Labrador Park Run on 10 Dec`06 (Sun)

Was doing Xmas shopping @ Orchard on Saturday. Stumbled into a doraemon wonderland @ Takashimaya -- there were all kinds of doraemon bags, stationery, soft toys, cups etc. How abt doraemon sushi? There is a doraemon print on fish cake maki :) Finally done with shopping, rewarded ourselves with yummy Kyoto dessert -- haiz, disappointed that the food served differ from the one on the menu and didn't taste as good as it looked :( Carbo-loaded @ my friend's dinner party -- paiseh, think I ate the most!! Oops, SCSM oledi over -- carbo-load for wat? Last minute sound out George, fennel and tktan for a hill run @ NUS on Sunday -- had to go back to office and needed a place to shower and change after run (the last I heard was BG run did not have barang service). fennel was taking part in the Indoor Triathlon @ Velocity and unable to join in. So George, tktan and me settled to meet at KRGH @ 8am -- locker service only start @ 8am on weekends. Oh, tktan jumped into the pirate's boat when I mentioned the run would end @ Queensway -- lurk of bah kut teh @ Alexandra Village FC.


Woke up @ 6.15am and got out of the house @ 6.45am. Munched on 2 slices of bread during my quick walk to Sengkang MRT station. Good timing, hopped on the 6.55am train and sms-ed George that I boarded the train and seated @ the last cabin. At Harbourfront, we transfered to bus and reach KRGH at 7.50am. tktan arrived almost at the same time and we waited for the locker service (start @ 8am on weekends). Finally we started the run @ 8.20am. We ran along Pasir Panjang Rd and turned up to Haw Par Villa -- oops, the gate was closed (open @ 9am). So we continued along Pasir Panjang Rd to South Bouna Vista Rd, followed by South Bouna Jln. Then we had to jump up/down the pavement along Pasir Panjang Rd towards PSA. George was new to the area and had to stop to wait for tktan n me to catch up. Hmm, somehow, my form was not good -- left ankle and right ITB pain. tktan was having left knee pain. As we turned into Labrador Park, George n tktan ran ahead while I followed behind. When we reached the carpark, tktan asked George to follow the girl (presumed she was running a loop) infront while we took a break @ the shelter. Hmm, saw the girl u-turned but no sight of George -- turned out he ran all the way to the construction side on the left. While he did the loop to the jetty, we took a walk and enjoyed the cool sea breeze. Then 3 of us chiong up the hill -- think George was surprised by this unexpected hill. As it was the first time we ran here in daylight, I suggested a stop @ the viewpoint -- George continued on and said he would wait for us at the start point. When we ran down to the start of Labrador Park, there was no sight of George. So we walked back to the carpark. Yeah, found George near the toilet. He ran up the slopes 3 times, thinking we would be taking the same route up! We were glad when George decided to skip Mt Faber and walked to Alexandra Village FC for breakfast -- tktan thanked him from the bottom of his stomach :) Along the way, we walked up to explore the canterbury hills that DR & DO mentioned -- ok, will try this out next week. Breakfast was bah kut teh soup, freshly-made chee cheong fun with roasted pork & turnip and yummy advocado drink. Took bus 51 back to KRGH and enjoyed steambath n hot shower -- George went off to support fennel @ Velocity while I head back to office (tktan showed me a short-cut to my office, also his former work place).

Finished my work pretty quick and sms-ed George to check whether fennel had finished her tri -- if not, would go down and support her. Wah, received good news that she came in 3rd place! Instead, we head over to VivoCity in search for good makan. After passing many restaurants, we finally settled for Japanese food @ Shin Kushiyaki -- lurked in by the dessert of black sesame ice-cream :) We had Vivo Maki, tsukune with curry sauce, asparagus wrapped with beef, ika sugatayaki and the ice-cream dessert. Food so-so but I like the ice-cream :) Later in the evening, we had a celebration dinner with George n fennel @ Qun Zhong (Beijing food) in Tanjong Pager -- zha jiang mian, suan la tang, xiao long bao & guo tia. YUMMY!


P.S. Weather was HOT -- we were glad this was not the weather for marathon! Not sure whether it was my shoes, but I felt this 2nd pair of Inspire2 was heavier and I then to supinate (roll out). Let me try running with my 3rd pair of Inspire2.