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When going overseas for races, I tend to chose those races which are in South East Asian climate. I am really afraid of the cold. And to me to run in any temperature lower than 14 degrees Celsius is actually too tortuous. But many runners have reflected that running in colder temperature actually improves their timing. This is the reason when I chose some of the oversea races, I tend to go to those which have hot springs!
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The Thailand Ultramarathon is held in the Northern part of Chiang Mai in a place called Pang Ma Ha. The base HQ for the start and the ending of this Trail race is at the Cave Lodge, an eco guest house ran by Mr John Spies. Usually held around the end of the year, November[…]
The marathon was on 23 October 2016 at the MONAS. This was a monument in the down town Jakarta. I had never been to Jakarta, first time seeing the monument was really impressive. The race itself brings you to all the important sights in the city which can be difficult to go due to the bad traffic. The route to say is not that bad as it was mainly flat. However, this time the challenge is the rain. There was a heavy down pour and all of us were drenched running in the heavy rain.
Background The Swim for Hope activity sees the 6th year running in 2016. The origin of this event is to encourage participants to swim for Charity: 1 . The Community Chest SG A large charity organisation in Singapore that supports up to 219 programmes run by 82 Charities , they help more that 300, 000[…]
Because of My Failure in Marathon Du Mont Calm, I was desperately finding another marathon to make myself feel ” better” from the DNF ( Did not Finish). To speak the truth, many of the overseas runners are very strong as they have high mountains and tons of difficult and different types of weather and[…]
Sometimes I feel runners do not really care about their body when they over train or go too deep into running. I will be touching a few things about beauty and health in the next few posts. Although we need to train hard, it should not be until that stage that we neglect our well being whether inside ( joints and organs ) or outside.
A normal, healthy person sheds about 50-100 strands of hair everyday, most of the hair will grow back. Each strand have a life cycle of about 3-6 years. Your scalp will start to show and looks bald when:
The Army Half Marathon takes place yearly for the Singapore Armed Forces to promote healthy lifestyle activities and also part of the challenge for the different arms in the Ministry of Defence. Despite most of the runners actually take the shorter distance. This year the SAFRA BAY RUN feature two competitive categories – the 21km Army Half Marathon and SAFRA 10km Race, as well as two non-competitive categories – the SAFRA 5km Fun Run and Families for Life 800m Challenge. Last year, the AHM took a break because of the Singapore 50th Birthday celebration. But this year they came back better and stronger, with a better route.
This marathon is the one which I have anticipated for long. To speak the truth, I am now kinda of used to doing marathons but maybe the speed might not be that crazily fast. But this race, I just want to take it slow and relax as I know the chances of winning is not[…]
Once a while it is good to let it all go and rest your body. If you look at yourself, the way you run might have already shown signs of deviation and compromising. We got to admit, no matter how good you are, no matter how perfectly genetically engineered you are, unless you are artificial intelligence or Robots. There is no way that you can escape Sports injury. Therefore, good maintenance is essential and we need to be careful about it. Let us look at something about Lactic Acid.
What happens when we exercise strenuously?
We breathe faster and faster to attempt to shuttle more oxygen to our working muscles. The body prefer to generate energy burning the storage that we have with oxygen. However, when we require more energy than we can adequately deliver the oxygen, the working muscles will generate the energy anaerobically. In short, the body will breakdown the glucose to convert to energy using limited oxygen, a substance known as lactate will allow the glucose breakdown. In this manner the lactate level drives up and increase in the acidity of within our body. This is where we feel soreness and tiredness when we train too much or too hard.
July is a local race month for me. It has been sometime, since I do some races in Singapore. It gets a bit routine running in Singapore, because the places that you are run are the same. Usually it is some parks ( commonly the East Coast Parkway) and city area. The heat and humidity makes it not much of a challenge as compared to places with different seasons.