This trip was really done out of some crazy idea. One night when I could not fall asleep ( do not know why as I am always easy to snooze), I youtubed for “Holy Mountains in the World” , and turns out Mt Kailash or in Tibetian: Gang Ren Po Che, shot up to be one of them. I never knew such a mountain existed. I have always wanted to visit Tibet for its Potala Palace, but now it is becoming a very commercialized place.
Since 2011, I have been running with Vibrams, the Five fingers shoes which has been touted to cause bad foot health and other health problems. I am not at all born to wear the shoes, originally a heel striker and wearing the conventional covered shoes. I did not like my transition from normal shoes to[…]
Been a long while since I experience serious pain from running. Been trying a lot on short distance speed running lately. The first strain came when I was doing speed work just last week at the tracks. Doing the Pyramids ( 400m , 800m, 1200m at maximum effort ) and coming down. I broke around the fourth set. The pain is something really new to me as I had always been very careful not to over exert, even during longer races, I had hardly experience such form of pain.
Taking running off the menu for the time being since I already did 5 marathons for this half of the year. June has passed rather quickly, taking a break from all the hurt that I had done to my legs, I realised that my old injury which occurred while in my Jakarta race last year had not been fully recovered. Since Ijen, which is my last race at the end of May. Though the race was not considered too tough to many, but I guess I was already getting a bit tired about running, so just enjoying every bits of the trail as I could.
Some Thoughts… On the average I have been running about 4 marathons a year. In the first few years, I still cannot feel the effects that it brings , but now slowly I am experiencing it. One of them is having a noisy cracking knee whenever I walk. Although there were no pain experienced with[…]
Trail Running in Indonesia There are many places in the Asia Trail Masters recommendation in Southeast Asia. Personally, I have only done trail in Thailand and Indonesia, despite Malaysia being the nearest county to Singapore, I have never tried the mountains in Malaysia. In fact my first trail race 42km was in Bromo, Indonesia also.[…]
As pole dancing become more and more popular sports in Singapore, we see more and more individual pole boutiques in Singapore whether online or on racks, sprouting out in Singapore. Some of these shops are either distributing a certain brand of wear or they actually have their own designers and makers in house. Here are[…]
10th Anniversary… Time really flies, when I first did this race, it was 2014 and I was lucky to come in number 4 in the open category. Actually my marathon timing is not fast, but I guess due to the absence of the Africans and being more of a home based race, I was actually[…]
Singapore has many park connectors, tracks and canals for runs and jogs. There is always somewhere for the runners to go to. With our well built roads and lush green environment, Singapore is actually a very nice place for runners to do their usual training. The downside is that being a small country, the running[…]
Being very sporty and active is good but in life, it is all about striking the balance and not overdoing things. This also goes the same with exercising. Which is why there is always a progressive training for building up and finally getting to the desired level of fitness which you want.