Limping Marathon Runner

I was having a lazy morning. But, I thought.. "Nah" .. I should wake up for revision and I did. Caught a little of oldies Cantonese movies on national TV before heading off to MR for the "challenge". A personal test.

Today's run was really a fun challenge. Run 5km in 25mins in MR Trails. I've ran in MR trails before. But, usually not in this part of the reservoir where the intervals between slopes are shorter. It keeps my legs working and my mind guess. Most important of all, the SRBC mini training-racing-makaning-phototaking session again. Renohtaram was first to arrive followed by Carine. Then, along came TLR and most of us deposited our bags with him. I had to carry mine with me because I wanted to take some pictures. We headed to the Time Trial start point and registered for the event. At the same time wondering where is BrokenRunner... Ah ha... there she was... hopping along. I bet she'll be able to qualify. She brought her siblings along for the run too. We did some stretching and some warm up runs before the flag off at 5pm sharp. I could sense the power and speed in a few other veteran runners already. At flag off, we went "boom" .. I was a little excited. Alvo2102 overtook me after 1km or 1.5km from the starting line. I caught up with BrokenRunner on the U-Turn way back and I cheered, "BrokenRunner, c'mon!". Near to 800m left, a female runner overtook me(I only got to know from TLR that she is "Phishy_"). I tried to keep close and I saw Carine right in front before the finishing line. Nevertheless, I did a 23mins 48secs for 5km. It is definitely a good run for me today. I'm in the Tortise category (I thought I would be in the Snail Category). Ha!! Fd came just in time when we finished and we took several shots. Yeah.. I was clowning around, in front of the camera again. We socialised around a little and I met a few new faces. Skyvers1810 and Phishy_. We're a little hungry and headed to the carpark for a few more pictures. We saw Phishy_ again and we invited her to join in for the group photo. Hungry ahh!! Must eat.

We gathered the TPY central for our dinner. But, I ordered a less than spectacular Tempura Udon. Moreover the portions were just enough to feed a cat. Ahaa... Penguin joined us at the dinner. We dropped by at WOS for registeration of Mizuno Run (for those who have not done so). Okay, that was all for an fruitful amazing day. I thought it was over..... When I reached home, went online, these people are chatting in a conference!! Yeeks! While I was still hungry and I grab a bowl of porridge, they called me a pig... hahhaha... What to do.. ? I tend to eat more when I train.

Our attendance for this tiring and challenging slopes run in MR(no particular order):
Skyvers1810, TLR, Renohtaram, BrokenRunner, Carine, Phishy_, Alvo2102 and Balasing.
Fd and Meteor were the pom pom girls for today. Fd doubled up as official photographer and bag jagarer.



I like the shadow shot by Fd. So silly. I guess she was waiting for us to stand for the group shot till she got bored.