Friday Long Run To West Coast

Some of the SAFRA runners like Sok Hwa, Eng Hwa, Teen and Chairman do their long runs on Friday nights, when they cannot do so on Sundays. This evening, I was able to join them as my dinner appointment was cancelled.

I don on my new Nike outfit, Asics DS Trainer (finally got to run it on dry ground), met up with the the 3 of them and started out at about 6.50pm. We planed to run till 8.30pm at least, and decided to take the route as it came. We headed towards depot road, then to Queensway, Hang Jebat, Portsdown Road, exiting to wait for the 2 girls at the junction of Buona Vista Road. When we didn't see them, both Chairman and myself headed towards the Buona Vista MRT and took a water break at the toilet.

We moved on along commonwealth road, towards clementi, and then turning left towards West Coast Road. Chairman was strong tonight, and I was following behind, at a relatively fast pace. The stretch of West Coast was long, and brought us all the way to Pasir Panjang Road. We ran past Haw Par Villa, then along the full stretch of Pasir Panjang Road, passing Harbourfront, Comtech, and then straight on to Henderson Road, and all the way back to ClubHouse. I was drained at the final 1km of upslope, and finished at least a minute behind Chairman. It was a satisfying run. We later went for some carbo-loading, and tried one of aunty's home-baked cakes.

Distance Ran:20km___Time:1hr46min___Pace:5:18min/km
Average HR:153bpm____Max HR:177bpm____KCal:1380