Wed LSD

It was a holiday on 1-Oct. I planned a 20km walk around the place I lived. I went through the Kentridge park, Buona Vista, Holland Village, Botantic Garden, Tanglin Road and home.

The pace is medium at 8:48.

Interval training on brisk walk

Another brisk walk interval training. 400m x 6, 1.5 mins rest, 6:00 target pace.


The pace of the six splits are : 5:37, 5:57, 6:01, 6:06, 6:22, 6:20. Compare to two weeks ago, it is much more consistent (it was 5:23, 5:55, 5:51, 6:23, 7:35, 7:40). The left leg shin muscle still cramp up pretty bad after 4 splits, but the right leg is ok. Great improvement compare to two weeks ago.

Singapore Motorshow 2008

I went to the Singapore Motorshow this year. However, the scale is very small. Only a few Japanese brand are on : Honda, Subaru, Nissan, Isuzu, Mitsubishi Fuso.





It also has a stunt show organised by Subaru. Took some pictures.



There is a bicycle shop showing bicycle and some futuristic designs. They also have a bicycle game for riding 1.5km. I gave it a try and finished 2nd on the group of 4 at a time of 2:45.

Marathon Pacer Training

I am not a pacer and not intended to be a pacer during the SCSM. But anyone can join the pacer training leaded by Team Fatbird.


The route starts from Changi Beach Park carpark 2. One can adjust the distance by adjusting where to U-turn. Some go for 24km, some for 28km and some for 18km. I decided to do a 21km and make the U-turn just before going into East Coast Park.

I target to be at 8:00 pace. I was about there except a few splits.

Overall, the average pace is 8:07.

Interval training 1200m x 4

I must be crazy. I had my 2nd interval training within the week. Maybe I am trying to compensate for the shorter than expected mid-week LSD. This time, I try a longer distance of 1200m x 4, same 3 mins rest, target pace at 5:15.

But I am not able to keep the 5:15 pace. The 4 splits are 5:16, 5:05, 5:27, 5:26. Need more training...

Mid-week LSD

Today, due to a planned long afternoon meeting in the office, I will not be able to do my afternoon LSD to walk from office back to home. Therefore, I did the reverse and walk from home to office in the morning.

I woke up at 4:45am and get my early morning journey started at 5:18am. This time, I took a different route.

I also using a new light weight backpack from Deuter. It is a 15 liter backpack with only 350g in weight, less than half of the backpack that I was using in the last 2 weeks.

Since after arriving in the office, I still need to work for the whole day, I set my target pace to be 9:15.

I am basically on the right pace throughout the whole walk. I started when the sky is completely dark till it completely brighten up. However, around AMK library, the sky get dark and started to rain. It starts with a very light dizzle but quickly getting into heavy rain. I had to stop and took a bus to Yishun. Overall, I completed 14km right at the target pace of 9:15.

Interval training 800m x 6

Again, today is my weekly interval training, 800m x 6, 3 min rest, 5:00 target pace. In my previous 800m x 6, usually I have difficulty keeping my pace consistent down to the last split. Added to the problem that the last split always hit on a 200m slightly uphill slope.

Today, I finally got one with consistent pace down to the last split.
The pace of the 6 splits are - 5:00, 4:56, 4:54, 4:59, 5:00, 4:56 respectively. Though my heart rate peak up significantly in my last split. I am not sure if I can still keep the 5:00 pace for another 2 more splits.