It was SS17 perimeter for all the runs we did this week.
Run 1 (Tuesday, 24th)
Distance: 2.65 km
Total time: 18 minutes (this is just an estimate, as somebody forgot to press start on his stopwatch...)
Average speed: 8.83 kmph
Run 2 (Thursday, 26th)
Distance: 2.65 km
Total time: 19:23 minutes
Average speed: 8.2 kmph
Apologies for going back on our words about joining you guys for Treakathon. It sounded like fun until I heard it was going to be muddy and slippery and possibly dangerous :(
We went for a run in the evening instead :)
Run 3 (Saturday, 28th)
Distance: 2.65 km
Total time: 19:32 minutes
Average speed: 8.14 kmph
For the second and third run, I actually wanted to extend to 4 km, but due to the falling dusk, it didn't seem very safe to continue my run. (Shaun did manage 4 km in the second run though).
Hmm if my estimation for the first run is correct, then it seems that my speed has slowed down a bit from first to the last run. A bit of a bummer there. Even so, I'm extremely pleased with myself because I have finally managed to overcome the mental block and ran through the course, no stopping whatsoever :D
Monday, March 30, 2009
Nellie: Week 6 (Run 1 & Run 2)
The first run on Tuesday following our 5km marathon.
Week 6 (Run 1)
Distance: 2 km
Total time: (wasn't keeping time)
Average speed: Unknown
We ran the perimeter of SS17 but couldn't complete the entire course. Kinda expected this as we were probably still recovering from the massive workout two days before (5 km AND THEN futsal to top it off).
Decided to give our muscles a short break after that, so our next run was on Friday instead of our usual Thursday. However, instead of just a regular run we did fartleks and attempted a really short run after that (short because we were already so beat after the fartleks).
Week 6 (Run 2)
Fartlek distance: 310 m * 7 laps = 2.17 km
Total time: About 16 minutes
Average speed: 8.14 kmph
Run distance: 0.82 km
Total time: 4 minutes
Average speed: 12.3 kmph
Week 6 (Run 1)
Distance: 2 km
Total time: (wasn't keeping time)
Average speed: Unknown
We ran the perimeter of SS17 but couldn't complete the entire course. Kinda expected this as we were probably still recovering from the massive workout two days before (5 km AND THEN futsal to top it off).
Decided to give our muscles a short break after that, so our next run was on Friday instead of our usual Thursday. However, instead of just a regular run we did fartleks and attempted a really short run after that (short because we were already so beat after the fartleks).
Week 6 (Run 2)
Fartlek distance: 310 m * 7 laps = 2.17 km
Total time: About 16 minutes
Average speed: 8.14 kmph
Run distance: 0.82 km
Total time: 4 minutes
Average speed: 12.3 kmph
Sunday, March 29, 2009
My first trekathon... :P
And what a bloody trekathon it was... :)
Despite the rain... I was quite pumped up about it as it had been ages since I had been trekking..
Anyway.. initially, they started off by saying that girls start 5 mins later.. After all the girls were at the back of the line, the organisers changed their minds and said, everyone start together... It was a bit of a bummer cause with the slower guys holding up the rest, some of us were caught... And some of the girls were standing in the side lines had to push our ways through the moving crowd.. Kept getting caught behind people who had been running but abruptly stopped and started waling..
Arrived at the bridge and god, was the line loooong... Had to wait in line (longer than a cinema line, mind you)... I think I waited in line for a bout 5-7 minutes... Then, started the trek up the first uphill phase... Wasn't sooo bad.. Was panting at the end though... Slipped at a muddy area, but was fine.. Started the downhill trek with a bunch of girls crawling at snail pace... Tried to overtake them but they were all over the place...
Arrived at the stream and the girls were scared of the water (heehehe), so managed to swerve past them and jogged and walked my way through the stream... Was the nicest part of the whole race... Half way through the stream, some of the guys in front of me though they were lost and weren't sure where to go... I thought I was lost as well, but I kept following the stream...
Then began the monumental task of the 2nd uphill trek... The initial parts weren't so bad... Half way through, I took a break and was talking to some guys from the Business dept about what a bitch of the trek this was... :P Started singing to myself to keep motivated to continue.. About 200m away from the finish line, I start feeling faint, was seeing spots and felt like throwing up... Decided to sit down and take a rest... One of our former classmates (Yan Ling) was nice enough to come back and check up on me... :) After the rest, felt much better and started the final trek.. Was tough, but I could hear people's voices so I kept at it... What a relief it was to see the road... Took my number and met the rest of the gang (who were feasting already..)
It sucked being caught behind all those people... Lesson learnt: Don't be too nice in a run and don't wait for others who are taking their time...
Time: 57 minutes
Distance: not sure.. but according to Josephine, about 2-3km
Overall female standings: 104 (would have been less if I hadn't stopped for the break)
Staff ranking: 6
Oh well... It was my first hill run and my first trek in years... Was an interesting experience...
Now I'm actually looking forward to the 7k run as it'll probably not be as painful as this one... :P
Despite the rain... I was quite pumped up about it as it had been ages since I had been trekking..
Anyway.. initially, they started off by saying that girls start 5 mins later.. After all the girls were at the back of the line, the organisers changed their minds and said, everyone start together... It was a bit of a bummer cause with the slower guys holding up the rest, some of us were caught... And some of the girls were standing in the side lines had to push our ways through the moving crowd.. Kept getting caught behind people who had been running but abruptly stopped and started waling..
Arrived at the bridge and god, was the line loooong... Had to wait in line (longer than a cinema line, mind you)... I think I waited in line for a bout 5-7 minutes... Then, started the trek up the first uphill phase... Wasn't sooo bad.. Was panting at the end though... Slipped at a muddy area, but was fine.. Started the downhill trek with a bunch of girls crawling at snail pace... Tried to overtake them but they were all over the place...
Arrived at the stream and the girls were scared of the water (heehehe), so managed to swerve past them and jogged and walked my way through the stream... Was the nicest part of the whole race... Half way through the stream, some of the guys in front of me though they were lost and weren't sure where to go... I thought I was lost as well, but I kept following the stream...
Then began the monumental task of the 2nd uphill trek... The initial parts weren't so bad... Half way through, I took a break and was talking to some guys from the Business dept about what a bitch of the trek this was... :P Started singing to myself to keep motivated to continue.. About 200m away from the finish line, I start feeling faint, was seeing spots and felt like throwing up... Decided to sit down and take a rest... One of our former classmates (Yan Ling) was nice enough to come back and check up on me... :) After the rest, felt much better and started the final trek.. Was tough, but I could hear people's voices so I kept at it... What a relief it was to see the road... Took my number and met the rest of the gang (who were feasting already..)
It sucked being caught behind all those people... Lesson learnt: Don't be too nice in a run and don't wait for others who are taking their time...
Time: 57 minutes
Distance: not sure.. but according to Josephine, about 2-3km
Overall female standings: 104 (would have been less if I hadn't stopped for the break)
Staff ranking: 6
Oh well... It was my first hill run and my first trek in years... Was an interesting experience...
Now I'm actually looking forward to the 7k run as it'll probably not be as painful as this one... :P
Asha: Week 10
Did one run this week, in prep for the trekathon...
Distance: 1.42km
Time: 14 minutes
Speed: 6.086 km/h or 3.804 mph
Distance: 1.42km
Time: 14 minutes
Speed: 6.086 km/h or 3.804 mph
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Help Treakathon 2009
Hehehe....run xp follows....(p.s. wonder where the rest of you guys were...TTDI was represented by Siew Li alone...whereas lake gardens was represented in full...with a possible new convert too~! =P).....
Things begin the day before....a lovely storm that danced along portended a wet muddy trail come the day after....=\
Cue day itself...got up early.*groans*...got to college...took a ride over to the hill proper....time....7:30....race begins? 9am...groans.....hang around chatting and waiting impatiently.....jogged for a couple hundred meters to warm up before the run itself....race time!...we walk about 300-400 meters away from the hill itself....hang around waiting again...the usual announcements....bit of a thing with the female timings (ash/siew/joa/ will probably elab)...on your mark get set go!....mad dash towards the hill.....feels slightly strange to be madly dashing in a pack of people towards a lone hill in the distance....reach turnstile where lines wait patiently....no time for lines!...dash and duck under fence bars....dash dash....damn the mud....almost slip as a silly bugger in front of me slows down....spin past him...reach the bridge...and the dreaded single file uphill bit....damned slow line....climb up slowly....hoorah double lane...dash past people....run run run...downhill bit...trapped behind limp wristed afraid to fall dudes....patiently wait for the op to bypass each one....uphill bit....whew...haven't been running hills in ages....river!....run in the middle of the river against the current....luckily enough it's only about ankle deep.....bypass quite a few buggers....ooo uphill again....i wonder how long before it levels up...jog up jog up....bugger this...does it ever level up?...trek up trek up....great...i think it nvr does....it's gonna be like this till the end isn't it?....wish i had known...would have conserved energy at the start if i did....climb over trunks...push pass annoying branches....finally out!....finish line!....dash down staff lane...what? wrong lane?...dash back...and dash down another...what wrong lane?....dash back and down the third...collect a number....what? you're staff....ahh then the first lane was the right one......bugger this lot....end of race!.....collect water...glug while waiting for the next runners to come in.....the next baton goes to Joa so i'll let her tell her story....
Overall distance : have no idea...too much uphill and curves and water to really get a good measure....
Overall time : Including the 300-400m bit....20 minutes and a bit....
Overall Ranking : 17th place (out of all the departments and genders)
Male Ranking : 17th place
Staff ranking : 1st...though the commander didnt run this time around so i was one of only 2 male runners on the trek.....
Department (Bpsych) Ranking : 3rd (including both male and female runners)
All in all...a great run xp....havent run hills in ages....was nice tackling one.....kudos to all runners!.... =D...
wonder why they had that bit before the hill proper....we cant actually compare times with treks from previous years (assuming the same route was used) since there's that addition there... =\
Things begin the day before....a lovely storm that danced along portended a wet muddy trail come the day after....=\
Cue day itself...got up early.*groans*...got to college...took a ride over to the hill proper....time....7:30....race begins? 9am...groans.....hang around chatting and waiting impatiently.....jogged for a couple hundred meters to warm up before the run itself....race time!...we walk about 300-400 meters away from the hill itself....hang around waiting again...the usual announcements....bit of a thing with the female timings (ash/siew/joa/ will probably elab)...on your mark get set go!....mad dash towards the hill.....feels slightly strange to be madly dashing in a pack of people towards a lone hill in the distance....reach turnstile where lines wait patiently....no time for lines!...dash and duck under fence bars....dash dash....damn the mud....almost slip as a silly bugger in front of me slows down....spin past him...reach the bridge...and the dreaded single file uphill bit....damned slow line....climb up slowly....hoorah double lane...dash past people....run run run...downhill bit...trapped behind limp wristed afraid to fall dudes....patiently wait for the op to bypass each one....uphill bit....whew...haven't been running hills in ages....river!....run in the middle of the river against the current....luckily enough it's only about ankle deep.....bypass quite a few buggers....ooo uphill again....i wonder how long before it levels up...jog up jog up....bugger this...does it ever level up?...trek up trek up....great...i think it nvr does....it's gonna be like this till the end isn't it?....wish i had known...would have conserved energy at the start if i did....climb over trunks...push pass annoying branches....finally out!....finish line!....dash down staff lane...what? wrong lane?...dash back...and dash down another...what wrong lane?....dash back and down the third...collect a number....what? you're staff....ahh then the first lane was the right one......bugger this lot....end of race!.....collect water...glug while waiting for the next runners to come in.....the next baton goes to Joa so i'll let her tell her story....
Overall distance : have no idea...too much uphill and curves and water to really get a good measure....
Overall time : Including the 300-400m bit....20 minutes and a bit....
Overall Ranking : 17th place (out of all the departments and genders)
Male Ranking : 17th place
Staff ranking : 1st...though the commander didnt run this time around so i was one of only 2 male runners on the trek.....
Department (Bpsych) Ranking : 3rd (including both male and female runners)
All in all...a great run xp....havent run hills in ages....was nice tackling one.....kudos to all runners!.... =D...
wonder why they had that bit before the hill proper....we cant actually compare times with treks from previous years (assuming the same route was used) since there's that addition there... =\
Upcoming Runs and Deadlines
2 April - BHP deadline (tgh the 3000 limit may already have been hit. =\ )
10 April - Registration deadline for graveyard run (Rm 15)
12 April - BHP run (free) (11k)
18 April - Early bird registration for the Std. Chartered run (rm 40)
26 April - Graveyard Run (7k)
10 May - Larian bersama bomba anyone? (usually a 10k affair with placings for the top 50/75...not sure if i'll be ready to run for placing come may tgh...=\ )
1 June - Normal period registration for the std.chartered run (50)
15 June - late period for the std chartered run (60)
28th June - Std. Chartered run (10k?)
I'm assuming that we'll be going for the 10k run in the std?.. :P....that should be the aim for this year mid...if we're planning to run a full next year....heheheh~
10 April - Registration deadline for graveyard run (Rm 15)
12 April - BHP run (free) (11k)
18 April - Early bird registration for the Std. Chartered run (rm 40)
26 April - Graveyard Run (7k)
10 May - Larian bersama bomba anyone? (usually a 10k affair with placings for the top 50/75...not sure if i'll be ready to run for placing come may tgh...=\ )
1 June - Normal period registration for the std.chartered run (50)
15 June - late period for the std chartered run (60)
28th June - Std. Chartered run (10k?)
I'm assuming that we'll be going for the 10k run in the std?.. :P....that should be the aim for this year mid...if we're planning to run a full next year....heheheh~
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