tropical sunrise is even better than banana and chocolate...my goodness
ahm results are out...my timing would have earned me a 110+th placing if i used the 1hr45min i agar for myself with all the traffic stoppages...a 130+th placing if i used my watch's 1hr47min...a 202+th placing if i follow the official clock time...hohohoho
real run results are out...i came in 52nd..with official timing of 43.15(net time) and 43.53(total time)...no idea why got 2 timings though
so i gate-crashed today's ahm...and guess what i got at the finishing pt...
apparently the guy handing out the medals didnt notice i was missing a number tag...hohoho...
suuuuuuuuuuuuuuper crowded at the start pt today...by the time i reached there i was way at the back with the non-competitive 21km group...the competitive one was flagged off earlier...there was no way i could squeeze to the front...
even after the non-comp. 21 was flagged off, i had to walk like a few min before i even passed the start point...it was THAT packed...and after that there was no way of running fast fast with all the human traffic...everyone was at crawling speed...i had to zig zag here and there to negotiate my way pass other runners...
left knee was abit painful today...but still bearable...got hungry after leaving east coast park...ohoh...the funniest thing today shld be how some of the runners just ran straight to the huge longkang at the side once entering ecp and started to pee...i was also one of those pee-ers...hehe...high tide...
so apart from the human traffic...there was also the car traffic...there were many junctions where the traffic police had to stop us to let the cars move...i think i was stopped about 5 times...
so anyway the official timing was 1hr 51min...my watch read 1hr 47min...but with all the numerous stops and slow crawl at the beginning i would say i can take 5min off my watch timing no? haha...
but all in all i was very pleased with my run today...i actually ran non-stop!! when i did ahm during my army days i think i stopped dunno how many times...still, today's run was veeerrryy tiring...i can just imagine how 42km will feel like...
woopie
this whole work week was longer than usual all thanks to the procert course......i gave my 1st presentation at TOS during the close out of our course today...my group was lucky to be the last few teams presenting...all the qns from the floor were pretty much exhausted after the first few presentations...
so i got lucky...no need to answer any daunting qns...hoho
my leave application got rejected...my boss reasoned that his policy is non-confirmed employees not allowed to take leave...otherwise how to gauge my performance for confirmation he added...
that remark got me worried all over again...i havent exactly been accomplishing much at work recently...always waiting for parts to measure...waiting for pple to be ard...waiting for answers...searching for answers...answers which are always never there when i need them...measurement and experiment outcomes always not happening the way i want them to happen...kaoz...
all the assignments are like always left hanging in mid-air...dont exactly want to give my supe and boss the impression that i havent been pulling my weight at work...but at the rate things are going-it just doesnt paint a very pretty picture...
so no more kota kinabalu trip for me...now more worried abt getting my confirmation which is tentatively due on oct3rd...
anyway...here are more pics of my force impulse (as requested by Rin) and gouf ignited which i fixed up last week...gouf's shield havent been painted yet though...which brings to mind how annoying it is to paint my kits nowadays with my current bottles of gunze sangyo...almost all spoiled after t-loaning them out to my fren...need to replenish with red, field grey, grey, yellow...
for some reason i was very psyched up during this evening's run(despite having to start quite late)...i guess having set myself a base timing for my last tanglin route run i wanted to see how much i improved...
today's timing-42.44...only a little bit faster only...haha...shite...for a moment there (during the run) i really thought i could shave off a min or 2...oh well...any form of improvement is good no? adrian will do better next wk!
muay asked me today if i wanted to join her and her friends to go climb mt kinabalu in oct...rather keen on going cus i want to go on a holiday real bad (even though muay said it wld be a shiong "holiday" hehe)
hope my leave application goes through though...cus it's about time this frog left it's well!!hohoho
woke up at 6.05 today...had coffee+oats+1egg...took 2 dumps...stretched and took a slow warm up run to outram mrt...met up with tang and choo before making our way to sentosa...
SUPER crowded...good thing abt it was got lotsa sporty chicks around to beo...hohoho...bad thing was we were waaaayyyyy at the back when waiting for the race to start...
i shaved off 2 min to get to the checkpt before the sand part...was quite happy...BUT the damn sand was a killer today...all the way soft...even at the parts when the seawater washed up...legs were so damn tired after the sand route...
my watch read 43.15 at the finish...the official timing was abt 42++i think...anyway the timing will be printed on the cert...
gulped down 3 cans of 100+ before we left...hoho...
good run on the whole...was pretty tired but at least timing improved a little from the trng run 2 sundays ago...looks like the interval trng did pay off a little...shite...if only i did and completed the intervals properly...could have been slightly better no?
will be crashing next sunday's ahm...heh...let's see how 21km feels like after a break of 5yrs
boss kevin asked whether i wanted to work on saturdays...i thought why not since i'm free anyway...
so it was 8.15-3.30 downstairs today...some extra pocket money for me!! hohoho...next wk might be sent to brandon's (boss kevin's younger brother) place to set up some internet security camera (which i totally forgot how to setup le...hmmm)
muscle development has been slow...the only improvement i see is the 0.5kg gain in weight and the 0.5cm gain the bicep+tricep measurement...
creatine hasnt worked its wonders...yet...
honeymoon period at tos is all but over...attending quite a wayang course now...next friday got a wayang presentation and my group has practically done nothing...project had to be changed because of the lack of parts for doing gage R&R...so the all the stuff we did this wk was perfectly wasted...i'm the ASSIGNED group leader somemore...woopie
work is piling up and hanging everywhere...dio diaoz...haiz
did tanglin route with slopes in a complete loop using the alexandra park connector in 43.06...knee good...breathing good...maybe can take this as a base timing to improve on...
next wk's trng most likely gonna be affected by the procert course at work...next wk's my group's turn to take the afternoon session...crap...end at 5...then have to stay back till 5.50 to claim the taxi pool...dunno still got 精神 to go gym anot...will miss my precious sleep on the return bus too...wakao...
heard this on class95
an elderly couple were strolling in the park when a pigeon flew over them and dropped a poopy present on the old lady...
old lady:eeeeeek...get me some tissue paper!!!
old man:whatever for? the pigeon's long gone by now...
tried champion nutrition's extra serving-banana scream...a very refreshing heavenly taste after weeks of optimum nutrition's double rich choc....hohohohoho
lousy photography skills+shaky hands+murky water+fishies moving at high speeds=the photos i took below
these 2 photos show the successful spawning of young fishies engineered by dad...there are abt 10 of them...some of them too small to be seen in the photo...the pic on the right is just for size comparisons...the big fish on the top right hand corner is the mummy fish and the small orangey blurs are the young fishes
the next 2 photos show fishes with artsy patterns on themselves...the 4 of them actually have grown quite abit...they also have a neighbour (mum says its an oscar fish) which has grown in size significantly in the same tank...but he refuses to have its picture taken by me (he keeps hiding behind the pump when i aim the camera at him-he is blackish in colour with shiny orangey patterns all over)
next is the force impulse gundam which i just completed yesterday
and last pic is nemesis prime which i opened up a few days ago to amuse myself with
kenna abit of the flu yesterday...was contemplating whether to go run today anot...
wait wait wait until abt 1+ then decided to go run...see much i can accomplish with a running nose...
9.49, 10.48....and thats it...hurhur...couldnt finish the 3rd set...
napped a very solid 30min...then met up with tang to collect the real run race pack...was very tempted to get the NB merchandise on sale there...(dri-fit Ts were going for only $20!!)...but this month already spent alot on supplements so i decided against anymore unnecessary expenditure...
after that met up with muay to collect her race pack...shared some sushi and then went home...
napped again after reaching home...was so tired and kept yawning...
*yawn* think i'll sleep early tonight...
FINALLY...finally completed a full set of 3x2.4 interval properly...ever since wave run the intervals havent been very well done at all...felt so tired but so damn pleased with myself after finishing today's sets...
borrowed muay's extra hrm so i brought it out to test test today too...heart rate averaged abt 178...took abt a min in all sets to get within the in-zone level...
...today's timings 10.00, 10.23, 10.26 with ample rest in between to allow my heart rate to drop to a relatively low level (i thought it would have taken too long to wait for heart rate to drop all the way to normal resting rate)
quite an interesting gadget...might even consider getting one for myself no? hoho...another thing on my want list...chaaam...
feeling much better today after a crabby yesterday...well rested-i slept and napped and napped and slept...opened up a tf alternators nemesis prime to amuse myself...started fixing up force impulse gundam just now...
gonna start recording all my trng to monitor my progress for both runs and gym...took some measurements to check my muscle development on monday...like no improvement leh...haiz...
gonna get creatine from tsw and try to see if it helps...
despite sleeping early last night, i still woke up feeling groggy...not as much as the day before or last week...but still groggy...and as always looked forward to the sleep on the bus to work...
while preparing my breakfast i remembered i was supposed to bring along a hard boiled egg as it was gym day...so i put an egg in a mug of water and let it spin in the microwave oven...i kept watch over it in case it exploded or the water boiled over...
so at the end of 1min the buzzer went off...just when i thought i was going to have my egg ready...BOOOM!!
the egg exploded inside the oven...eggish water sprayed all over the inside of the oven with the mug toppled over...sigh...
so i had to quickly finish up my coffee+oats and clean up whatever mess i could...then i had to rush down to tiong bahru so as not to miss the bus...
a great way to start the morning...
after work today the bus driver took another route cus the usual driver wasnt driving today...so i had to walk a longer distance to gym...i got to walk over that mini bridge at tiong bahru park and i was thinking abt the interesting horoscope article i read last night...
i wasnt looking where my feet were landing and next thing i knew after turning the corner after the darn bridge...sthg caught my feet and i tumbled over...
and guess wat was the thing that tripped me...a roll of those wire mesh which we put over bbq pits....sigh....
so zun man...walk directly into a roll of wire mesh so nicely until it get caught on my jeans and wrap around my legs to make me fall when i walked...wooooh
got up, pulled off the wire mesh and threw it at the corner of a wall-checked my timex got kenna scratched anot (lucky dun have)-the bottom of my palms were bleeding...lucky not very badly scratched...quickly made my way to the sports hall toilet so i could wash off the blood and dirt...
while changing i checked my other bruises...orh cheh+scratches on my left knee and hip...scratches on my right shin(all thanks to the wire mesh)...
the orh cheh on my knee quite painful...couldnt even do leg extensions at the gym...sigh...
made me feel so crabby...fugz
gonna open up a transformer/gundam kit tmr...or maybe i'll just do both...i need some happy things!!
attended the training run at sentosa this morning with isabel...i thought it would make a good route familiarization run and at the same time make up for some mileage training which i havent been able to do recently...
run was good...took me 44.25 to complete...my left knee wasnt as painful as what happened at wave run...my quads held up pretty well...breathing and pace was good...overall felt pretty satisfied after the run...
oh ya...my first experience running on sand...how to describe leh...energy sapping? but it most definitely slows you down quite abit...especially the soft portion when we enter from the road to the seaside...then from the seaside out to the road...the sand path has slight slope somemore...but luckily only 1.6km of the run is sand....heng ah
the organisers even provided 100+ and some fruity energy drink at the finishing point which i thought was very nice of them...training run somemore...
when i reached home i had by far the WORST protein drink i've prepared for myself so far...
whey powder+milk powder+very hot water=SUPER huge clumpy masses everywhere
and after stiring and pressing the clumps against the side of the mug, i was left with oat-ish kind of floating things...warao...almost puked when i was forcing down all the oat-ish things...definitely not the way i want to enjoy my protein whey lor...basket...looks like i'm gonna have to buy fresh milk on a weekly basis liao
been finding it tough to make myself complete the 3x2.4 intervals recently...quads tired la...getting sian with the riverside path la...all the lousy excuses mostly-haha...anyway yesterday only did 2x2.4 with a longer rest in between...muay informed me that we should allow ourselves to rest until normal heart rate before starting a new set otherwise it would defeat the purpose of interval trng...
so yesterday did 10.09-rest 3.5min-10.29...couldnt push myself for another set so the excuse i gave myself was that i going for trng run today...heh
yesterday afternoon xiaoyi and uncle jason picked me up from tos to go nus help sign the surety thingy...after that dropped by ikea for snack/lunch (i had 3 .5 chicky wings..*slurp*)...then they sent me to gym...
although got an afternoon off work and had one of those rare days in which i was well fed with chicken...i so-called missed a session of the "sleep back home on the company bus"...
kept yawning in gym in between my sets...went home i fell asleep on the floor while doing crunches...
woke up damn groggy this morning...was so looking forward to the sleep on the morning bus to work that i forgot to bring my mobile out...
yawn yawning yawned whole day at office...was so looking forward to the sleep on the bus home from work...
decided to take a break from the 3x2.4 intervals today...ran the tanglin route with slopes which took me abt 35min...
*yawn*
