Tapering Night 22km

Gota work called up in the morning, leave the house at 8am. only got home by 5 in the evening. wasnt really prepare for the midnight run tonite, eventhough it is only a planned 21km LSD.

reached carpark 1 after picking up laser from her home. Tigger, wishbone and her friend is already there. soon after, raven, jancy and her hubby also shown up. while waiting for Tao, I went to top up my bottles for the LSD. Tao arrival with terence, yankee, ronnie and bee. what a big group this morning.

started the run at a relax paces, everyone kept together for the first 3km. Running through the payment towards the coastal road, we passed by many "kampongs". I guess of the holiday on monday, we always can see this set up along ECP.

Tao leading the pack running towards the way, when once into coastal road, Jancy, her hubby, raven pace forwad. while i slowed down a little, as my stomach is unknowingly still bloated. Farted a few time along the way, some just beside Terence (haha, sorry brother) I continue the run, keeping them in view in the front.

reached the fire station, I signal Yankee to reorg the group, as tigger, laser, tao is no way to be seen. while the rest power on. took a drink, the tigger groups caught up, we continue again. The stomach is still farting away while running down the coastal way. we finally caught up with the front.

distance: 9,3km
time: 55mins (run time)

after tigger reorg, we continue to NSRCC via coastal road to make it at 10.5km before u turning. tigger and laser u turn earlier. while resting and stretching, some went off to the nearby toilet. after about 15- 20mins, we continue back to start point.

running back, the pace is faster, wishbone beginned to power strongly, I try to match her pace. while yankee over took us, I run beside yankee, but was unable to catch up with him. after the fire station, was only able to see wishbone. it was really mental, running back to the start point. no motivation and being attacked by the zzz monster is not helping. body is able, but the mind is weak.

4km upon reaching the start pt, raven over took me. I continue his pace back to the start pt. His pace is steady and comfortable. reaching the changi pt, we caught up with tigger and laser. while into the final 1km of the run, i decided to stop and walked. wishbone caught up and walked along with me.

distance: 10km
time: 60mins (run time)

Terence caught up and we walk back together. rested at the payment, the rest reached after a while. asking around. checking with each other, no one seem to have see bee and ronnie on the way there and back. waited a while, before going for our shower. finally saw them after my bath.

went off to paris ris for a light breakfast, we went off home shortly.

reached home, 550am.


5 words to Describe a night LSD

hot, zzzzz, mental, farting, and lonely.

I am not doing night marathon again, like a brother say, it is not healthy to run on sleeping mode :P

it is about 12 days to Sundown Marathon 42.195km for me and 84km to some. I mention to a colleague of mine over a lunch, mentioning to her that i had done some marathon and training via this, she told me, i run a distance equal to a car in full tank already.

No expectation at all, given the training over the months, I am much fitter when i was during Japan marathon. my leg is stronger and natural pace is faster, but i am not targeting it to be a PB or what so ever race of my life. I am just taking it as a training run for Targeted Half Iron man this year and maybe.... 2009 (i am still thinking) you can quit, no one will cares but only you will know :P