Green Run in UPR

6 runners made it to UPR. Francis, Joseph, Margaret, Tay KH, Edmund Low and I. The weariness in all of us is looking forward to the evening run to bring up our mood. We started with our famous nostalgic "jump" shot to capture the mood.

Edmund as usual provided us with his warm and confident smile. Great guy to be with. He was in his mood and did 7km while the rest manages 5km and 3km. Free and easy, run with your own preference has always been the way of the hotrunners.

The short 3km run gave me a good workout and longer time to relax.. I have a bit of time to sit on the ledge and draw in the beautiful sight of UPR while sipping on a cup of cool H20. Eric Tee sponsored 2 bottles of H20 for the runners eventhough he cannot make it for the run. Work seemed to be heavy going of late. Another hotrunner, Doris Oh has given me a box of token to hand out to the runners. Could feel their spirit is with the hot runners in UPR.

Francis Ong was happy to announce that the running sessions have help him lose weight and increase his appetite. To celebrate that, a "before and after" photograph in this blog bear testimony.

Was happy to see Justrun Tay KH in running attire again.. He was carrying a nagging injury which force d him to lay off running for a while.

Margaret-Newton exceeded her goal by running 5km instead of 3. She is trying out her Garmin. There is a glowing feel about her in the photograph.

Badminton Joseph went back to the office to work. He is a high energy person.

All enjoyed the drink. Chatted among us comfortably and were presented with the token of appreciation for being there for each other's company.




Run for Health, Run for Fun, Run for Life

Back to running

What a difference 3 weeks makes! I was away and did not manage to do any exercise. I felt a warm welcome when Edwin met me at 5:30 pm for a run on Thursday 24 Sep. I was glad to be back in the company of a hotrunner. Edwin was in his element and ran quickly as usually... Cheong. He ran so fast that I could not find time to observe his running style. I was interested in his running as Bokz told me about his switch to explore mid-foot running. Before he ran, he happily showed me his investment... a pair of New Balance shoes for mid foot running. (He advised discount of 30% plus another 7% over the $167 retail price.) He seemed happy to have embark on the learning journey to run using this technique. We chatted happily while cooling down with H2O... Run for Fun.

It has been close to a year committing myself to the weekly hotrunners' session. It was a strange realisation that it helped me in my recent 3 weeks of work in Korea. People around me started to fall ill as the strain of the weeks of long hours took its toll. I used to be one of those who would succumb to flu easily but not this time. As Gan put it nicely in the Hotrunners' motto... Run for Health.

Here is another bit of running related stuff in Korea. I met a businessman in his mid forties who shared alot about his return to health through good diet and running during last few months. He was all smiles when shared that he was able to run 10km in 1 hour in his latest attempt. He was curious when I mentioned the "midfoot running thing". I wanted to share so that he have options to protect his knees and also enjoy running with ease. We shared our running experiences during lunch. That was last Friday. He wrote to me that he have tried it out over the weekend. He was keen. ... Run for Life.

Mizuno 16km Run Event Today

Mizuno 10 miles (16km) run event today started and ended at Nanyang Polytechnic sports complex. All categories started at the same time at 7:30am.

The movement from the starting line was very slow close to a walking pace from the stadium until the crowd hits the road. Overall not a very smooth running event as there were several stoppages at traffic light junctions. At certain area, only allowed to run on the pavement and not on the road.

Tim Teo, HC Gan, ZiJing and YS Tun turned up for the run today. After the race, meet another hot-runner (forgot his name).

HC before the run.

ZiJing and HC before the run.

Tim queued right in the first row at the Starting Line before the race started. Zijing and HC has to join the queue at the back and inched themselves forward until about 50m from the starting line and cannot move forward anymore due to the large crowd ahead.

The weather was quite warm but overall, all of them enjoyed the run today.

YS, Tim, HC and ZiJing after the race.

FINAL RESULTS for the 16km run.
6118 Teo Tim Men Open 01:18:10.90 (our elite runner)
8268 Gan Hock Chai Men Veteran 01:42:12.57
5335 Yun Yow Seng Men Open 01:52:40.02
5752 Yuan Zijing Men Open 01:57:04.91
8356 Beng Hwee Tay Men Veteran 02:00:47.16

Mizuno Wave Run 15km this Sunday in AMK (want to gate crush?)

Mizuno 15km run this Sunday in AMK starts and ends at Nanyang Polytechnic.

Want to gate crush? Route enclosed.

http://www.mizunowaverun.com/

UPR Run 8 Sep

Nike The Human Race 10K on 24-10-2009

24-10-2009 Nike The Human Race 10K

http://inside.nike.com/blogs/nikerunning_humanrace-en_SG/?register=true

Letter from India: Will you be coming to our Runningandliving.com Runs in 2009

Dear Carl and Catherine New,

We have a run on Oct 4th - ie a hilly half marathon in Shimla:
http://runningandliving.com/half-marathon-shimla.html
and one on Dec 6th - a flat half anf full marathon in Gurgaon
http://runningandliving.com/marathonandahalf.html
Neither of these have prize money and are organised by runners for runners - if there is any way these could be put onto web forums in Singapore, that would be fantastic as I am sure runners from the world over will have a great time and get good media coverage and all international run in India onto their resume. :-)
Let me know if this sounds interesting to you.
We would be delighted to have you and other runner friends run wioth us
:-)

Regards
Rahul Verghese
Race Director
Runningandliving.com Marathons and Half Marathons


Posted for Catherine New for thos ewho are itnerested to run in Inida or pass the word around.