Race Reviews

We are all somehow guilty of negative presumptions, simple errors we commit in our day-to-day judgement, especially when it comes to size. Throughout history, literature and TV shows, the society has placed cognitive biases on small persons or nations, which will influence human thinking and decision-making; with examples aplenty! Just...

Scotiabank Ottawa Half-Marathon (with 13,475 finishers on 28 May 2017) is the most popular race category under the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend, Canada's largest and most prestigious running event. And I'm glad to have fulfilled my dream of being a part of it this year. Prep and all Expecting an international...

Second edition this, and a slight amendment to last year’s course due to roadworks Distance : 4 km (2.6km trail, 1.4km road) loop (vs 5 km loop 2016) Format : Complete as many loops as you wish on foot within 7am till 7pm* I did well last year, unexpectedly finishing 5th, completing...

Hello JustRunLah Readers, I am back with my second episode and final lap of my runDisney journey in 2016. As I have mentioned in my TinkerBell post on my personal blog, I will be doing a Half Marathon in Paris in order to get the Castle to Chateau Medal. So this is...

In the beginning The journey to my virgin overseas race began on 27 January 2017 when I successfully secured a place to run Airbnb Brooklyn Half 2017.  Brooklyn Half, part of the New York Road Runners Five-Borough Series, is known to be the largest half-marathon in the USA, with 27,440...

Occasionally signing up for overseas races just to get out of the island for a weekend runcation, I was browsing through the list of upcoming regional races, hoping to sign myself up for 1 or 2. There were two races that stood out for me and they are Garmin Blue Run...

I signed up for this race held in Muar, Johor because I thought it would be quite refreshing to run at places outside Singapore and also to experience running in countryside. Muar is in the state of Johor but quite a distance away. Driving would take about 2.5 -...

It has been some time since I last wrote.  Had been preoccupied with mundane living and life’s tasks amongst other things like trying to recover fully from the spine and tailbone injuries I had.  Still, I had managed to complete a number of races that I had signed up...