Accidental LSD ...

Suppose to run a less than 5.4km around my area. Wonderful teelee even helped me to plot out a route for me to run that covers 5.4km. See map here.

Woke up at 5:50am and I was just lazing in bed feeling so lethargic. Andy's morning sms came in at 6am. From then on I was just awake but refused to get out of bed until 7am. That's when I finally dragged myself out of bed to get ready for my short run/walk.

I did some stretching and pushed off at 5 mins to 8am (wow! late siah!) I followed teelee's route and turned into YCK primary school and headed straight ahead. Then I realised that I didn't passed by Hougang Green. Haiz. What can I say, when it comes to directions, i'm just an absolute RETARD! Cursing under my breath, I just went ahead and passed by Montfort Primary. At the junction of Hougang Ave 4, instead of turning right to Bowen Secondary, I was attracted to the little park that lines the semi-D houses along the road. So I thought why not just take the pavement in the little park, that is parallel to the main road anyway. But as I turned into the park, I was just itching to run inside to oggle at the semi-D houses. That's where my accidental LSD started. I ran past the various houses, passed by some apartments and by the time i reached the main road, I wasn't sure where I was. But I saw a sign that said "Serangoon Gardens Way" and I was like "wah! finally managed to get to Chomp Chomp" and I just couldn't pass up the chance. So i decided to just do a slow run/walk to Chomp Chomp. From there i passed by the club (didn't know there is a Jumbo seafood there). By then the sky was getting really dark and it finally opened as I was turning out of Serangoon Gardens. I took shelter at one of the void decks and did some stretching. As I saw that the rain wasn't gonna stopped soon, I braved the rain and ran across the road to the nearby coffeeshop to sip on a cuppa hot milo while waiting for the rain to stop.

By then I had lost my bearings and ran the wrong direction and found myself near the Rosyth neighourhood. Realising that I seemed to be further away from home, I backtracked and finally managed to find my way back home.

Total time taken : 1hr 45mins

Was supposed to be an easy and short run but didn't expect it to become an exploratory run (just like yesterday's run). But it was nice and I get to explore my neighbourhood a little more.