My 2nd run with the Westside Runners

The Westside runners comprise of SgRunners who work or live in the western sector. I have joined in their first weekly run 2 weeks ago, and had much fun. This evening, we were supposed to do a casual 12km, and I was going to meet Bug whom I have yet to meet. There were 3 groups of runners meeting at different points, culminating at the Dog Unit along Ulu Pandan area.

The weather forecast was for heavy rains, and the skies did look gloomy. I met up with Yankee, Tiwazz, Balasing at Phase Zero along Buona Vista, before proceeding to meet Bug at the MRT, and then running to the start of the canal at Ghim Moh. Seemed like whr and spectre had already gone ahead to meet the rest of the group waiting at Dog Unit Canal. We ran at quite a fast pace as we didn't want the rest to wait too long. After some 2km, we saw a group of runners stretching along the canal, and as we got closer, we shouted 'SgRunners!' and started high-fiving and some hand-shaking. Runalone, Kops21 & friend, Freddy, Flip, Slacker, whr, Spectre, LaoKaYu was happy to see us, just as we were happy they were still waiting for us. The group immediately merged and the running continued.

We ran along Clementi Road down along Pasir Panjang Road and then turned towards to the MacDonald's at West Coast Park. We chatted and updated one another as we ran. The chit-chat pace was quite comfortable for all, and I found that Kops' friend was also a 10km specialist, and immediately introduced him to Tiwazz who would provide some tailgating tips. Along the way, we didn't see any babes running, but saw 2 6-Pack hunks ran past...I shouted to Flip but she was too blur to take a good look...hahaha. Just her luck, she was more focused on her running, I guess. As we reached the MacD, Kops and friend dropped the pace a little while the rest of us ran ahead to use the toilet. The night was cool, and the ground was wet, but we were not caught in the rain at all. The rains had stopped just before we reached that place. After the break, we proceeded on and picked up the pace as there were some lightning flashes. Led by runalone, we went fast and very soon reached a bus-stop. I realized the group of kops, balasing, tiwazz, yankee had broken off from us. Fortunately we had Flip and her handphone, acting like an experienced army signaller, communicating with Balasing on the other end. The rest of us took the opportunity to catch a breather. By then we had covered about 10km.

We finally agreed to meet up with Balasing & gang at Dog Unit Canal, which was about 3.5km away. We ran quickly to IBP, and Spectre bidded goodbye. LaoKaYu also proceeded to run back to his home in Choa Chu Kang, some 8km away. The rest continued on to Dog Unit and we were running pretty fast along the canal. I was feeling ok, despite my 17km hills run yesterday. I was having a good run with runalone, Freddy, whr in front, when we met Balasing & Yankee coming from the reverse direction. We decided to split ways from there, and the bigger group ran back to IBP from there. Bala, YK, whr and myself ran another 2km to the canal at Ghim Moh. It was getting late, and a time check showed it was already 9.30pm. whr bade farewell and went on home for his brown rice dinner. The remaining three of us ran back to Phase Zero and did a wash up, while waiting for Tiwazz to meet us. The 4 of us then had a good dinner and story-telling at the Clementi food Court till 11pm before dispersing. I even snapped a photo of 2 fresh sotongs at the BBQ stall for a show-and-tell later on. I think we ran about 15km. I did not set my timer on, and was just enjoying the run. My legs felt ok, though all of us were famished by the time we finished. Another enjoyable western sect run.