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I began running in 2012. Throughout the years, I have tackled many distances lesser than 21 km, but never more than that. I usually break into cold sweat thinking about the marathon. I surprised myself by making a sudden decision to join the full marathon in the Penang Bridge International...

Having completed 5 half marathons, one 32km run and one full marathon in 2017, I was looking forward to Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon on 3/12/17 because I believed that it would be my best run of the year. Race Pack Collection Race pack collection was held in MBS Convention Centre...

This is my 3rd time doing SCSM, I have never been a huge fan of the local annual marathon race largely due to the warm climate conditions as well as the route which includes a segment whereby the 42km route merges with the 21km crowd. These made it harder...

The Offer For want of a better name, I decided to title this post “Anniversary Run” for a good reason.  Back in Dec 2014, I ran the first 10k race of my life.  This year, it would be my third time running the 10k in StanChart Singapore Marathon.  Back in...

While waiting for Standard Chartered Marathon to start in 2 hours, I decided to write my first ever race review: Mizuno Wave Run that took place on 26/11/17, the previous Sunday. Race Pack Collection Race pack collection which was held in Velocity@Novena Square was fast and over in less than 5...

Was kind of looking forward to this Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon as a finale to this year.  Had been a very productive year in a strange kind of way.  Not really planned especially in the last 3 quarters of this year.  I did my other usual races which included...

The previous years (from what I had seen online and had expected to run) had runners doing a big anti clockwise loop, starting from the west gate of Angkor Wat complex.  This year, its an out and back course that takes up mostly the northern/eastern half of the original...

Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 42.195KM Date: 3 December 2017 Flag Off: 5:20AM (Pen E) —————————–-------- This is my second FM after The Green Race 42KM (DNF and you can read my story somewhere in this blog). First FM running on the road. I am still a novice in running. Why did I sign up...