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"You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement." - Steve Prefontaine

We made it! 100th run

100th Run

Time flies, it is nearly one and half year since the inaugural hosted run. Twenty runners were at carpark E by 6pm. Amongst them are ex-Motorolans and VFI Runners. Alice Lam also made her first run with the group despite a sprained ankle.

William Yeoh was ready with his tripod to take the group picture. This special day was not to be devoid of a “jump shot” to express the fun loving nature of the runners. There were many distances ranging from 3km to 15km covered for the day by the runners. Some take it easy while the others use this as a practice session for their Sundown Marathon event.

HC Gan introduced the VFI runners who are his colleagues. The VFI runners are building up a good running culture in their company especially with Gan joining into the fray. 4 VFI runners were just as ready to do 8km with the majority. I later learned Gan’s running colleagues made up more than 10% of the company staff. It was indeed heartening to know that the VFI Runners are progressing to take part in events like JP Morgan Run as a team.

By the time we are done, H20 were served all round. Nobody could resist the offer from water man CS Chan to drink the lightly chilled isotonic.

The group made its way to the Jumbo Seafood restaurant to have dinner together. This is the first round table group meal for hotrunners. We enjoyed the dinner thoroughly and also thanked the spontaneous sponsor HC for his generosity when he footed the bill.

IT was nice to meet Yanto who is keen in making running a commitment. He has plans to do the half marathon and also set his sight to run a full marathon. He invested in a pair of Newton Shoes. Yanto rekindled his running interest through hotrunner one year ago and have never looked back when it came to running. Similarly, there are a few hotrunners who, after running with the group do feel that they can do what was thought to be impossible for them…. Run a Marathon.

Cecilia shared that she is still running regularly. It was marvelous to learn that her knee caps are not bordering her much throughout the last one and half year of running with mid foot. Her husband also came to the run to meet her at East Coast Park. One positive point from running together was the constant exchange of ideas and information. There is common passion and through it, information is shared constantly to help each other improve. We motivate each other to run. For example, I have learned the basics from William to keep to a weekly run schedule as a commitment plan; the running company helps to make us not waiver to skip the runs.

At the end of the dinner, all were unanimous to look forward to the 150th run celebration. The happy, healthy faces and engaged runners do live up to the hotrunner’s motto: “ Run for Health, Run for Fun, Run for Life”

In this 100th run, I have penned a poem adapted from DH Lawrence, a famous poet. This poem will relate well with runners who have pushed themselves and find gratification despite physical setback.

Runner's pain
“I never saw a runner sorry for oneself.
A runner will drop legs cramped with pain
Without ever having felt sorry for oneself.”

Hot-Runners in UPR: Our 99th run together

el nino has been making no-sense of the weather lately

the heat was unbearable...air heavy, hot...even scorching!!

the sudden deluge over last 2 days finally gets rid of some of the heat

lots of sun...a little breeze...and 8 of us were off to UPR

a picture says a thousand words...so here it is:

all pictures here were taken using motorola milestone.... (Chia and CN not in picture)

HT: told you guys milestone is good...believe???

solarize shot

From Gan: " Time flies. Before we know it, today is the 99th time that the Hot-Runners have been running together. Today 8 of us turned up for the run. During the peak period we used to have around 25 people running together at one time. And we still have more than 60 people in our mailing list. Tremendous amount of knowledge sharing and motivating each others to continue running and to improve ourselves along the way. Thoroughly enjoyed running with this bunch of fun loving and very capable individuals. Looking forward to our 100th run celebration at East Coast this coming Tuesday 23-Mar-2010 !!!See you folks there and we will welcome any new comers as always. Oh ya.... do come in bright lime yellow color T-shirt if you have one."

Singapore Biathlon 13-Mar-2010

This was my one and only chance to take the shot, ed was running damn fast on the home stretch !!!

BokHui, Edwin and Tim at today's Biathlon event in East Coast.

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Commentary on UPR run on 2 Mar
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Today, Booby, Bokz, Chiam, HT and ZJ were at UPR. Yes, ZJ was on leave from work and jogged from his AMK home to UPR to meet the hotrunners. It was wonderful to meet up with him. For me this run comes after a long break of almost 3 months with occassional runs in between. Chia headed back to his favorite route to the pump house with Bokz following soon after. Bobby and I headed out to the 6.2km route. I was running a "cold" and instead of rest, chose to run. I wanted a even comfortable pace to run in.

Bobby and I ran at a steady paced. The run was refreshing for me and help give some quick relief to the cold symptoms. Bobby, ss you can see in the picture, ran with his Burmuda and collared Tee. He was committed to run despite forgetting to grab his running attire.

By the time I was done. I did 6.35km in 42 minutes. Hey, wasn't too bad. In fact, it is better than some of my "ON" days. Strangely, this is probably the 3rd time whereby I want to relax and ended up with a good time. If I chiong, on many occassions, I will be flat by the time I take on the 3 knolls on the way back.

I have a question which I hope someone out there can help. I was in Heart rate zone 5 for about 20 minutes. Pls see chart.Is this healthy? Do I risk heart attack?, Is this substanable for longer distances like for an hour?

Met ZiJing at the rest point by the water. Was happy to see him and chatted abit about his run in Petra Jaya night run.

Chia is consistent in keeping fit. Not only he show up regularly for runs, he also swim too. His last swim was 20 laps in the pool. Always looking alert and not tired.

After the drinks, we set off a bid earlier a monkey was eyeing the 100 plus in close proximity.

Bokz, thanks for preparing the drinks and being such a motivator by hosting the Tuesday run tirelessly.