Indonesia Manado Scuba Diving Trip - Lembeh Strait

Bastiano at Lembeh

Lembeh island, unlike Bunakean, is only a 10 min boat ride from the mainland. Along the Lembeh straits, there are fishing ports, mining activities and factories churning out grey smokes from their exhaust. I was thinking, "Why is this place such a famous diving spot with all these human activities all along the coast?"

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Indonesia Manado Scuba Diving Trip - Bunaken

The View from outside the resort room

Manado situated at the northern tip of the Indonesia Sulawesi island is a major shipping hub between the resource rich eastern islands of Indonesia, China, Japan and Philippines. It also boast some of the most diverse scuba diving experience in the world. The diving group consist of the same batch of unfitters who went on the Pulau Dayang and Aur trip: Crippled, marathon girl and Mr L. This is a 6 days 5 night trip and consist of 11 dives: 6 dives at The island of Bunaken and 5 dives at the island of lembeh. Silkair has a daily flight to Manado and the air fare is pretty standard throughout the year at 450 SGD. This trip is jointly organized by Simply Scuba and Submersible. A short 4 hrs plane ride later, we were whisked off on car and boat to the island of Bunaken. To our horror, we realized that we forgot to bring along something essential for the trip: beer, coke and potato chips, all thanks to the efficiency of the organizers that we did not have time to stop by a nearby supermart on the mainland.

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Labrador Nature Reserve - A Blend of History, Nature & ModernArchitecture

Sorry that there hasn't been an update for 2 weeks. We were off for a diving trip for one weekend and the other weekend, we were detered by a morning thunder storm. Perhaps I will post the pictures of our diving trip in the floor, as this is a blog about healthy living afterall! This weekend, we arrived at Labrador Park for our weekly round the island run.

The starting point of our run.

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Pulau Aur & Dayang - Liveaboard Diving Trip. SeaSick!

Sunset on the Sun Deck

This weekend, we are off for a weekend scuba diving live onboard trip to Pulau Aur and Pulau Dayang in West Malaysia. Although SG Unfit runners is primary about running around interesting spots around Singapore, I think the main objective of the blog is about taking time to workout and enjoy the great outdoors for a bunch of aging unfit folks. So, I will blog about some interesting aspects of this trip, in case you are thinking of taking up Scuba Diving. 

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Punggol Park - Into the Heart of the Opposition ward

Thanks to the strange Hot/Wet weather of the past few weeks, I came down with flu and fever last week and had to take a break from running, while the gang went for a run at Clark Quay. This week, with all the hype about the re-election hype for the member of parliament of the Worker's Party stronghold of Hougang, we decided to drop by the nearby Punggol Park for a Heartland run.

The Pond of Punggol Park. Lots of activites there!

Somebody declaring their love using balloons?

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Sentosa Beach Run - Too much distractions, even on a quiet Saturday Morning

To the fable beaches of Sentosa: We are back!

Early morning sun at central beach station

The last time we were here, we were trapped in the rain for the entire morning. This time round, the weather was sunny with very little evidence of any storm clouds over the horizon. On the other hand, the weather was scorching hot and we regretting not bringing out sunglasses, sunblock and caps out for the run. Starting out at the McDonalds, we worked our way towards Palawan beach and Sentosa cover, planning to turn back when we reached the turning point for the tram and back to the other end at Rasa Sentosa.

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Marina Bay Waterfront - Into the Heart of Singapore

After taking a break last week at Batam, the gang is back in force this week to challenge the Marina Bay area. The freak weather of May is really getting to us as it rains and shines unpredictably almost every other day. It is no different that morning as a heavy downpour made us doubt if we can carry out the run on Saturday morning.

Start Point at Youth Olympic Park

Looks like the Gods are with us this week as the rain let up just before the guys gathered at Promenade MRT station for the run. The weather was cooling and windy and there was little sun to be seen, much to the delight of the ladies who wanted to keep out of those wrinkles inducing UV rays. We took off running from the Youth Olympic Park across the helix bridge, and we were pleasantly surprised by the numbers of runners there are in this area. There were good looking hunks and babes doing their workout too, so the scenery is a delight for both the guys and ladies.

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Bedok Reservoir Forefoot Run Practise - Guess the no of CuddlingCouples?

Now that my calves were 80% recovered, I decided to go for another practice run using forefoot run. This time, I do my normal Bedok Reservoir running route minimizing the heroism of exploring new routes and taking photos at the same time. Did forefoot run for 3 km before feeling the strain on the calves again. Back to heel running for the rest of the distance. My pace did jumped below 7min/km in the first 2 km and I barely felt any breathlessness after the 4.4km run. This is an interesting running technique. More practices to come. 

My poor poor calf...

Counted: 5 couples eating each others' face. 1 man talking to his dog by the moonlight waters.

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Batam Waterfront City - Cable Skiing, Non-Existence Running Tracks

This weekend, we ventured to Batam Waterfront and tried out the Cable Ski Park! Since our weekly run in Singapore had been cancelled due to the Batam trip, I decided to take a bit of initiative to do an exploratory run around Harris Resort, where we decided to stay for a night.

The very nice pool at Harris. Swimming is friendlier than Running!

 A short introduction to our Cable Ski activities since it involves Unfit Runners doing some upper body workout. I guess the videos will give the readers a good idea how well we fared during our first tryouts at cable skiing.

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Bedok PCN - Exploring, Fore Foot Running, PAIN!

Bedok Park Connector Network is part of the legendary Eastern Region PCN that connects the entire eastern part of Singapore. Bedok Reservoir Park is centrally located in this PCN connecting Pasir Ris to East Coast Park. My runs are generally focused around the Reservoir and I haven't started exploring the surround areas yet so I thought that it was time to try as my stamina was getting better.

Welcome to Bedok Park Connector!

My best buddy who got hang of my recent running efforts, sent me this video to encourage me to try out a new running method: forefoot running.

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