Monday, October 18, 2010

New Balance Real Run

As part of the Team Fatbird operation Sunbird, I have joined the New Balance Real Run on 17-Oct-2010. Like previous years, the run consists of trail (4 km), road (10.4km) and sand (0.6km) for a total of 15km.

Starting point is at the Changi Exhibition Center and run in the trail at the back of CEC. Back to the Changi Coastal Road for the road and run on the Changi Beach for the Sand.

I drove there early in the morning arriving around 5:50am. Lots of carpark. You can rest in the air-conditioned exhibition center before the run. I tried to start slowly but still getting a little bit too fast in the first 3km. Need more discipline! After the first 3km, I started a run/walk of around 50:50 and able to keep it almost to the end. The sand portion is tougher this year due to the narrowest of the beach (someone say it was high tide) and the steep camber on the "wet" sand portion. Many people just walk.

I was able to push in the last 1km with sprinting at the last 200m. Overall timing is 1:52:39. Ranked 381 out of 526 finisher in the Men's Veteran category. Overall is satisfactory.

The goodie bag is only given after the race containing the finisher's tee, finisher's medal, a can of 100+, a bar of Natural Valley, some samples of L'Oreal, a sample of rubbing cream and some coupons.

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