Haze Alert! No Run for the Week.

21st June 2013.
Friday noon.
Singapore Central Business District.

Abnormality Report:

No Hordes of Hungry Office Workers Looking For Lunch.
Streets Quiet. Air Bad.

Recommendation:

No Running for the Week. Air is so bad that it can deter Lunch Zombie Hordes. Not Safe....   

Scene from WWZ???!?

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Pocari Sweat 10KM Run. 2013

Marina Bay... Before the Haze!

It's a glorious Sunday morning. Why do I say that, it's because this event might have been cancelled, if the haze from Indonesia breached the air space of Singapore just a few days earlier. The air quality started to deteriorate sharply from Monday onwards and for the first time in the history of Singapore. Our PSI level (indicate how polluted the air is) hit the 400 hazardous level. Almost all outdoor events were cancelled for the week, and we were very very lucky that the Pocari Sweat Run is held on this very weekend.

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Bangkok Thailand - Lumpini Park

Everyone loves Platinum Mall. The ultimate ASEAN hub for wholesale clothes. Who doesn't love a bargain!

The lure of the recent real estate rush brought me back to Bangkok again, a city which I have not visited for almost 10 years. The primary mission for this trip was to visit some of the potential property investment. My secondary mission is to figure out where are some of the best spots to run, in this crowded and vibrant city.

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Bishan Park - Revisiting the "Most" Central Park in Singapore (3KM)

A very Big Sign just in case you didn't realize that it is a park

This week, we returned to bishan park, the running playground of big bone guy. To add to the prestige of this event, alcoholic came to join us!! He has been missing in action for the past few months because he claims that he can't wake up so early on a sat morning and is more of a night bird than morning bird. He dropped by this morning because the park is near enough to his home that he was able to just roll off his bed, and stroll over to the park. 

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New Food Center at Gardens by the Bay

The New food center at Gardens by the Bay

We were back to our usual running spot at Marina Bay this week. With the Pocari Sweat run just 2 weeks away, the Unfit runners are gearing up their fitness to meet the rigorous of the upcoming race. The other reason is probably not to "lose face" as we pant and rant to the end point on the day of the race. 

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National University of Singapore - The Killer Slopes of NUS

Two days before the normal Saturday Run....

Me, "So where are we running this week?"

Others, " Kent Ridge? Labrador? Marina Bay?"

Me, "We have been going to these places almost every week! Why not try someplace new! NUS?"

The West Ladies, "Okie!"

Me, "What about Bedok Reservoir Park?"

(Silence on Whatsapp group.....)

*Note, most of the ladies stay in the West....

The Sports Complex at NUS using my new iPhone 5 Paranorma function

Woke up to rain and thunder at 6am at my place on the East Side. However, the Western Ladies claims that there is absolutely no drop of rain in their corner of Singapore. Strange Strange weather. My mum looked at me strangely, when I told her I going off for a run, in the middle of a thunderstorm. Shortly after driving pass VIVOcity, the rain stopped... Real Weird...

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From Chinatown to Tanjong Pagar | From 3rd World to 1st

Sights Along China Town

This week, we explored the historical commercial district of Singapore, the area around Tanjong Pagar and China town. This is not a typical route that an average runner will run and I will only recommend running during early mornings on weekends. There is so many traffic junctions that you need to cross and it is only during weekends, when the traffic is minimal, that you will be able to run across the streets without risk knocking over by a vehicle.

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Kallang Waterfront - 5 Reasons Why Every Runners Should Pay Kallang a Visit

Kallang Waterfront with the Sun peeking past the horizon

The last time I ran at Kallang Stadium, was an accidental 10KM run which I was not prepared to run. I did not pay much attention to my surroundings because I was busy trying to figure out how to navigate my way back to Suntec City. I was dying from exhaustion too as the furthest I have ran ever was 6km. This time round, I proposed to the Unfit Runners try out the route from National Stadium to Garden By the Bay East.

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Mount Faber - Slope Training in the Heart of City

Glorious Sunrise from Mt Faber

This week, we decided to do a crazy run.

Seah Im Market car park => Mount Faber => Henderson Wave => Hort park => breakfast at Seah Im market.

We managed to trick the ladies into thinking that it will be an "easy" run.

The run began with a long flight of steps to the top of Mount Faber.

Than a hilly run along the edge of Mount Faber, with the sun rising lazily over the mega structures of the Central Business District.

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Singapore City Race 2013 - Beer Drinking During A Run is Bad for Health!

The Start Point of the Singapore City Race

The gang were hunting for our usual quarterly, get-our-ass-up-on-saturday-mornings-to-train large scale running event and we encounter the usual, run 5-10KM and a T-Shirt/Singlet runs in the usual running routes. Remember, we need to identify runs that is suitable for all our unfit runners, who comes in different shapes and sizes and aspirations. We finally decided on the Singapore City Race which seems to be the most interesting of the lot.

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