Marathon Training

The Runner's Rule Book by Mark Remy
& the editors of Runner's World

After the 30km run, I have reduced my training, just did 1 run on Monday this week. With the Indonesia jungle burning season here again (Enraged), we had PSI of more than 100 (unhealthy Level) on Thursday and Friday, I'm just finding excuses not to go out for a workout, even our professional soccer match was cancelled to protect the players' health. At the moment, I was reading the above book borrowed from library, the author Mark has run 5 Bostons, an interesting book poking at runners and at the same time with lots of insights.

At 6:20am this morning (Saturday) my running mates & I went for a 20km run, from our area to Mandai Zoo. Along the route, came across a squirrel, a large adult wild boar dashing across the road and a family of monkeys. Due to my long rest days, I was feeling strain on my right knee in the last 4-5km. It was a tough workout, and my knee pain is back again, will see how it goes, with 1 month more to the full marathon in December.

New Asics 1150 Gel purchased on Friday

On Friday, I purchase a new pair of running shoes and switched to Asics. My existing New Balance has covered more than 550km almost 600km it is time to replace it with another pair. For the first time I will be using asics, started off with New Balance and later Mizuno. Well I am sure this is a good shoe, good review, within budget and recommeded by my training mate.

Till the next post, hope my knee will be alright after resting for a few days.

Events for this Sunday

October is a hectic month for fitness fanatics in Singapore, with 10 events crammed into five weekends. A friend had signed up for 3 races this month, Newton 30km, followed by New Balance 16km in the coming week and the Nike Human Race 10km.

With the Newton 30km coming up, for the last few days was eating more frequent, drinking enough water and getting more rest.

There will be 4 events this weekend, the North Face 100 (100km/50km), Mizuno Wave Run (10Km), Newton 30km Challenge, and Safra Quadthlon. Both Newton and the Safra race will be at East Coast Park, guess it will be quite pack, and I will be running with them on the same route.

What will you be doing on 10 Oct 10. At 10:10 am?