19km Night Run

reached 850pm to west coast mac donald as planned to park the car as we are suppose to end the run here. waited for a while, LT and Tao arrived, we changed to our shoes and wait for kayano to pick us to NTU starting pt.

at about 915pm, kayano reached and we boarded into his car. while reached ntu, there are already a lot of runners there, i am guessing about 30-40 of us. in the mist, we met up with terence, yankee, fennel and xiao di, chatted for while. Soon after. the run started after dusty give a opening speech, followed by his "president" of a running club, welcoming speech.

the paces started off slow, and relax. i did not bring the foot pod, but keeping my HR <150>

after 40mins of run, we are finally out of ntu, i reckon, we just passed 6km. HR is still strong. average about 155. keeping the paces, remember short stride and maintain steady breathing. when out of ntu, into jalan bahar. I couldn`t see my kaki. where is the rest? i am running alone, in the mid of the different groups. so, i pace up a little, to seek the front group. the hr raise up to average 165. running from the back, i found a familiar "back" view. it was Ultraman and his gang. wah.. i am so far in the front? bad news. i knew i am running too fast.

passing ultrman and freddy, i paced them a while until the cemetry road into LCK. i try to break free from them, running faster. only able to keep a distance from them of 30- 50m, i still could heard them talking. but i was alone again. keeping the pace and maintaining steady breathing. i could see my hr at 165- 170, a bit too stress for long distance running. but keeping in mind that i i only wanted to clock 19km. it okay for me.

while on the u turn, i felt really thirsty, but i got no "drink" no choice and i knew there is no drink station along the cemetry run, i knew i had to endure. aupon, on the returning stretch, i begin to slow down a lot. keeping my mouth wet. until the chinese cemetry, ultra and freddy passed me and never looked back. when existing into jalan bahar, my right knee began to ache and felt a bit weak. for this i even slowed down more, hopping that one my kaki could catch up and offer me a drink. haha... reached SCDF, finally yankee caught up and told me that we are stopping at the entrance of ntu. oh good. i need to stop and reorg. after a short while, LT and xiao di caught up. while trying to offer me a drink. we stop at ntu entrance. regroup with the rest of the groups.

after a short break, we bid farewell and proceed to the nearest shell station while the rest power back to ntu. they got another 35km more. we walked to the nearest shell station and buy 2 bottle of 100 plus. thanks LT, this is a life saver. we took a 8 man cab back to west coast, washed up and then proceed to bukit timah for roti prata and milo. bad organisation, but good session.

a night run isn`t as bad as i thought, i am still able to be awake and carried on running. but the body could not take it, i think it is not enough rest before the run. will need to do a few more night LSD before the sundown.