A brief TV appearance

Tomorrow is the start of the 168km NTU Run-Round-Singapore 2005 Ultra-Marathon. As part of a publicity campaign, I went down to MacRitchie for a short session with the TV crew of Chinese news channels 8 and U. I was there to support MR25's representation as escort runners for the key ultra-marathon runners. The role of us escort runners are really to run along with the ultra-marathoners, providing them company, as well as possible assistance as and when required. There have been a coverage of this upcoming event this whole week, with newsbytes every day about something related to the run. Today was supposed to be about the escort runners and the roles they are going to play during the run.

Met David aka DO, Aik Hock, Alvo, Evelyn, JJ, Mika, Vincent, Stephen all from MR25 at 1pm. The trifam family was there too, and I met with Caroline as well as Mythos and his gang from trifam. These two key groups will be providing the main escort runners for the run. After some interview sessions with both the presidents of MR25 as well as trifam, we were heralded to the zig-zag bridge for an hour of running about, coupled with warm-up exercising, and slow jogs in formation. It was a fun time as we chatted merrily with one another, and we later found that the camera-man was an avid runner in his younger days. He mentioned that he wanted to run along with us, after seeing us enjoying so much...hehe.

Members of the MR25 team (Evelyn, Vincent, Aik Hock, David, Alvin)

The snippets were later ran in the sports section of the evening Chinese news on both Channel 8 and Channel U. A few friends called me to say they spotted me running in front..haha...very paiseh to be running in front. I later went to meet up with some members of the SgRunners at Esplanade to collect SgRunners T-Shirts, which many will be wearing for the 168km runs to help promote SgRunners. We had good discussion about the growth of SgRunners and some of its interesting forum members. Overall, not a running day, but all leading to the main running event tomorrow. I may have something to blog about after the run..tune in.