NUS Hill Run on 24 Jan`07 (Wed)

Weather was nice and cool -- thin layer of cloud amist blue blue sky. DR was the first to arrived followed by hohorunner, babumouse, ronnie, tktan and LM. Littetigger sms-ed that he was unable to make it last minute. George sms-ed that he was held up at work and would be late for 15mins. While waiting for him and fennel, we did our warm-up stretch and chat abt the KL 30km last Sunday. Hmm, still no sign of them @ 7.25pm. As it was getting late, we changed plan from running route 5(ulu pandan canal) to route 6(familiar route and would play catch up later) -- tktan would lead the group on the 12km route while I waited for fennel and George. They arrived juz when the guys turned out to Pasir Panjang Rd. Passed my locker key to fennel so that they could put their bags -- started to chase after the guys. Finally caught up with them @ SPI -- tktan was waiting for DR, hohorunner n LM who stopped for water break while ronnie and babumouse continued on. I took over the lead from here with DR closely behind. Briefly chatted with DR as we ran thru SPII -- he was nursing a cold and still able to run fast! As usual, I lag behind on the PGP upslope with DR leading infront. When I caught up at the end of PGP slope, we proceed on to NUH n NUS (oops, later found out that DR was catching his breath and would welcome a break). Finally, we reached the final slope -- chiong up and finished the run in 1h 3min. Good run!

LM took a short cut and came back via PGP. tktan and hohorunner came back shortly, followed by fennel n George who did the 8.5km route. Once again, thanks to tktan for providing ice and isotonic drink after the run. babumouse enjoyed his maiden NUS Hill Run, esp. PGP slope. DR, hohorunner and babumouse gotta rush off and didn't join us for dinner. After a quick shower, we had dinner @ the Taiwanese noodle place next to Feng Sheng/Cheese Prata Shop - fennel n me had stew beef noodle, tktan had ban mian, George had you mian, ronnie had fried hokkien noodle(not the black type @ KL) and LM had pineapple fried rice(a huge mountain).

P.S. Haiz, still felt pain @ my right shoulder and knee -- gotta bear with the pain for another week till my appointment with my osteopath next Sat. Better cut down on hill runs and replace with flat runs -- allow the knees to rest.

Distance : 12km
Time : 1h 3min
Avg pace : 5:15min/km