A "Fool" Print

I woke up at 4.30am. Since no one was sharing the room with me, I could take my own sweet time to tidy up myself. Subsequently, I boarded a small van with David, Janice and few others from Sgrunners to bring us to Lake Garden.

There were roughly about 1000 of participants. I was just in time for a photo session together with Mt Faber Safra members. After a few chats, the race flagged off at 6 am promptly. I ran together with Michael and Yuen. It was a causal run for me. I took some photos as I was running along. Then after, I caught with PS and we ran together for the next 15km.

Whenever any of the Safra members crossed over me, I could clap and cheer them up. The route was full of slopes. You simply just needed to conquer one slope with another. It seems like no ending to it. Surprisingly, I found no difficulties with the upslope. The water points were placed at every 5km. The energy drink provided tasted more like “fruit punch” to me.

After the turning point, my distance with PS widened. I caught up with Chairman and we ran together for the rest of the journey. I saw Stanely helping his Safra members(can’t remember her name). It seems like she had suffered from a muscle cramp. At the last 4 km, Chairman had slowed down. Looking at my watch, I still possibly to make it at sub-3hrs. I picked up my pace and dashed towards the ending point overtaking Albert at the last 500m.

Finally, I made it!! The timing was 3.06hrs. Not bad in view that I had not trained for the race. After doing some stretching and rested for an hour, we had our usual memorial photo sessions. The whole Safra (including Tampines and Toa Payoh) took a group photos.

We walked up to our coach overcoming another slope and stairs. It was more tiring than running up and cruising down the slopes. :(

After packing my things, I checked out the hotel room and went together with Michael, Peter, Xiu Lee, Wayne, Eric and some other members whom I not sure their names. We all settled down at a table outside the shop houses to have “Ba Ku Tek”. In addition, Peter bought a suckling duck from a mobile hawker stall. The food was delicious. Then after, I got some local delights before departing to Singapore together with the Sgrunners.