MR 20

MR 20Km - 20 Oct 2007

Finally after weeks of LSD on flat road, i am back at MR.

Wait, no need to tune the alarm clock! Aiyoh, abit strange leh. After weeks of 1am, 3am+ kind of waking up during weekends, i finally get to wake up as my normal weekday timing! For some, it is nightmare to wake up at this early morning, for weekend or even weekdays, but for me it is a luxury! That is why i feel i have 5 days of luxury days and 2 working days!

Arrived at 6:30am and almost started off the run at 6:45am when buay is spotted driving into the carpark! This buay deserve a spank! *angry*

Too Yen, Too Hee and 2 of their friends started off slightly early as they are doing 15km and expected to leave for some appointment.

Chee Chong Fan, Seo Too, Babyboy Too, Too Buay, Terence and Xiaozhu headed to MR for their run.

I wore the long pant version of CWX today. It was so comfortable to be in the pant. I hope it will help save my knees! It started off as a decent pace, 26 mins to get out of the MR. By then the body have warm up, but my knee is experiencing sign of aching. Sigh.

Up and over to Pierce Reservoir in 42mins. It was a cool run even before Aircon road! It is nice to run at this early morning! My knee continue to show signs of weakness(sng) at times, mostly on the right kneecap. Sigh.

Finally we reach the gate of pierce reservoir u-turn point in 1:02hr. I decide i have enough and better take the cautious route and put on knee guards. We proceed back to the Pierce Reservoir toilet in 1:22hr.

Don't need to take anymore risk, i decide to complete 20km with Terence, whereas the rest go for the 25km. We split our way after that.

Even though the kneeguard is put on, but somehow the right knee at times do show sign of damage! Die lah, sob sob! Terence start to push up the pace after Ranger station, whereas i decide not to follow suit as the knee and the lungs(abit not use to MR leow! *faint*) indicates an easier approach. In fact later i felt my back is aching as well! Cannot be ba! Back ache! When is the last time i experiencing this? Not enough 20km leh!

After the workout station at 2.4km mark, i informed Terence to move ahead as i can't afford to run at that pace given the body condition. Slow and steady, i walk and jog back to the end in 2:35hr.

It is good to be back in MR.

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We headed for makan in Adam Road. Hmm...try the nasi lemak again, this time round, taste so much better, especially the chili source. :p

Head over to Empress Road to try out The Fresh Bread Shop, heard so much about it. Well, after trying it out, i still prefer the shop at Singapura Confectionery. Freshness wise, both of them are pretty fresh, but the Singapura Confectionery have the taste of old kampung bread, whereas The Fresh Bread Shop is more ang moh pai. I still prefer the traditional kopi-0 in their traditional cup rather than than the cappuccino, latte of today's. :p