My 2nd Sundown

From : BokHui
This is my 2nd Sundown event with my classmates. Thot it was going to rain minutes after starting but weather was cool. Was jam-packed first 2km and very difficult to run.
My 10K time was 56min 14s... we then had Ayam Penyet at Changi Village before heading home.

UPR Run on 2-June-09

Last weekend was the Sundown marathon event. The prior week was the PAssion Run. Some of the participants will likely be resting for a few days to a week.

Today 7 people turned up for the weekly UPR run. HT met up with the group at the carpark.
The mighty 7 were Wil, Ben, TL Yen, George, Francis, HC Gan and PH Tan. The weather was nice and the team have a great run today.

HC was pacing behind Ben and Wil. Three of them did the 7km run and at moderate speed. HC commented that at the first half of the run, his heart rate was consistently at 150bpm or below, a very comfortable zone At the heart rate and speed he believe can complete a 42km full marathon. The average speed was between 9kmph to 10kmph.

Assuming at 9kmph the entire 42km will take 4:40 hrs which will not too bad for a 1st timer for full marathon. Looking forward to the Dec Standard Chartered Marathon event.

PA Passion Run Outcome

This year PA Passion run saw a total of 10,000 participants. Not as well organized as the Standard Chartered Marathon event but not too bad either. A lot of Drink Stations along the route which is good.

All our Hot-Runners participants successfully completed their runs as planned.

15km
Tay BH ?
HC Gan 1:33hr
Kuan 2:00hr
Kenneath Kuan 1:24hr
Wil 1:20hr







Jeremy 1:24hr
Margaret 1:40hr
YK Loke 1:25hr
CS Chan ?
Cecilia Yeoh 1:54hr




10km
SC Hong 1:10hr
Alena 1:05hr
George 1:20hr











5km
Cheang 33 min (1st time participant)

6 people at the Track-24 run

Six people met up today to do the Track-24 run...GuanHong, Jasmine, ZiJing, CS, CK and HC Gan.
Two of them (CS and CK) are new participants, welcome !!

Look how energized and motivated they were before the run.

ZiJing and GuanHong were ahead of the pack. All completed the track-24. Thanks to HT for providing the cool tangerine drink after run. He did not join us today as he is still recovering from his flu.

ZiJing showed the team two exercises for cooling down after the run.

1st one is to criss-cross the legs (with knees straigthen), bend the body forward and try to touch the floor with your finger tips. Hold for 20 seconds. Then repeat with the other leg. This suppose to help out the knee area.

2nd exercise is to put one leg (the heel area) on a higher ground (e..g on a chair, table, or etc). Bend your body forward and try to touch your toes with your fingers. old for 20 seconds. Then repeat on the other leg. This suppose to help the hamstring area.

CK is from Penang visiting and he participated in marathon events before. He will be joining the Standard Chartered marathon event on 30-June-09.
HC is very tempted to join the KL event too (still deciding).

Jasmine did half marathon before and the Penang bridge run.



Everyone enjoyed the run today eventhough it has been a very hot day today. The group stay around and have a good chat while cooling down with the nice drink HT provided. The picture after the run is a bit blury but the group are still as energized after the run.

==> click here for today's run data/chart on speed, distance, etc <==

Reminder :
next week Tuesday run is at East Coast Park starting from carpark E2 and not at our normal UPR. 3 or 4 cars will be arranged to pick up from the usual real gate open air carpark area. Last car planning to leave at 5:10pm. Three routes available... 5km, 10km and 15km or any distance between 5km to 15km is do-able.

Two new members joining the run

Eight people turned up today for the 6km Track-24 run.
They are CM Lai, Doris Oh, Allan de T, YS Yun, BH Ong, HT Ng and HC Gan. Welcome Allan and Doris for joining the running group.

BK started the run early at 5:15pm. YS Yun ran from his home and met us at the Track-24. Doris and Allan started the run ahead followed by CM, HT and HC later as they waited a bit longer to see anyone else might be turning up a bit late.

CM has been joining the run group very consistently for Tue and Thu runs for the past 2 weeks. He started with about 2km run and today he was able to cover closed to 5km. Great improvement. Keep it up.

Allan was trying to get a new pair of running shoes. HT and YS gave their recommendations. YS Yun has privilage membership card with SportsLink which will get 20% discount. Whoever intend to get a new pair of running shoes, please contact YS Yun to borrow his membership card to enjoy the discount.

HT is joining the Triathlon in Bintang in May.

Oh ya.... thanks to HC for providing the free drink... 100-Plus.

Tuesday UPR Run

11 people turned up for the run today. No one from materials team turned up today... all very busy this week due to additional workload ?

HC, CS and CM all brought along several bottles of 100-Plus. We used up CM's first. HC will bring his this Thursday for the Track-24 run. CS can bring his again next week Tue at UPR. Thanks CM for this week sponsored drinks.

We welcome GuanHong for joining the AMK Hot-Runners group first time together for the run. HC found out through Facebook that GuanHong is a keen runner and invited him to join the group for the weekly FUN runs.

GuanHong's 1st comment : "the slopes are really jia-lat (tough)". We told him it was the same when we first started running there at UPR... all of us felt "punctured" at the slopes too but now all felt ok and enjoy the slopes.

HC & Janto provided transport from office to-and-from the UPR carpark. Thanks.

HC Gan, Janto, TL Yen, Raymond, GuanHong (1st time joining us), CM Lai, Steby, SokeHan (good to see her again after a long break).
Edwin Goh, CS Chan and Edmund drove there directly. HT still down with flu and did not join.

8 people (!) grouped together and ordered the Garmin Heart-rate, speed and distance monitoring watch. It should arrive in 1 to 2 weeks time. It's a steal at about US$82.00 (recession fire-sales price). Pete Laute and HC Gan bought theirs at US$138 ! If buy locally it is around S$400.

For sample charts click here.

Thursday run on Track-24

Four people met up at office carpark : HC Gan, HT Ng, JY Choo and CM Lai. HT showed up to say "hello" but not able to join the run due to flu.

This is the 2nd time CM joined us for the run. He joined us for the first time on Tuesday at UPR. At that time he did 1.5km. Today he increaed that to 3km, wow... good improvement ! Looks at how Happy he looked in the photo... must be a good de-stress for him and also keep him healthy.

Video of JY Choo and CM Lai below.

HC followed the whole 6km route closely behind CY who has been running very consistently at fairly constant speed of about 10kmph. Very good run today for both. HC felt still have a lot of energy left and he run another 3km back home plus another 1km. Click here to see HC's running data captured on his Garmin heart-rate, speed and distance monitoring device.

When running home, HC met YS Yun
along the YCK 10km route !
A pleasent surprise.

<= YS is one of our elite Hot-Runners... high speed and long distance.

=> HC as usual has been very inspiring and has joined us for both Tue and Thu runs.

Apr 14 UPR for Mong Sze

Somehow, the photo from my new Mot phone appeared with special dreamy effect specially for Mong Sze. Mong means dreamy. The camera must have sensed the day was dedicated to her. She provided the 100 plus and helped with the drinks as well. We wish her the more fun running after her departure from Motorola. Once a hot-runner, always a hot-runner.

Margerate was there as sent off party and to tough it out. She is building up towards her Sundown 42km. Between that, she has signed up for Passion Run 15km.

Wil simply likes to run and have been consistently good.

Pleasent George always there to give good company to all.

We welcome CM Lai, our new hotrunner.

Yip has also signed up for 21km Bridge Run.

Yanto back from secret training in Indonesia

Gan also back from secret Malaysia training.

First photo of Edmund solo in singlet. His motto is also to simply enjoy the run. He did 7km in UPR in 46mins. Wonder how fast he can go if he go beyond enjoyment into the torture zone.

Riess is back in the running with hotrunners.

Run for Fun

Run for Health

Run for Life

Picturesque UPR 7 Apr

Francis Ong was captivated by the breathtaking UPR.

This is Mong Sze.

Smooth quiet runner Will

Pleasent George

Francis has the other pictures and hope he can blog about those as well. The group photo with the picturesque background is much anticipated.

Posted by: HT Ng

2 Apr's Run

After the great turnout on Tue for HC's farewell run, only 3 runners turnout today, YS Yun, Doris and myself so we hit Track 24. Weather was a little gloomy but other than that was a fine day for run.
From : BokHui

Farewell Run for HC Gan @ Upper Pierce Reservoir

Today we arranged a Farewell Run for HC Gan, one of our founding members of this Hot-Runners group. Today is his last day at work.

21 people showed up. A bit short of the 30 that we have hope to see as most of the materials team members were still busy at the office for this week quarter closing.

Thanks to ALL of who joined us today especially the ex-colleagues who came all the way to join the farewell run today... Cecilia, YS Yip, Kim Anderson (our super runner) and BengHwee.

Also thanks for the kind note through SMS, emails, etc for those who were not able to join us today.

HC brought along 4 bottles of 100-Plus and 1 bottle of plain water together with a containter with ice. He will still join the regular weekly run with the group.
We welcome two new members today :- Francis Ong and Pak Lah.


SNAP SHORTS OF TODAY'S RUN

You huh terrible you know. Run so so so fast and did not wait for me...






Why is our super runner crying... torn between 2 lovers ? (we are kidding here of course, do not get too serious over this).










Photos before the run













Photos after the run

Nine people went for the 6km Track-24 run

Nine wonderful people turned up today for a great run along Track-24.

They are HC Poh, HC Gan, Jasmine, Doris, YS Yun, Edmund Steby, JY and a new person from Penang. Last minute HT not able to join us or else it will be a total of 10 runners today.

YS Yun was way ahead of the pack and running solo at super high speed.

HweeChoo and Gan ran together and paced each other for the first 3.5km. HweeChoo did pretty well at speed of above 10kmph which is very good. It was an easy leisure run for Gan for the first 3.5km as his heart-rate are mostly in Zone-3 only (see more of Gan's graphs).








Steby and Edmund paced each other. JY ran with the new guy (what's his name) from Penang and Doris (a new member).
After the run, the team grouped together for a short chat session. HC brought along 2 bottles of 1.5L 100-Plus but without ice.

YS Yun's emergency name+contact tag looks really solid. Cost aboutS$30++ ordered thru internet and imported from US.

Everyone did 6.3km. After the drinking session, HC ran from office to home and clocked in another 3.46km making it a total of 9.76km.

Overall it has been a great run today.