Editorials

It's more a verb than a virtue. We don't sign up for a race to outrun the 5,000 (and definitely more) runners ahead of us. Neither would we train for 20 weeks (or more) to compete with another runner going faster than our race pace and then, we end up crashing...

Leading up to the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2015, some of you may be starting on your carbo-loading or want to start on carbo-loading. But carbo-loading is not simply just consuming carbohydrates or increasing your carbohydrates intake — there is science behind it and the proper way to do it. Carbo-loading...

When you walk into a gym and see someone squatting with 150kg on their shoulders, you'd think about how much they've trained to get there. You'd consider the sheer impossibility of you ever attempting that, and instead, you lace up your shoes and head out for a run. After all,...

Two nagging desires we have as runners might be: If I skip a few days of training and do one really hard one on Sunday, would that work? Are there any tricks for skipping rest days? In both cases, the answer is no. You can't cheat on training and you can't cheat...

Having isolated itself from the rest of the world for decades, North Korea is a place shrouded with mystery and mostly conjectures from whichever information is available on the internet. Now on its third hereditary ruler, this nominally communist state has defied all expectations and survived a quarter of a...

We've all heard of setting SMART goals right? It sounds all very sombre and nerve-wrecking, but if you're going to keep going, you'd at least need a specific goal. Often times, we either set the bar too low or not set any goals at all because we're afraid of failing....

Nearly 50 percent of recreational runners who participate in distance running end up with a running injury each year. And 82 percent of them suffer such injury in their lifetime. Definitely, we admire every runner out there waking up in wee hours to get in a run and pushing through...

Run for a Good Cause with 100PLUS We attended the launch of 100PLUS Run for Good earlier today at Kallang Wave Mall, and we are delighted to share with you the happenings! National athletes ran and for every kilometre they clocked, 100PLUS pledges to donate S$50 to SportCares. Participating athletes were national sprinter Calvin...