6th 2009 Run

Goodness, a slow start and only the 6th run of the year.

Met 3 of my colleagues at 6:35pm going to UOB for the i-Run. Mr WWScan do 5km in 33mins (or did he change and then said 37mins?). Wow, all are speedsters.

Anyway, got my run going after I reached home. I ran my 1km just before the Sengkang CC at a pretty fast pace. Definitely <8min/km pace. Then I decided to check out part of the Active Run route by running straight over the river to connect to Sengkang West Way, following the LRT route. Saw a few runners in opposite direction. It's weird running a route and not knowing how fast one is going since no idea where is 2km, 3km and 4km mark. I ran on. Walked on Sengkang West Way. It was tough going, crossing the 2nd bridge over the river on Sengkang West Way. Since I had to buy some groceries from Cold Storage, decided to keep going on till Compass Heights. Met Kelvin who was bringing some for TKD class at Sengkang CC. He shouted out "Training hard huh?" with a big grin......I knew I should have continued my run on the opposite side of Sengkang East Way. (Sigh)

According to MapMyRun, the route is around 5.3km. Completed in 38mins:30secs 7.16mins/km average pace or speed of 8.26km/hr according to the auto-calculate function.

Since I am not even close to running 10km this year, I wonder how I will fare trying to complete the 10km Newton Active Run next Sunday, 1 March...............