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More than 17,000 fans sung the birthday song for Hello Kitty On Saturday, Singapore’s first Hello Kitty Run took place. This scenic 5km fun run took place at Sentosa, to commemorate Hello Kitty’s 40th birthday. Before the flag off time, more than 17,000 Hello Kitty fans taking part in the...

Hello, world! I'm the Ninja Turtle, and this is my first post on JustRunLah! Although a Singaporean born and bred, I have spent the last ten years living overseas - I know, lucky me. I'm currently based in a city/town (terminology disputable, one man's cosmopolitan city is another man's kampong)...

Santa Claus is coming to town! Thinking of the best Christmas gifts to get for your loved ones, flipping through catalogues to decide which is the prettiest and tastiest logcake, decorating a Christmas tree- Yes, those are what many people do to kick off their preparations for Christmas. Yet, this...

37 more days... ...to Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore 2014 (SCMS) and the organisers have just released the running route for this year's edition of the run to be held on 7 December 2014. It is said to provide a better and smoother running experience for runners as they have significantly...

Run For Osteoporosis 2014, Hyde Park, London, UK I am temporarily based in London for a work attachment so I decided to join this run last Saturday (October 25, 2014) to get a first feel of the racing scene here. This would be my first race in the UK - apart from Singapore,...

Another Sunday, another early alarm. 0345 today, this is getting ridiculous! This time I slept on the sofa so as not to disturb Mrs Strider, and crept around the house very quietly to avoid the dog freaking out and barking at me. This seemed to work out OK and just...

How it all started I'm a relatively new runner having only been doing it since July this year.  I started running for several reasons.  One: to keep up with my 6 year old daughter; two: in a lapse of judgement I registered for a mini-triathlon that required running and; three: to overcome...

Getting to the site It was a sunny saturday afternoon and I was feeling quite skeptical about turning up for the race as it was my 2nd attempt at participating in an obstacle-based event. The first was AAC trail adventure in 2013. I managed to catch bus 175 from Clementi...