A western night run with SgRunners

Back-From-Left: Spectre, Carine, Penguin, Flip, Freddy, IronmanDreamer, Balasing
Front-From-Left: runalone, whr, Tiwazz, kops21, slacker, DreamRunner

This evening was supposed to be my gym day. Because of some last minute changes, I had the good opportunity to join in the first mini-group run with some SgRunners in the western sector. The plan was to start off from International Business Park (IBP), running through some canals, and then to Buona Vista, before making a return loop back. I wanted to go down for a slow, recovery run, mainly to meet and chat with SgRunners, many whom I have not met yet.

I went to Jurong East MRT and picked up Tiwazz, Carine and Freddy. Together we went to IBP and met up with the rest...introductions all around with whr, runalone, slacker, Flip, Spectre, kops21. We proceeded to run after some quick stretches, and chatted as we ran. It was a cool night and we all enjoyed the company very much. The canal route was new to me, and quite brightly lit. The tarmac road felt much better than the usual concrete pavements we have to pound if running outside the road. As we ran, we discussed the happenings at SgRunners Forum, as well as some of the recent events.

We were joined by balasing as we crossed the overhead bridge at about the midpoint. As we went on to the main road along Buona Vista, we bumped into Ultraman doing his own secret training, running the opposite direction. We shouted for him, and he joined us for a bit, before continuing to run home. We carried on back along the canal, and met up with Penguin and IronmanDreamer (ImD), who joined us on our return trip. From there, there was about 8km more to go. I increased pace a bit faster, and runalone went faster ahead. Soon both of us ran at quite a fast pace, and I was enjoying the harder portion of the run then. We reached an intermediate point after about 2km, and waited for the rest to join up. With about 5km left, we ran together and then with 700m to go, did a fun sprint to the finish. All were happy as they finished, and was pleasantly surprised to know we have covered 14km, as confirmed by Freddy's Polar 625x foot-pod. We did a quick warm-down, and took a series of photos for the memories, as well as to show to others who did not manage to join in the run.

Back-From-Left: Spectre, runalone, DreamRunner, whr, ImD, Tiwazz, Flip
Front-From-Left: Carine, Balasing, kops21, slacker, Freddy, Penguin

We did a quick wash up, and everyone went their separate ways, while I went for a good dinner and more chatting with Tiwazz and Freddy. I look forward to join in for more of such mini-runs with different groups of SgRunners. It is a good way to exercise as well as get to know more runners who share a common passion.

Distance Ran:14km ___Time:1hr20min____Pace:5:42min/km
Average HR:N/A___Max HR:N/A__KCal:850KCal est.