pre-scsm international friendship run

i made an arrangement with shortlegs that she would pick me up at chinese garden mrt station at around 6:30 am. i haven't met shortlegs before, just through the sgrunners.com forum. i didn't know what to expect as this would be my very first run in singapore since i arrived here. it was 6:40 am and shortlegs was nowhere to be seen. i was quite worried that she might have forgotten me and drove away without picking me up! i called her and she said she would be there soon cos there was a tiny problem regarding the van.


finally they (shortlegs & mun) arrived and we drove all the way to east coast park (carpark f5). once we were there, a group of runners were already waiting for us. the sgrunners. they organised this run for the sake of shortlegs (from australia) and me (germany). the turn out was quite amazing, 20+ runners attended this run! we introduced each other with our nicknames from the forum. gee... i couldn't remember all their names, or rather, i couldn't put their nicknames together with the real person. far too many anyway. the only ones that i could guess who they were, were sotong & brokenrunner (aka brokie). after a short briefing from dreamrunner & sotong, our main target for today was to run 20 km!

so we ran. i ran together with realrunner, do & dreamrunner. george, doraemon, fennel & renohtaram were already speeding away. here and there i would take some snapshots with the camera. it was hot. quite hot for me. i guess it was around 25 degrees. a difference of about 20 degrees. ouch. the humidity too. whew.

after about 5 km, we stopped for a while cos brokie were taking photos of us. a rehearsal for the finishing line for the standard chartered singapore marathon in a week time. so everyone would put up their hands as if they had just completed the gruelling 42.195 km run. fun to see this mock -up celebration.

we continued our run again. this time to the other end of the carpark. the weather was killing me. i was totally drenched. worse still, i forgot to taped my nipple and it hurt damn bad. it bled a little. by the way, i wore my new asics cumulus shoes and it was super. strange though, i felt a bit different wearing this shoes compared to my other cumulus shoes, even though they were exactly the same model, just the colour was different. it felt a lot better with this shoes. running towards the turning point was like hell, so hot and no shades. i decided to put a little more speed to getaway from the sun. after the turn, i quickly ran to one of the toilet to get a sip of water. thank goodness that singapore's water are clean, if not i'd be dead from thirst!

even though running 20 km wasn't a problem for me, this time it was really torturing me physically and mentally. the weather was part of the problem. i kept cursing as i ran passed a carpark, where the hell is the carpark f5. it seemed like forever. i was quite mad. kept running and running till i saw some
familiar stuffs. huh, the final destination was not that far. ran towards it but i was wrong. damn. i ran further and finally saw some runners sitting at the pavements. the sgrunners. whew, my torture had finally came to an end. george and doraemon had completed their runs already. minutes later, came the rest of the runners.

later on, after taking showers, we went to have our breakfast at marina square. it was just a happy atmosphere. finally i could eat some singapore food.

pre-scsm international friendship run