Good Friday Run

We shifted the original Friday Mt. Kinabalu Climbathon training to this Good Friday Morning. The plan was to do a 20km around MacRitchie (MR) along the Northern Route, into Upper Pierce Reservoir (UPR), air cond road, then to Old Upper Thomson Road (OUTR) and back. It has been some time since I ran at MR trails and I was looking forward to this. The SgRunners also had their Good Friday run at MR, with the gals and guys starting separately, and then merging mid-point to finish a 11km-13km trail route.

I met the MK Climabathon training team of Rodney, Xavier, David, Timothy, Yi Sheng, Sabrina and Henry at the MR carpark area. Also saw renohtaram, bselby, Charlotte and many other Sgrunners. Johnny and Alvo wanted to join the Climbathon team for our slightly longer 20km menu. We started off at 7am and proceeded to run the Northern Route. I chatted with Johnny about MF and the Climbathon training activities. Johnny was strong and loved the scenic trails we ran. We exited the Notheren Route in about 23min....hmm, quite fast. I wore my non-trail Cumulus for this run, and it felt much better than my Nike Air Storm Moto trail runners. We met 2 gals of the Everest team who indicated they were keen to join some of the Climbathon activities in future.

We ran along the SICC slopes, and was showing the team the nice route along the Reservoir leading to the bridge towards UPR. We had our first water break at the nice toilets. We proceeded on to air-cond road. It was really nice and cool weather and the temperature in air-cond road felt like 22deg. The runners were enjoying the fresh breeze, with Xavier and us discussing some of the upcoming training plans for the Climbathon team. We ran more slopes along UPR all the way to the main gate leading into OUTR. We ran for about 1hr up to that point. We took a break waiting for the rest to join in, orientated the team about other possible running routes, before running back along UPR. This was really a nice day for running, and we joked and laughed while charging up slopes, and recovering on the down slopes. We took another break at the UPR toilets, before running all the way back to SICC slopes. We continued to enjoy the slopes, and decided to go back by a slightly longer way through the Ranger Station, Sime Trail, and then Lornie Trail.

The Goldies

After a final water break at the Ranger Station, we ran along Sime Trail, and took a little time to skirt around the 'blocked' land-slide area. After the land slide area, I picked up pace and ran most of the way with DO along Lornie Trail. As we reached the MR car park again, there was the large group of SgRunners cheering for us. I felt good and spoke with many friends at SgRunners, and also introduced myself to new ones like Roentgen, trackz and a few more. We then assembled and took the customary SgRunner's group photos. It was a nice atmosphere as we chatted about our respective runs. After we washed-up, I joined the SgRunners group to Adam Food Centre for their famous Nasi Lemak, Prawn Noodles (my staple fare..hehe), teh-tarik and Sour Plum drink. I enjoyed the run thoroughly, had a nice time with the Climbathon team and such a large turnout from SgRunners.

Distance Ran:20km ____Time:2hr_____Pace:6min/km
Average HR:N/A____Max HR:N/A____KCal:1,400KCal est.