The Infinite World

My longest run this year 2017 is 16.7km in about 1 hour 43 min. Lately, I have been struggling to run longer distance, find it so difficult to clock the distance. I have to find a way to run up to 4 times per week, currently I run only on weekends. I need to learn how to enjoy long runs, maybe I need to look at my gps watch less often and learn to run easy! 

The best way forward for the human race is to come together as one community, it will benefit all. But, it is difficult to forgo selfish human motives! Get rid of the evil side of human and help one another is the right way for the future. Easy to say it out but extremely difficult to carry out. The evil forces are just too strong!

So far only completed 5 runs up to today 23 Jan 2017 Monday, 10:29pm. I want to run faster this year, I want to run faster than 50 minutes for the 10km, 1 hour 53min for the half marathon and 4hour30min for the marathon. I need to average at least 100 km every month at the minimum, but hopefully I can achieve 130 km per month. I also need to build up my core muscles by doing more push up, sit-up and planks. I need to join a few runs as well to keep myself motivated to run faster. 

Just completed my second run of the year, 10.12km in 1 hour 2 min and 35 sec according to my garmin 620 watch. It was a slow run as usual, I was trying to cover as much distance as possible. I was feeling sluggish, so tried my best to relax and run easy.

Here comes the New Year, hopefully less killing of fellow humans for earth! A tall order for them, lots of work to develop their thinking ! They have been killing each other for too long, a habit that is hard to kick.

I completed my 12th marathon on 4 December 2016, Sunday. This year, the race started half an hour earlier at 4.30am at the same start point at Orchard Road. I reached the event start point early and was in the holding pen by 4 am. I was feeling relax and ready to go, but I did not have high hope as I knew my training was really inadequate. I started about 7 minutes after the elite runners were off. As usual it was a slow first few kilometres, in fact I completed the first 10 km in about 1 hour 3 minutes plus. No problem at all for the early part of the race. Reached half way point in 2 hours 20 minutes 12 Seconds. My poor fitness began to be obvious, I started to feel tired and pace dropped drastically after the half way point. The body started to feel so weak and I kept having the urge to walk instead of running. It was a dreadful feeling, I have to struggle to keep moving at a very slow pace. My pace dropped from 7 plus minutes to 9 minutes to even 11 minutes plus per km around ...

Human should really start exploring beyond their comfort zone, the orbit around earth. A good start would be going to the moon and back regularly, it would solve many of the technical space technoloy needed for further space travel. If human do not make this move soon, they will always be stuck with primitive space travel technology. If they cannot solve short space travel issue, they can forget about getting to mars and back. It is naive to think that they can actually leapfrog the technology needed in space travel. There is saying that says "learn to walk properly, before you attempt to run" ! Everyone know that space is a harsh environment, human are weak phyiscally and need all the basic elements to survive. So there are so many things they need to get right before further exploration can proceed. Get the basic reliable launch technology right for regular launch, at least launch within hours of a initial mission. Get the basic space craft to survive for 30 days, ...

Training has not been going well for my marathon race on 4 Dec 2016, mileage is too low. I will definitely has to take it easy for the run, will hit the wall early. Just has to push on no matter what happen on the day itself. Will try to prep myself mentally to fight against my weak body and I am targeting to finish with 5 hours 15 minutes. I plan to run the 1st half much faster than the 2nd half, probably 2 hour 15 min vs 2 hour 45 min.

I believe the furthest any human had ever been is the moon during the Apollo programme. Human need to venture further than that. Mars is little too far away with our current technical abilities. There is a need to build the technical expertise require for space travel, the current launch propulsion system is too energy consuming and waste a great deal of energy. The system is too unreliable, unstable and too primitive. The resources is there but wasted on other unworthy purpose. Stop killing each other and you will find the time and resources to venture into space. Human need to build something much bigger than the space shuttle. But how to build the spacecraft in space ? Propulsion is always a problem for spacecraft getting off the surface of earth, currently there is no spacecraft that can take off and go into orbit without booster rocket.

Completed the Newton 32 km run this morning in 3 hours 48 min 52 secs.  Started out the 1st km in 6:34 and picked up speed to 6:12, 6:02, 6:15, 6:02, 6:06, 6:08, 6:08, 5:55, 6:00, finished 10km 1:01:25. Slowed in the 2nd 10 km to about 1 hour 5 min and finished 22km in 2 hour 22 min. The slow down was expected as my training has been up to about 20km only. Muscle cramps started about  23 km returning from East Coast going into Marina East, had to stop and stretched the thigh muscle a number of times. Completed the last 10 km in 1 hour 28min plus, full muscle cramp near the last 100m of the run. Clearly, a lack of mileage clocked ! Luckily the weather was kind, could have been an even less ideal condition. Wondering how to tackle 42.195 km on 4 Dec 2016!

The mind is a unique component of any human beings, it determine how they live their life. It's very difficult for a normal human being to control it, they are usually affected by their emotional side that take control from time to time. Human need to really understand how their emotional side kick in and how to control it to prevent it from taking control over their general well being. It can be really ugly when the mind influence a person to be very negative in his thoughts, to the extend that it can even end a life!

Education is the passing on of knowledge from the people who supposingly know, to the people who need to know such as children and adults who require the knowledge to earn a living. Those who teach need to know how to pass on their knowledge and in a proper and interesting way. But sadly, the school and education facilities are lacking in many places. People in developed countries throw away so many books every so often, airlines should offer free space for charity donation of books to these countries that are in needs of such materials.

If you have ever witnessed the launch of a space bound rockets live or on any media, its spectacular with the associated sight and sound. But, is this the only way to leave the planet? It's a fuel guzzling exercise, this is why the rocket is so big, maybe 80 percent is meant for the propellant alone. It's such a waste of space and resources for the space mission. There has to be a better way of getting off the planet! How many people can travel in such transportation mode to space ? The most people getting off from the surface of earth on any mission is six on one of the space shuttle missions.

Finally crossed the 20km mark today, covered 20.04 km in 2 hours 1 minute 33seconds, that's an average of 6:04 per km. This is slow for a runner but I am contented for now. Cannot ask for more if you do not treat your body well, have not been doing much other than running 15 to 20 km every week. I have a 32 km run coming up on 30 Oct 2016, so have to put in some mileage to get my body to ready for the run.

Reading this phase anywhere will lead to the question of how big is the universe, and there are many different views. The limited knowledge that the conscious mind can handle, can hardly comprehend the enormous scope of this questions. If you think the universe is flat like a piece of paper, then it's ridiculous, you ignore the fact that it's probably omni directional. How can it be flat ? It's just too mind boggling for the even most powerful computer presently available, human mind can never be powerful enough to comprehend. Human need to first understand the working of their mind and body to get any further. They need to use what they know for a better cause than trying to get ahead of each other. The focus should never be the individual, human beings are inately selfish. By the way, what does mean when someone says the universe is flat?

Human can only speculate due to their lack of advance technology! At the rate they are progressing, probably can never reach another world. The greater chances is that they kill themselves to extinction  before becoming an advance race. There is no possibility that any living beings would be able to find out more about the universe that they live in. It might be infinite in size, meaning you will never reach the edge! Human needs to understand that it is no use trying to out do your own kind, it's more meaningful and important to evolve as a race that is physcally and mentally more advance. 

Less than 1 percent ? In relation to the size of the known universe, probably less than 1 percent? Nobody can tell and answer this question. There are so much information that is waiting for us to discover them. What are we missing, from the Big Bang to a planet like earth? Imagine what goes on from the bang, probably bits and pieces coming together over long period of time to form the basic part of a planet. But, this is just probably speculation, usually a story is tell over time by adding more and more to it. It's just like a fairy tale, no one can verify. Human will never know, imagine someone started recording trillions of years ago ! But who, no one is there at the beginning? 

Signed up for the Newton 32 Km run coming up on 30 Oct 2016. The last time I did it in 2014, I finished in 3 hour 29min. I am going to really take it easy this time, my training has been really short on distance lately. I am expecting to finish in about 3.5 hours and hope this will provide a good experience leading up to the 4 Dec SCB Singapore marathon. 

Human need to plan for their future, too many mouths to feed and depleting the earth's resources unnecessary. There is a need to develop the human mind to its fullest potential and at the same time maintain sanity. Human needs to control their emotions and do the right things. Stop fighting over petty issues and killing your own kind. Stop being greedy and wanting to control others. After all, you are all the same except your skill colour and stop disliking each others. People need to behave and work together to achieve a greater goal. Human need to tame their wild sides and behave like a civilised race. Human need to get out of their solar system and start exploring the greater beyond. Think more and stop fighting like a child.

It is common knowledge that the average person uses little of the vast capacity of their mind. There should be a focus in schools to help students to think wide and far, in the hope of discovering the amazing ability of the mind! Everything that human needs to know and learn is already there, just waiting to be discovered. There is no possibility that human will actually create anything out of anything, all things are already there and actually waiting for their turns to be utilised by humans. But, humans need to control their urge for power, greed and evil thoughts that they cannot avoid. Human are too weak in the mind, they are easily manipulated and controlled by their own kind. The majority of humans cannot think independently and critically. They still have a long way to go to become an advance living race.