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SY
This journal chronicles my running journey since 2014 when I first started running for a reason.
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            “Anniversary” Run at SCSM 2017 [10km] (by SY)
                                                        
                                                            
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                    The Offer
For want of a better name, I decided to title this post “Anniversary Run” for a good reason.  Back in Dec 2014, I...
                    
                                    
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            Comeback Run: The Performance Series 2017 – Race 3 @ Changi (by SY)
                                                        
                                                            
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                    “An escape from the stopwatch tyranny of PBs and split times, this (the book) is a reminder of how to run for sheer joy.”...
                    
                                    
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            “ENCORE” (The Performance Series 2016 – Race 5, Farm)
                                                        
                                                            
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                    When the last is not the last, you get the encore.
This race was not supposed to happen.  YOLO run was supposed to be the...
                    
                                    
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            Race Review: YOLO Run 2016 [10 km] (by SY)
                                                        
                                                            
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                    YOLO - You Only Live Once
This term #yolo is familiar to most in the younger generation; expressing the need to 'seize the day' and to live...
                    
                                    
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            Celebrating Running
                                                        
                                                            
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                    If my memory serves me well, it was August 1995.
It was then called the Sheares Bridge Run, also organised by the Army with the...
                    
                                    
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            Race Review: Pocari Sweat Run 2016 [5km] (by SY) – Slow but Strong
                                                        
                                                            
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                    Sickness and injury are the twin nemesis of all runners.  Once you are hit with either of these, it takes humility to accept the...
                    
                                    
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            Race Review: OSIM Sundown Marathon 2016 [5KM] (by SY)
                                                        
                                                            
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                    We are LIMITLESS!
The theme for this year's OSIM Sundown Marathon sounds inviting - LIMITLESS.
There are two ways to look at this.  If you are...
                    
                                    
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            Mind the Runner
                                                        
                                                            
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                    No matter how many training runs you had or how many races you joined, the thoughts that run (pun intended) through a runner’s mind...
                    
                                    
