PRE RACE
2nd competitive run of the year. 2 10km runs in 2 weeks. Rested the whole of saturday. Probably trying to aim for a PB for 10km. But I have less than 5 hours of sleep. Should be able to better last week NB real Run time. Cos no Sand trail. Share cab with Alex(Cyberkinetic)and his friend (Woon Yen) to Kovan. Went to MacDonalds. The meeting point where all sgrunners supposed to gather. Meet Sanji, Cheow12. Saw DO running in from his home. Then deathscythe99 , Seal came. Then we went to the registration booth to get our lucky draw coupon and goodie bag coupon. Saw Jancy(aka Brokenrunner). Then daisiki came . Then Mark (Balasing), Chris(renohtaram) and ironmandreamer came. Then we tumpang our bags at Jancy’s car. Really grateful for that. Thanks, Jancy. Then decided to do abit of warmup run with Sukaimi(TLR). Then we tried to squeeze in to the front. I hope to get a sub-45 timing. My strategy is to follow TLR as closely as possible. I overestimated my ability.

THE RACE
The GOH pressed the horn. Then everyone started to rush off the finish line to begin their 10km run. As usual I like to try to run abit faster to break away from the crowd. Not very effective cos I am not too fast. TLR was behind at first. Then slowly he caught up and went in front. From then on, I locked on my target(TLR) and try to follow as closely as possible . First time running this route. Traffic control wasn’t too bad. But it really sucks if you are asked to stop in the middle of a run. I was stopped at a traffic light once.Somewhat disrupted my momentum. This route is basically quite flat with only a upslope and down slope near the U-turn . It’s quite an easy route to run. I push myself a little bit too much in the early part of the race. Was always trying to keep TLR in sight. But nevertheless completed. Within my objective. Managed to go under 45mins. Not bad.

POST RACE
Wanted to collect goodie bags . But realise then the coupon is wth Jancy. Searching for her to get the lucky draw coupons. Then waited for the rest of the people for a phototaking session. Got a few new sgrunners who came up to us today. Finally meet the running couple, Lyn and Siong. So nice.. both are medical doctors somemore.Cool! Joggers was there too. With his super pro digital camera. Kay came down to meet us despite not participating.

Saw Alfoo today. He is the sport journalist for Straits Time. Long time no see. He was there to do some interviews. Told him about sgrunners. He seems quite interested. Maybe can hook him up with Sukaimi for some publicity.The Mizuno T-shirt is super nice!! I like.. Somemore in my favourite blue colour .Nice!

Went for breakfast with the sgrunners at a coffee shop. Quite a big group of people.

Mizuno Wave Run (10km) Time: 44mins 36secs.(self-timed).