My 2nd Climbathon Training

Tapering has begun for the KL Marathon on Mar5. After my 35km LSD on Sunday, I did a short recovery run on Monday with wifey. On Wed evening, I joined DO and Kops for the Climbathon Training with Xavier and a few others. There were about 8 of us, and even then, a few of them left early after the run.

We started off at 7.15pm from SMU track for a 10km run in Botanic Gardens ground. DO and I were leading the run, and we had some fun touring Botanic gardens at night and getting a bit lost around Ginger Garden, Orchid Garden and what other gardens have you....haha. DO was testing out his new HRM, and fumbling a bit. Along the way, there were some heart-rate raising scenes...and that got the guys pretty excited...hehe. We exited Botanic Gardens, waited for a while for the rest to catch up, and then proceeded for a fun run in the old Tanglin Barracks within Dempsey area. There were a number of restarants and places to chill out in there, and we were speculating when we will run there for drinks and chit-chat one of these nights. We completed the run in about 56min, ending at SMU track again for a water break.

When the rest came back at about 8.45pm, we ran to the Farrer Road HDB block to do our stairs-climb repeats. I did a total of 5sets of 20floors each set, with approx lap times of 2:57, 3:15, 3:57, 3:32, 3:25. Took a 2min break after 3sets, and then finished off the 2sets. I felt much better this evening compared with last week. I hope to continue with this Climbathon training after my KL Marathon, and I will not push it further till then. I will take a break next week to do some swimming and more tapering. After the stairs climb, we jogged back, did a quick wash up and had yummy prawn noodles at Adam Food Centre. Do and I gave some feedback and suggestions to Xavier in the hope of improving the Climbathon training and team's preparedness, and hopefully our little contributions can play a part in helping this program succeed well...we shall see.

Did a 10km tapering run with the SAFRA MF runners on Thursday evening. Finally got to meet Woodstock aka Isabelle from SgRunners. I had a nice eay run along Depot Road, Queensway, through Jalan Hang Jebat, to Kent Ridge Park and finally back by Pasir Panjang Road and Telok Blangah Road. As usual the hard work came at the final 1km stretch of Telok Blangah Road. Divey's knees were still not okay, after resting for a few days. Eileen was in good form and looked happy after her good performance in the HK marathon. Bug, equally 'high' is now into speed training as he wants to improve his 10km and short distance run timings. DO looked good and is all set for a good performance at KL marathon. I have a slight sore throat, but otherwise, I am feeling good. Will look forward to a 20km LSD with the SgRunners this Sunday at East Coast Parkway.