Chinese New Year Eve Run

Arranged for a pre CNY run today for a 20km tempo run to help burn of glycogen stores ahead of the reunion dinners and feasting ahead. I had invited some friends from SgRunners and well as SAFRA MF Runners to join me for the run. In the end, about 25 people turned up for an interesting and good workout for all.

I woke early, took a light breakfast, went to pick up DO and reached the SAFRA MF Clubhouse at 6.40am. It was still dark, and Freddy, Divey and Littlefoot was already waiting at the entrance. Soon Brokie arrived with Kelly and cosmic. By 7am, there was a big group of people gathered just outside the gym.....run3, superboy, Cheery, Cokiee, Kumaran, Wong, and many others. I gave a brief intoduction of Chairman and the SAFRA team to the SgRunners group, and some guidance on the route we would take. We set off at 7.15am and ran down along Depot Rd. We chatted as we ran, as a pace of about 6min/km or less. Turned into Alexandra Rd, and waited for the main body, before we ran together into Labrador Park. Many of the runners have not visited the Park before, and it was refreshing for them. We did a loop around and went to the end of the Park. On the exit, we ran up the slopes to the top and took a break near the cafe.

We exited Labrador Park, and ran along Pasir Panjang Road along to Harbourfront. Kumaran, Lee, Hedgehog and Sotong joined us for the Sentosa leg as we covered the 10km New Balance Real Route, skirting around the sandy beach portion. I was running up and down to help show the way, as the main group has broken up into a few smaller ones. After we reached the Palawan Beach area, and turned in Tanjong Beach, I was able to run ahead to meet the rest in front. We reached the end of Tanjong Beach and turned back, meeting the rest as they ran in. We had a final water break and the Palawan Beach toilet before heading out of Sentosa and reaching back to ClubHouse at about 10.30am. We had run about 2hr30min and covered from 22-24km. It was a pretty hard workout for many of us, and all were satisfied that we had sufficiently cleared our excess glycogen.....ready for reunion dinner and carbo-reloading. A nice run in good weather, with like-minded people sharing a common passion for running... till the next group workout...Wishing all a Gong Xi Fa Cai.