Running to the finishing line in the 2006 Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, towing a 10kg tyre with a styrofoam box on top that her friend found in the bins outside a hawker centre, 3 tin cans tied onto the tyre, a plastic bottle (coincidentally “New Water”) and a message that read “How much of your rubbish is trashed?”, Lady Ice (aka Rima) was snapped and placed on the front page of the Straits Times. Her newspaper image has inspired and filled us with awe. “Kudos to the Lady” has been repeated in various threads in the forum.
It was time to find out who “Lady Ice” is and see what she really is like in flesh. She agreed if I’d do an activity with her… I agreed to go up Bukit Timah Hill with her and she offered (threatened) to give me her tyre to pull at the same time. Unfortunately the “Lady’s” mother would not allow her out with her tyre, so I did not get a chance to pull the tyre up Bukit Timah Hill (thank God).
The “Lady” was raised in Singapore and now resides in England. When she is not trying to “save the planet”, she provides consultancy in IT and presents/lectures on IT and management.
Running is not really her type of activity as she prefers team sports like touch rubgy and hockey, which she still plays today. She is also an avid rock-climber and ridge walker (likes walking along knife edge ridges on mountains). To her, running requires a lot of self-motivation which she finds it hard to make the time for it especially when there is no one to compete against except herself.
She is now attempting to educate people about making the world a greener place to live in – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. She has also created a website, (http://www.gfiexpeditions.com) where she plans to document going green and how we can go green without compromising the things we like!
As I panted up the steep hill (her one step is equivalent to 2-3 of my steps!), it was time to tie in the 10 minute interview questions. Read on to find out more about this environmentally-conscious SGRunner.
