Editorials

Singapore, 3 December 2015 - The first-ever Mass Participation Asia Conference kicked off today at the Conrad Centennial Singapore, where industry leaders from the region and beyond – including Olympic Silver medallist Steve Cram CBE – gathered to lend their expertise on various aspects of Asia’s expanding mass participation...

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...

When people think of salads, they think of greens, greens and greens. The fact is that salads have much more to offer in terms of colours, flavours and nutrition. They can be a good choice for those who want to eat clean or simply have a healthier diet. But there are...

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...

Leading up to the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2015, some of you may be starting on your carbo-loading or want to start on carbo-loading. But carbo-loading is not simply just consuming carbohydrates or increasing your carbohydrates intake — there is science behind it and the proper way to do it. Carbo-loading...

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...

Having isolated itself from the rest of the world for decades, North Korea is a place shrouded with mystery and mostly conjectures from whichever information is available on the internet. Now on its third hereditary ruler, this nominally communist state has defied all expectations and survived a quarter of a...