Our 100th posting on this BLOG

Hi fellow hot-runners,
HT reminded me that we have hit 99 postings already in this Blog and said I should pen the number 100th article here with some of my thoughts about this Hot-Runners group.

I started serious running on 9-Jul-08. It was a co-incident that my friends ST Kuan and HT Ng have both signed up for the 24-Aug-08 Marina Bay half marathon events at about the same time. Both asked me to join them. I signed up for the 10km event... a long distance that I have never run before. I have not been jogging or running for more than 10 years. In the first few practise runs I encountered numerous challenges : nausea, muscle aches, KNEE PAIN, heel injury, chest pain, etc, etc.

But with the encouragements and supports from the fellow runners, all these challenges were able to be overcome. HT shared with me the Pose Running Method. Since then I have never have any more knee pain at all. Along the way, I have learned a lot from the fellow running friends. Managed to convince a few of my friends to sign up for the Marina Bay running event as well.

My health has been improving by the days. I felt great during that period of time and created a website to blog my running experience and to share with friends at my blog ==> HC Gan Running Web Site

Having experienced all the good health benefits that running can provide, HT and myself decided to set up a running group within our company (which I have retired from recently). We invited like-minded people who enjoy running or want to be health through running to joy / run together on a regular basis.

Since then we have organized regular twice a week runs (Tue & Thu) for the group. We created a running blog site called Hot-Runners (i.e http://hot-runners.blogspot.com/) to post our activities, share experiences, update major events, training tips, etc, etc. HT named the site as Hot-Runners and I provided the slogan Run for Health, Run for Fun, Run for Life. As of now we have more than 50 people in our mailing list. During peak period, we have 23 people running together in one of our weekly runs.

For those people who do not enjoy running alone or do not feel safe to run alone, this group is an excellent source for them to do their regular runs together.

The Hot-Runners just celebrated their 50th run together this Tuesday 16-Jun-09 at East Coast Park by the sea side. 22 people turned up to run together and followed by dinner. There has been suggestion to invite a CVP or a VIP to join or flag-off the run for our 100th run in the near future.

A lot of people have contributed to the success and fun for this running groups through various actions such as sharing their experiences, sponsor the drinks, co-ordinate the weekly runs, share training plan, running tips, provide transport as and when needed, post on the blog, etc etc. Listed here are some of the people who have made contribution to the Fun and Success of this running group:
HT Ng, BokHui. Edwin, CS Chan, Janto, SokeHan, Catherine, Pete Laute, Reias, CM, Joyce, YK, ZiJing, YS Yun, etc (I am sure there are a few more others which I may have missed out).

THANKS and looking forward to the next 50 fun runs with you all !!