Personal

As stated in my blog, the whole intent and purpose of starting a running blog for myself is to serve as a mean for archiving my race records. Here goes my Personal Performance Review for 2013. Total Race Participated: 11 Total Race Completed: 9 Total Race Mileage: 161km Total Time Taken: 16hrs 56mins Average...

I had been running Army Half Marathon (AHM) since 2003, and had completed my first Standard Chartered Marathon in 2006, however they were done without much proper training. In 2013, I started to participate races regularly (almost every month), and also started to train regularly to prepare myself for...

I have never been a fan of running in a gym on a treadmill. Why will you want to stare at the same landscape (or a video drama) for a hour or so, when there are tons of beautiful places around the world to experience and enjoy while out...

We ran, we jogged, we walked and finally limped, but we made our personal bests! - John Neilson Eight hours and forty-five minutes in the chair; waving the invisible Team Costa flag for my husband and my friends who were tackling the Twilight Ultra for the first time.  That's with...

The Oster® Brand Promise:  Performance. Versatility. Durability As a smoothie junkie, I like to have gadgets that are fast, space efficient, easy to clean and convenient to handle.  The Oster MyBlend delivers on all four criteria plus more and finally supersedes my hand held blender with its open beaker, a...

4th time lucky When you sign up for a race 3 times and don’t get to run it – you probably don’t have much luck with it. In 2012 and 2013, it was due to being overseas because of work while in 2014 it was due to the inclement weather....

It's sunday, it's early and the alarm has gone off. It must be race day! Here we go again, after a few weeks off to recover from my Translantau 50k Trail Ultra experience, I am back pounding the pavement over the shorter distances. No 2XU last weekend, so this is...

Race Day The flag off was at 5am.  I had to wake up at an unearthly hour of 3am, grabbed my breakfast and was on my way out of the house by 3.30am.  I reached the venue (F1 Pit Building) at about 4.10am.  The first thing was to pay a...