Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Run with a Passion... at UPR

Today, Bobby was ready with his new Motorola T-shirt when I met him at the carpark. It was a good fit for him and goes well with his black running shorts.
At UPR, 6 hotrunners assembled and decide to make it fun by doing classy pose for the picture given that there were less persons to squeeze into the photo. Looks like the ladies are more game for this, guys will have to do better next time. We did our first jump short for the year and off we go at 6:40pm.

Poh was running steady and comfortably alongside. We talked a bit on the way out to the gate. This is a good way to start a relaxing run... must be able to talk comfortably while jogging. Since the pace was comfortable, I decided to proceed beyond the gate at the same pace (8.8km/hr) and did the 6.7km instead of the earlier planned 3.2km.

Bobby did 6.7km as well and enjoyed the run. He will be running his first 10km event via Sundown. "It may seemed difficult at first but after a while, you do a few more 6.5km, doing 10km seems doable," Bobby said.

"I used to jog with my father when younger. My father did a Marathon. I wished to do one too just like my father. That motivated me to pick up running longer distances," Poh said. She did her first Marathon 2 years ago and did a few more thereafter.

Margerat, Tay and Bokz did a quick relaxing run together prefering to spend more time to catch up with each other. Friends indeed. When are met eventually, MacRitchie was brought up again. Earlier, Poh caution about the tough track while CS thought being early is important not to end up running in the dark. Hence back to the drawing board with CS Chan to study a worthy route. He may come up with something as he runs there at 6am on Sundays. The plan is to do 100th run there sometime in Feb or Mar.


We left at 7:08pm. Sure to meet again.

Last week, met CS Chan and was happy to take the shot of him together with his Chicago Marathon certificate. The run photo and certificate embodied a precious memory for CS. He was modest and will only want to share his joy with his running close friends. Well done. CS is also giving very good tips to runner is very simple form... "listen to your heart".

1 comment:

BokZ said...

very nice...when will be my chance....