maybe about five 2 hours plus run and a series of other 10km or more runs. This year, I clocked 4 hours 59 min 27 sec, 12 min 1 sec slower than 2014. The main reason is because my body won the battle against my mind, I was so overwhelmed by the tiredness of the body and I walked a little too much. The fun part of the race is the last 10 km when your body is extremely tired and it's ready to just give up. This is when your mind take charge and start to remind you that you should not give up. Last year, the muscle cramp started around 26km of the race, this year managed to delay it until I reached 30km. From this point onwards, I had to ...

This year I reached the start point at about 4.30am with my cousin, we took the mrt train there. For the first time, I slept really well even though it was only 3 hours of sleep. I intended to be as relax as possible and I managed to do just that. I was feeling extremely relax and with my cousin's company, the waiting time passed very quickly. I did not try to move closer to the start line like what I did in previous year which I think save me a lot of trouble. The race started at 5 am sharp for the elite runners, I started in the second batch at about 5:04 am. As usual, it was a slow start. Covered the 1st km in 6:15, which was faster than I expected. But one thing to note is that only about 62 percent of the full marathon slots was filled, which was why I found that it felt less crowded when I was running. The second km was slower at 6:51 and passed through the only enclosed place on the route, it was the Fort Canning tunnel. The third km was clocked at 6:14 but from the ...

The 2015 Singapore Standard Chartered Marathon is just over 15 hours away, on 6 Dec 2015, 5am. (Current time SG 1:20pm) The top prize for the elite ruuners is USD50.000.00 for 1st place. The top elite would finish the race in about 2hours15min for the men and about 2hous40min for the women.  In recent years, no Singapore men has ever run faster than 2:38 and for the women below 3 hours. Hopefully, the weather remain good and we get to see some good time from the local runners. I am hoping to finish around 4:30 tomorrow, I want to try to remain positive and relax throughout the run. I am looking to perform better in the uncharted territory in the last 10km, this would be a great achievement if can run 10 min faster in this last stretch. Wishing all ruuners all the best in the race, remember your mental strength is so much stronger, so make good use of it !

Started the run at 5:31am this morning, the plan was to run 20km in under 2 hours. It started to rain about 3km into the run, decided to turn back at about 5.29km, nearing Buangkok green. After it started to rain, decided to just clocked as close to 20km as possible. In the end, I only completed 16.17km in 1 hour 41minutes 41 seconds. The last long run before the 6 Dec 2015 Singapore SCB marathon. 

Completed 27.06 km in 2 hours 54mininutes 46 seconds according to my Garmin 620 watch. It was a slow run but it served its purpose, that is to train my body to accustomise to running long distances. It boast my confident that I am able to successfully run long distances at about 6:30 per km pace. 

Today, I struggled to finish a 2 hour run, covered 19.15km. 20 days to the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon on the 6 Dec 2015. Not much time left to run much, I am going to try to build up my core muscle group a little the next 2 weeks. Hopefully, this will help me to complete the last 10km a little faster. I am going to try to maintain a very positive mindset throughout the whole run. I am hoping to dip under the 4 hour 30 min mark.

This is the content of the program I just watched on Discovery Science-Through the wormhole with Morgan Freeman-S5 Ep8. The answer to the first question would be likely yes, you need to be in the right environment to make it rich. The answer for the second question would be no, no system is designed to keep people down. Its how parents bring up their children, the parents own level of education, the government policies and the environment they live in. In our modern world, the government play a major role in our societies. Their plan for the country in area of social policy, education and the economy will affect how people live their life. Of course, the quality of the people in power, will definitely affect the outcome of the country. If a corrupted government is in power, its people will suffer. Should the UN intervene with a military expedition and forcing a democratic election in such a extreme case ? Ultimately, it boils down to the mind set of people in genera...

The one factor that will determine our future is technology. What is technology ? Technology is the skill that we develop that will help us do things more efficiently through the tools that we develop. It can save us and can also destroy us. We need to at the same time tame the animal in us, the greed that we harbour, the power that we crave, our self-centre nature. Human only think about themselves and never really think about how we change our environment through our actions. We are all physically the same but the different races cannot see eye to eye and are always trying to control others. We really need to think hard about how we are affected by our mind. Everyone has a brain but how we develop our thinking will determine how we live and our future. We are at a point where we can destroy ourselves and our planet a few times over, but sadly we are still trying to cheat each other and kill each other because of different mind set. Why do we need to have power to control o...

Started out on my run late this morning at 6.34 am, wanted very much to start around 6am to avoid the heat as much as possible. I completed the first 10km in less than 1 hour 2 min but the subsequent 10km was much slower, I completed only 18.73km in 2 hours. In total, I completed 24.32km in 2hour 37min. I think its very important to be positive and confident about your body ability, it will definitely help you to run better. Keep reminding yourself that you want to run well and you are definitely able to run well at a good pace. But remember to practice good hydration and nutrition during your run as well to provide the energy that your body needs.