CBD Run cum Tiwazz BD Celebration

A great run last nite!

Met many new friends (daisiki aka. miffy, yeanyin & angelicawonders & charmane). charmane has joined the CBD run several times but as I have been away due to my injury.

Total turnout, let me try to recall :
imd, tiwazz (barang jaga as he just donated blood), sv, roentgen, ronnie, yeanyin, charmane, angelicawonders (came down from NTU), miffy, meteor, nemo, andy, teelee (he came after his training run just an hour ago!!!), aichai (just did his 40km bike this mrn), philip, sxuanjing, shut and cfred (who just had an operation to remove 2 wisdom teeth, he rushed down from Alexandra hospital at 630pm!).
After lots of yakking, we finally pushed off at 720pm with me trotting slowly at the back as I could feel some strain on my shin. When we reached the pier, ronnie and andy were already at the return leg of the run. We had our pit stop and short rest break before returning. At the junction, the group turned right to hit the marina south park while sv, angelicawonders went straight on a shorter route back. As I was already feeling the pull on my shin, I decided not to push myself and risk injuring again so went straight ahead to catch up with sv and angelica. Philip di di who was buddying me wanted to take the longer route so I told the rest to carry on without me. The guys were worried tat I might not be able to catch up with sv and so aichai gallantly cut short his run to run behind me. I wasn't aware but heard footsteps behind me, i turned and found him catching up with me. Was really touched that he sacrificed his run to accompany me back. Thanks lots, aichai!!!

As angelicawonders is not used to running more than 6km, we decided to slow down and walk. aichai asked angelicawonders whether she is game to play a game. Turns out it is to run 3 lamp-posts and to walk 2. So we used that technique to run/walk the rest of the journey back to CBD run. Good technique and this is so much easier than the 4min run, 1 min walk taught by Jeff Galloway! hehe ... good for fun runs, not for training tho :P

Needless to say, we were the first to return to the starting point as we covered a total distance of 7km. After some 100+ provided by aichai and banter, we saw Andy returning. He is really fast! Slowly the group started returning in dribs and drabs. After the cool down and yakking and some photos taken, we celebrated Tiwazz birthday with a chocolate cake & muffins. Junie also came with some cookies for us and the cookies were yummmy!!! None of us have lighter so teelee spontaneously went to get a lighter from 7-11 i think.

After the celebration and more group photos, we proceeded to maxwell market to carbo load. We finally disbanded at 940pm and teelee sent the HSP folks comprising taz, shut, charmane, junie, nemo and myself home. Thanks to u, teelee!!

All in all a superb run cum gathering. I'm so glad to finally be able to join the CBD run again.

Hoorah!