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Finally one of those times I have done a considerable run; at least half of my maximum distance so far.

Weather had been cooling and it's certainly encouraging to see many people doing runs at the nearby park.

Dearie took the bicycle to accompany me as I did my run.  Tea was the wrong type of liquid intake as it causes alot of wind and makes breathing a little disruptive.  At least I had made this run to jumpstart the schedule.

More runs to come.

Some fuelling done up before the run as I foresee that I will be doing a full scale this time.

No doubt this has been done, fuel ran out at the 18th km hence I have to cut my pace and double along with short sprints and slow runs.

I made it at a faster pace this time.

I wasn't quite well-prepared 'apparelly' but anyhow, I still made it for my run. 10km done under an hour. It could be faster if I had worn my socks!

A good 3 weeks had just passed so quickly and it's time to pile up my Runkeeper with running records. It has been 2 months since I did a full half marathon run which I had participated officially 11 years ago. The timing back then as compared to now is still intact.

I had better be adequately prepared for my training next week.

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Today's pace seemed a little faster and a stranger who was running greeted me when I ran past him; hopefully he didn't mistaken me for someone else he had seen regularly or me being of the opposite gender.

Anyhow, he could simply just be friendly.

The fuel I had today could not bring me further; and in view of my upcoming IPPT, I decided to keep the distance not to overpowering.  Furthermore, with the loss of light at this hour, my usual path might be a little unsafe as the last 500m before my U-turn point are usually massively littered with broken twigs, branches and "natural debris" along with unkempt vegetation along the pavements.

I made it while keeping the pace constant; the only discomfort I had was the soaked socks which rubbed against my toes over an extended period of time.  It's time I get a decent pair of durable socks, or those toe-shoes that can wicker off perspiration of the feet without the need of wearing socks.

It's a Thursday and the 7km point did not have the any signs of regular fishermen who would make themselves at home with some comfort items while waiting for their bait.  Could it be the Malay supernatural folklore that kept them away from such places on this particular day of the week?  No point thinking about such creeps.

Run was completed in 72 minutes, but once again, the GPS on my iPhone had failed to function and capture the exact distance made.

11.35km was an estimation as the plotting manually will be all too tedious.

It was one of the slowest-paced off my usual track at East Coast Park where the routes are continuous and non-interruptive by any junctions of other sort of roads.

I will need to do some proper planning for this alternative road near my neighbourhood.

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I'm taking a new route around my neighbourhood as I had to get back early and have some fuel loaded before doing my run.

Today's route is a little challenging as there are some construction of the road kerbs / re-routing of roads hence the terrain was a little uneven.

Familiarisation is needed.

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Just came across some useful articles in this forum under dailymile.com which talks about what we should eat and avoid before a long distance run.

That is just what I need to keep the fuel going as I'm now on the 20th header milestone.  Not forgetting lots of hydration.

I'm back on the long-awaited journey.

This time, I've taken a different route instead of the usual, 5.84km mundane run around the reservoir treading on granite-tar, and tar-granite route.

It was a little difficult to plot out my route initially, but I had decided to use an exploration or what many calls, the journalistic approach to finding my route.

Took the straight route to hit Kaki Bukit and found that I've already done 5+km by the time I finish winding around those area; not too conducive to run; hence I decided to head towards Comfort Driving Centre, make a U-turn and then take the route that links Eunos to Bedok Town.  The most challenging curve past Opera Estate had been one of the most challenging terrains that I had done for quite sometime.

Cleared that, hit left towards Bedok Reservoir and ran along the 700+m route that brought me back home.

All in all, it was a good run except for the inaccuracy on my Runkeeper.

Done a 5 hour eye-shut before commencing my Recovery Run after a 1 week spell of nasal slime, endless sneezing and mega chill.

Decided to take a modified route entry into Bedok Reservoir.  Today seemed to pretty populated at the Reservoir as schools are having some running events around the park.  Multiple groups of students took their run past me and saw a few teachers with timers at certain spots around the park.  Guess it could be some assessment that they have to undergo.

Apart from the surge of phelgm and mucus discharge, all was well.  Since this is meant as a conditioning phase after my recovery, I decided not to hit too far to go past my maximum at 18km so far.  With my metabolism, it seemed a better choice to get the right foods in that will last me for my long distance runs.

Took a little turn to find out what's at the other end of park connector that goes behind Aquarius and unfortunately, it does not go further as it was the end of the park connector.  The only way go link up to other parks was to take the route opposite where I had covered, but for today, I shan't go there yet.  A friendly dog greeted me while I was exiting the park connector which linked me back to the Entrance Run road that was about 900m from the carpark to the traffic light just beside the water facility.

Did a good 10km within nominal timing in my books.

A trail on the new route near dearie's place had been quite a good experience; certainly encouraging to see so many people running at the parks, close to the green lushery built just beside a wide canal (fortunately well maintained hence there was no stench).

I had went past Kampung Buangkok and exited past an old zinc-plated warehouse just along Gerald Drive.  Hitting right, I made my way towards CTE where the park connector ended and decided to do a U-turn from there.  Sun by this hour had started to pick up and I am already running toward the sunrays.  As the minutes went by, it got more blazing hot and I decided to take an early exit so that I do not have to cross the road to be disrupted by the traffic.

It was at the 3+km distance had my Runkeeper failed to track the distance correctly.  Oh well, I'll finish my run away.

The total distance did today should be not less than 12km in less than an hour.  Seems like an improvement.