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HAVING worked from home since late last year, I decided to schedule my running sessions to the early morning instead of noon or evening some months back. I wasn’t a fan of dragging the body along in a groggy state. But once I settled into the routine, it becomes a...

Ever since I started using Jaybird Sports Headphones, I have never looked back. I did a review about 1.5 years ago whereby I compared my first set of Jaybird X3 and the second pair of Jaybird RUN. Back then, the greatest upgrade for me was from a semi-wireless sports...

Training The race was planned just after four weeks after my marathon in September (here is the previous race report). So the short term training plan aimed mainly to transfer from the passed race to a new, shorter one. For that, I gradually increased MPW from 20 to 35 during...

It's my first full marathon in Taipei! ? Had been wanting to run a full marathon in Taipei for a few years and finally did it this year. Maybe will run again a marathons in Taiwan but in other areas outside of Taipei. Last year I had many races...

I guess many Singaporeans don't even know there's a Hot Spring in Singapore ? The first time I went to Sembawang Hot Spring was many years ago when I was in Primary School. A friend brought me there because he felt bad that I fell when he tompang me...

Training It's been a while since my first HM (May 2019) so I had plenty of time to prepare to the next stage. I committed to quite a high (for me) weekly mileage bar and gradually raised it up to 100-110K, then started descending 6 weeks prior to the race,...

Here it is, ASICS GlideRide -- a consumer-friendly version of the truly innovative ASICS MetaRide, a result of more than two years of R&D from the famous Japanese brand. With the little sacrificed on the high-end components, they managed to make these innovations available for the wider audience of...

This is an account of the 9th marathon which I did with Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2019 and the 10 km race the morning after.  (The event was a well organized one in my opinion.  But I won't be going into the usual review in this blog.  Perhaps another...