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The exhilaration comes when you approach the finishing line, with the huge SEIKO timer set up at its side. The seconds tick by - you distract yourself from the pain a little by recalling the time you had started and count the number of minutes and seconds you had taken...

You've got your race bib, checked. And didn't prick yourself while trying to put it on. You've also got your shoes laced up tight, maybe too tight but it should be fine. The first-time for anything is nerve wrecking. A lot can go wrong, some of them you could never...

Ever heard of "7 Habits of Highly Effective People"? We put our money on that you have. It's the same for running. You don't get a BQ by saying that 'you don't have time,' 'running is too boring,' or 'it might injure my knee.' Success is molded from good attitude. Instead...

For those running SCMS 42km, kudos to you! The courage and dedication you've invested throughout your training is already impressive enough. Regardless the results. All runners are different. We have our own motivations, our own strengths and we face different challenges. At every km, how do you motivate yourself to go...

Believing in yourself is necessary. Believing in your training is even more important. You might want to run faster during a long run, but it's important to keep at a pace almost 1-2 mins slower than race pace. Especially so if you're training for a marathon. Now with SCMS coming...

It's more a verb than a virtue. We don't sign up for a race to outrun the 5,000 (and definitely more) runners ahead of us. Neither would we train for 20 weeks (or more) to compete with another runner going faster than our race pace and then, we end up crashing...

When you walk into a gym and see someone squatting with 150kg on their shoulders, you'd think about how much they've trained to get there. You'd consider the sheer impossibility of you ever attempting that, and instead, you lace up your shoes and head out for a run. After all,...

Two nagging desires we have as runners might be: If I skip a few days of training and do one really hard one on Sunday, would that work? Are there any tricks for skipping rest days? In both cases, the answer is no. You can't cheat on training and you can't cheat...