MR 25

Suppose to do 25km this morning at MR. The ground is wet due to yesterday evening rain. Nevertheless nothing strong enough to stop us from running this morning.

Kia, Tao, CheeChongFan, ZhuBaiJie, Kua, TamJiak, Too Slack(latest too member), myself and Deepcruiser(Sgrunners) started our run at 6:50am.

Lead by Kua, finished the first part at 24mins, feeling pretty good. That is always a good sign!

Tao has been running pretty slow for the past 2 weeks, again lagging behind this morning. Something is not right. Maybe her persistence cough which i heard quite often is causing discomfort while running.

From there to BTMBT is okay, as we took a few walk breaks here and there. It was fun running down the wet, muddy slope at rifle range w/o break! It is very difficult to break and everyone(w/o trail shoe) seems to slide and trip.

We sort of split the group at visitor center(BT). We proceed to do the 5-6km loop. It was fun going up/down the slope. Skipping pot holes of water, looking out for roots and crack. I was feeling ok. Engine seem to be alright.

When we hit Rifle Range road, i suddenly find myself tired. HR is good, just feeling tired. I think stamina is the problem. Legs are good though. No choice, continue to do more walk breaks.

I signal for them to proceed without me, while i take a short cut back. Sigh...given the condition, i think it is prudent to do so. My next long distance run event is still 90 days to go! No need to push hard currently.

Slow and steady, finally make it back to the carpark. I think 22km with all sort of breaks used up 4hr.

The best thing that come out of this is that i feeling okay throughout the run. Stamina is a problem currently(expected), which i need built up. I will get there, hopefully. We shall see.