Date : 11 Apr 2010
Place : Sentosa
Timing : 1:21:10
Supposedly this is considered my virgin "competitive race" that I have taken part in. Previously, I had taken part in a charity run of 10km and an Ah Meng Zoo run of 6km. These two runs were more of some sort of fun runs where family take part in.
Back to my first race, I would say that the route at Sentosa is pretty refreshing and new. In actual fact, I should be taking in the sights and scene of the island. However, I did not have much time for that as I spent most way of my run looking at other runners. The route of the run was designed in a way that there were many U-turns, therefore you would always see other "slower" runners running in your opposite direction. Well, I was looking out for girls of course... ha
Anyway, the route was a challenging one with lots of slopes. The late start of the race did not help as half-way thru' the run, the sun is already shinning brightly, easy to make you dehydrated more easily. Although they have water-points along the route, I did have a slip of water till the ending point as I do not have the habit of drinking along the way for distance under 15km.
With regards to my timing, I was rather disappointed not to do better. I was hoping to do like 1:15. Nevertheless, I managed to finish the race strongly and gain some race experience. Hope to do better in my next race. :)
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
My Race Blog
I got a feeling, deep inside me, that one of these days, sooner rather than later, I will (or already have) turn this blog of mine into a race blog. Why? Basically, I lead a simple life with nothing much to share or dairy. The only interest that I have currently is training for races. Anyway, do not get me wrong, when I used the word "race", it did not meant that I am in to fight for the top spots. My current aim is to be able to complete all "races" in reasonable time. So why used the word "race"? Well, runners referred to all organised competitive runs as races. Some non-competitive runs have also been referred to races...
Of late, lots of Singaporeans have pick up running. You can see lots of joggers everywhere... and surprising, many females are into running as well, just too bad my dear wife is not one of those. The trend is really picking up and of course the major sporting brands and company are taking the opportunity to make a kill. More running shoes, more advance sporting devices, more sponsorship to races etc. One good example is Adidas. They got the so-called adination run across the island and also a run on a Sat whereby joggers enjoy a 30% discount storewide after the run! I joined the last run and inevitably make a purchase of close to a $100. Good business minded there, adidas! Am looking forward the next run to get a new pair of shoes. :p
In the next couple of weeks, I may use this blog as a channel to chart my training. See how first.. haha...
Of late, lots of Singaporeans have pick up running. You can see lots of joggers everywhere... and surprising, many females are into running as well, just too bad my dear wife is not one of those. The trend is really picking up and of course the major sporting brands and company are taking the opportunity to make a kill. More running shoes, more advance sporting devices, more sponsorship to races etc. One good example is Adidas. They got the so-called adination run across the island and also a run on a Sat whereby joggers enjoy a 30% discount storewide after the run! I joined the last run and inevitably make a purchase of close to a $100. Good business minded there, adidas! Am looking forward the next run to get a new pair of shoes. :p
In the next couple of weeks, I may use this blog as a channel to chart my training. See how first.. haha...
Sunday, February 21, 2010
An Update
Been a while since I last updated my blog. Things have been pretty much the same for me. Same work, same boring life and well, having the same wife, of course! However, there are couple of changes to my life.
My new house. Got keys to my new house last Jun. Started renovation not long after. No, we have not engaged any interior designer, but rather we have much help from my in-laws. And thus, after spending some $30K, our new lovenest is ready on around Jan. I must say that I am very satisfied with our new house and we moved in "officially" on 13 Feb, CNY's eve. About 20 over relatives came over my new house and had steamboat dinner. Not bad right, our 4-room flat can hold 20 over people... ha.. Anyway, our new house is like our holiday resort for the time being. We will probably stay over during the weekends first and spend the rest of the weekdays over at my parents time. We will probably move in around Mar.
Another update. I am taking running more seriously now. Why? Now got kakis pushing together. Before, I was like training all on my own. Very boring. Now got friends to take part in races and runs together. Having friends to share how their training are going tends to make me want to do well too. If they are doing 1-hour run, I will want to do that 1-hour too. Like we motivates each another.
Currently, I am doing 10km to 12km per run. I am trying to do at least 3X of that distance a week which will make up around 30km per week. This distance will probably be enough training for a half-marathon we are going in May. Still, I am looking forward to increase that distance. Will probably come up with a training schedule to slowly increase my time of running and distance. At the same time, other than running, I have added swimming in my training. The swim will be twice a week, about 20 laps, during lunch time. Hope that swimming will reduce my injuries and also improve my stamina. I really need to be highly motivated to follow this run-swim schedule. I must tell myself, I CAN DO IT!
Just got a new gift as a wife from my "Born to Run". I selected the book, and my wife paid for it... keke.. Well, this book is said to be a super good read... strongly recommended for runners and non-runners as well... we'll see.....
My new house. Got keys to my new house last Jun. Started renovation not long after. No, we have not engaged any interior designer, but rather we have much help from my in-laws. And thus, after spending some $30K, our new lovenest is ready on around Jan. I must say that I am very satisfied with our new house and we moved in "officially" on 13 Feb, CNY's eve. About 20 over relatives came over my new house and had steamboat dinner. Not bad right, our 4-room flat can hold 20 over people... ha.. Anyway, our new house is like our holiday resort for the time being. We will probably stay over during the weekends first and spend the rest of the weekdays over at my parents time. We will probably move in around Mar.
Another update. I am taking running more seriously now. Why? Now got kakis pushing together. Before, I was like training all on my own. Very boring. Now got friends to take part in races and runs together. Having friends to share how their training are going tends to make me want to do well too. If they are doing 1-hour run, I will want to do that 1-hour too. Like we motivates each another.
Currently, I am doing 10km to 12km per run. I am trying to do at least 3X of that distance a week which will make up around 30km per week. This distance will probably be enough training for a half-marathon we are going in May. Still, I am looking forward to increase that distance. Will probably come up with a training schedule to slowly increase my time of running and distance. At the same time, other than running, I have added swimming in my training. The swim will be twice a week, about 20 laps, during lunch time. Hope that swimming will reduce my injuries and also improve my stamina. I really need to be highly motivated to follow this run-swim schedule. I must tell myself, I CAN DO IT!
Just got a new gift as a wife from my "Born to Run". I selected the book, and my wife paid for it... keke.. Well, this book is said to be a super good read... strongly recommended for runners and non-runners as well... we'll see.....
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Marriage Life
Haha... my blog is actually still alive and kicking....
Can't get to sleep yet so might as well drop a couple of lines here.
Had been married for five months now. And I must say, I really enjoyed at these five months. Life has been good. Love the feeling of having my dear close to me every moment of my life. Simply love the way to see my dear sleep and snore next to me. Love to see her sleeping so soundly every night beside me. Anyway, just love my marriage life.
At the moment, am doing up the renovation of our new nest. In-laws are doing most of the job. From laying the tiles to calling up their lobangs for the air-con, windows ledges, false cellings etc etc.. thus, me and wife had lots less stuff to worry about, except for the money part. A simple renovation and furnitures etc can easily set us back by $20k.
Tommorrow will be going to our new house. Our tiles had just been laid. Excited to see how it turn out. :)
Can't get to sleep yet so might as well drop a couple of lines here.
Had been married for five months now. And I must say, I really enjoyed at these five months. Life has been good. Love the feeling of having my dear close to me every moment of my life. Simply love the way to see my dear sleep and snore next to me. Love to see her sleeping so soundly every night beside me. Anyway, just love my marriage life.
At the moment, am doing up the renovation of our new nest. In-laws are doing most of the job. From laying the tiles to calling up their lobangs for the air-con, windows ledges, false cellings etc etc.. thus, me and wife had lots less stuff to worry about, except for the money part. A simple renovation and furnitures etc can easily set us back by $20k.
Tommorrow will be going to our new house. Our tiles had just been laid. Excited to see how it turn out. :)
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
My One Week Leave
21 Mar 2009 was indeed a special day for me and the love of my life, Yeok Ying. This is the day when we officially and customarily becomes husband and wife. 8 years of courtship and 1.5 years of planning comes down to this single day. A day when we pledged our love for each other for the rest of our life. This was really a BIG day for us.
It seems that 21 Mar 2009 was a hot hot date for weddings. Lots of other weddings were taking place all over Singapore. Just at our hotel alone, there were two other couples hosting their wedding. I believed that this was one of the 吉日on a weekend after the Chinese New Year and before 清明, which is considered not good for wedding.
I was already losing sleep two days before my wedding. I lost appetite for food. I lost 3kgs in that one week. Yap, getting married was indeed a stressful event. Not that I am having any second thoughts but were more worried about cock ups during my big day. I mean, we have planned for 1.5 years, I would not want any major cock ups. I am not hoping my day to be prefect, I just want everything to go smoothly. Another course of worries was my guests. I was worried if my guests would turn up? Would they go to the wrong hotel? Would they be late? Would they have any parking lots? I knew I should not be worrying these much, but that is just me, I simply cares too much about everything that might spoilt my day. For these, my stress level was really high, resulting in my losing of sleep and weight.
So to remove some of my worries, I sent out emails and SMSs informing my guests of the exact hotel where my wedding would be held. Many feedback from my guests were that my wedding dinner venue was to be at the Furama in Chinatown. I do not really blamed them for not looking closely at my wedding invites as most people did not know that there were two Furama in Singapore. Moreover, they both have similar road names. The one in Chinatown known as Furama City Centre is located at Havelock Square. Mine wedding venue is known as Furama Riverfront located at Havelock Rd. So that makes the confusion. Reminders were also sent out to inform that another two weddings were going on during that night which would result in limited car park lots.
After all these were done, we were running around for that one week. Going for fitting of gowns, RSVP our guests, planning and re-planning our sitting arrangement, go for haircuts, go ROM to collect our wedding certificate, sourcing for ties for my weddings, doing up our wedding day programme etc etc etc... really lots and lots of work.
Planning the guests list for the dinner was really the most headache and difficult one. This person wants to sit with another person, another friends got conflict with this guy etc.... then after confirming our arrangement, there would be last minute cancellation of attendance. I am fine with a table of 8-9, but nope for lesser than that. We were still changing our seats arrangement on the eve of our day. In the end, a total of 10 guests from both sides drop out in the last three days leading to our day. No choice, a major reshuffle was done very last minute. I made the decision to combine my friends with her friends. This is not advisable as both sides would felt weird. But then, no choice, because we would not want empty tables.
By the eve of our day, we decided to confirm our guest list. We decided that we should not be bother any more if there were further drop outs. Luckily, only another guest did so......
Went to bed at about 1 am on the eve. Was woken up by my parents at about 3.30 am. It seems that they also can't sleep and was doing something in the living room. Told myself to get more sleep. Was once again woken up my parents at 5 am odd. Hahaha... my parents were as excited and nervous... Decided to get up and get ready by 5.45 am, 15 mins earlier than planned. Later I was told that my some of my brothers gang whom were to help me out in our wedding were already having kopi at the kopishop near my house. Some great brothers I got there... Thanks to all my brothers!
It seems that 21 Mar 2009 was a hot hot date for weddings. Lots of other weddings were taking place all over Singapore. Just at our hotel alone, there were two other couples hosting their wedding. I believed that this was one of the 吉日on a weekend after the Chinese New Year and before 清明, which is considered not good for wedding.
I was already losing sleep two days before my wedding. I lost appetite for food. I lost 3kgs in that one week. Yap, getting married was indeed a stressful event. Not that I am having any second thoughts but were more worried about cock ups during my big day. I mean, we have planned for 1.5 years, I would not want any major cock ups. I am not hoping my day to be prefect, I just want everything to go smoothly. Another course of worries was my guests. I was worried if my guests would turn up? Would they go to the wrong hotel? Would they be late? Would they have any parking lots? I knew I should not be worrying these much, but that is just me, I simply cares too much about everything that might spoilt my day. For these, my stress level was really high, resulting in my losing of sleep and weight.
So to remove some of my worries, I sent out emails and SMSs informing my guests of the exact hotel where my wedding would be held. Many feedback from my guests were that my wedding dinner venue was to be at the Furama in Chinatown. I do not really blamed them for not looking closely at my wedding invites as most people did not know that there were two Furama in Singapore. Moreover, they both have similar road names. The one in Chinatown known as Furama City Centre is located at Havelock Square. Mine wedding venue is known as Furama Riverfront located at Havelock Rd. So that makes the confusion. Reminders were also sent out to inform that another two weddings were going on during that night which would result in limited car park lots.
After all these were done, we were running around for that one week. Going for fitting of gowns, RSVP our guests, planning and re-planning our sitting arrangement, go for haircuts, go ROM to collect our wedding certificate, sourcing for ties for my weddings, doing up our wedding day programme etc etc etc... really lots and lots of work.
Planning the guests list for the dinner was really the most headache and difficult one. This person wants to sit with another person, another friends got conflict with this guy etc.... then after confirming our arrangement, there would be last minute cancellation of attendance. I am fine with a table of 8-9, but nope for lesser than that. We were still changing our seats arrangement on the eve of our day. In the end, a total of 10 guests from both sides drop out in the last three days leading to our day. No choice, a major reshuffle was done very last minute. I made the decision to combine my friends with her friends. This is not advisable as both sides would felt weird. But then, no choice, because we would not want empty tables.
By the eve of our day, we decided to confirm our guest list. We decided that we should not be bother any more if there were further drop outs. Luckily, only another guest did so......
Went to bed at about 1 am on the eve. Was woken up by my parents at about 3.30 am. It seems that they also can't sleep and was doing something in the living room. Told myself to get more sleep. Was once again woken up my parents at 5 am odd. Hahaha... my parents were as excited and nervous... Decided to get up and get ready by 5.45 am, 15 mins earlier than planned. Later I was told that my some of my brothers gang whom were to help me out in our wedding were already having kopi at the kopishop near my house. Some great brothers I got there... Thanks to all my brothers!
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