Singapore

I read about this unique event held recently (May 31st, 2008) in Singapore city. It had Marathon (42K) and an Ultramarathon (84K) as the main events, with both starting late in the evening. The Ultra guys probably ran it from after sunset to post sunrise. Amazing!!!! What really stood out was the level of participation [...]

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BIB/DIV: 1768 / M3034TIME: 5h:29m:15s (gun) / 5h:25m:51s (net) It was a wonderful experience to run my 2nd full marathon, and my first here in Singapore. I reached Singapore in the morning of Dec 01, the flight was delayed by an hour and I managed to reach the Race Entry Pack Collection counter at the [...]

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Its time to leave for entering the unchartered waters of Singapore Marathon. Just a couple of days now for putting to peace the unrest which was triggered in August. Its has been 4 months of practice, a lot of hard work for sowing the seeds, and finally the time for reaping the harvest. I still [...]

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This weekend finished what was the last week before the Singapore marathon week. It has been some really lazy couple of weeks now, not too much of running, smaller distances. I ran a fastish 10k midweek to check up on my pace, did it at 6:10 compared to the 6:24 target. Today was a longer [...]

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Yesterday evening, I ran my final long run, and from now on, its taper time. I ran a distance of 34.75 KM as per my Polar RS200SD footpod, which would translate into actual run distance of 33 KM, given a 5% calibration error (my 21K at Vodafone half was shown as 22K). Total time taken [...]

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Less that a month remaining (26 days to be precise) for my second full marathon. I skipped an entire week’s of practice after the Delhi Half marathon on Oct 28th. Did a 27K run last weekend though I was planning to do a 30K. But with no running all of last week, my legs were [...]

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