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Recovery Run: 6 miles

Sunday, 26 October 2008 | 07:31 am

Notes:
If you check the graph below, it seems as if I suffer mostly in the beginning to mid part of my run. After that, I feel like I can just go on, except for the fact that the sun blazing today. Oddly enough, compared to today, I felt better running last week during my Nike+ Women's Half Marathon challenge. I'm guessing it's because the sun didn't get too hot or intense until the last mile last weekend. Knowing that my weakness is running in the sun, I think I should just try to run about the same time as I did today — then again, I could run earlier in the morning and run faster to finish before the sun gets too hot! LOL. Anyway, average pace for this run is 12:19 minutes per mile and I burned 622 calories. I consumed about 3 Jelly Belly Sportbeans, too.


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Unbeaten Home Record. Shattered.

Sunday, 26 October 2008 | 07:30 am

Chelsea lost to Liverpool. At home. That's all for now. Gotta post my post-running details.


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Nike+ Women's 1/2 Marathon

Sunday, 19 October 2008 | 08:14 am

Notes:
Well, I did it. I ran another 1/2 marathon without training. Though I had some pains at some point during the run, it wasn't bad enough that prevented me from finishing. It's the normal stuff you feel when your body is shocked into running long distances after weeks of inactivity, you know? LOL. This run will really motivate me to do the remaining training runs for my November 16 race! Thanks to Sheryl's awesome advice about this thing called Nuun. It kept me hydrated without sugar. Well, I got a boatload of sugar from my Sport Beans, so it was cool. My average pace was about 12:37min/mile and burned 1267 calories. I tried to keep the pace up in parts where I felt like stopping and giving up, but based on the graph below, you'll see a downward trend to my speed (or lack-thereof) lol!


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30-ish.

Saturday, 18 October 2008 | 04:07 pm

Seems like I hardly update mi giornale anymore. I'll do my best to keep it fresh as I did in the past but you know, time constraints! But I digress — tonight's rather special because tomorroz is one of those days where you get greeted by people who remember and where you have to remind yourself that after tomorroz, you have to add another year when you give your age ;)

Anyway, I've figured out that I like pain (or don't care about it) cos I'm starting my birth day with a 13.1-mile run. At 6AM, to be exact, a mad Asian lady's gonna be running at her local beach and hoping to the heavens that her iPod and Nike+ gear doesn't fail so she can get a limited-edition Tiffany keyring (in the mail)! Back to the pain: I know I do well when I train and I've already experiened the pains with the lack-of-training; seeing that I haven't trained for tomorrow, I've decided to take it 3 miles at a time. Yes, that's my plan: imagine I'm running about four 5K races tomorrow, one after the other. This way, those little milestones will keep me motivated and make me forget that I'll totally die at mile 8. >_<

As if I didn't have enough challenges, I'm also trying out a new flavour of my Sportbeans Jelly Belly (i.e., Fruit Punch) and will be drinking Nuun-enhanced water, rather than my normal Gatorade.

Wish me luck! I'll be reporting during (via Twitter) and post-race as usual tomorroz. ^_^


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Paddington Bear's 50th Birfday!

Monday, 13 October 2008 | 06:31 am

Happy Birfday, Paddington Bear!

Can't believe this bear icon is 50 years old. I still recall making my sis Annelle (when she lived in London) travel all the way to Paddington Station just to get me an "authentic" Paddington Bear; only to find out later that it's not the best of places to be at night — no wonder she was stalked by a shady looking man when she exited the tube! Then, after getting this cute little (actually, tiny 5") bear, my other sis Minel was able to find him at Heathrow Airport! LMFAO! Thanks again, sistahs!

I guess that's probably why Annelle refused to go to Kings' Cross station when I asked her to just go and take a photo of Platform 9 3/4! She said NEVER AGAIN! LOL!


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