Seletar Airbase

Layed off for over a week and decided to go for a trial run this morning ... just to see whether my legs are better.

I dunno about you but I get bored with routines. If I catch myself mentally going through what I'll be doing even before doing the activity, a sense of boredom and dread typically follow. I'll be crippled by this sense of sian-ness and my motivation level drops. This applies to running or gym or just going somewhere. So this morning I was having so much difficulty deciding where to run as I was sian to run the same HSP routes, but was also too lazy to travel all the way to the gym for a run ...

I told myself to vary the route this mrn to keep my spirits up. Promptly put on my sunglasses, cap & ipod and hit the road for a short run. Decided not to run straight up Yio Chu Kang to Ang Mo Kio like what I sometimes do so as to hit my favourable stretch of tree-lined road along Thomson. Instead I decided to revisit Seletar Airbase. Brought back memories of the first time I ran inside there with Teelee & Shut last year. Also the time we passed inside the camp enroute to Sembawang during the LSD to Sembawang. That time running seemed more effortless. Now, I just felt breathless less than 30 mins into the run and I had to slow down to a walk several times just to catch my breath (sigh).

Nice to run inside the camp though. Admiring all the nice colonial one-storey houses. A little like those houses in Dempsey road ... think these are rental houses ? Wonder how much they cost per month ... several thousand dollars ?

Saw another entrance at the other side of the camp, think its the real camp? Don't dare to run near it in case the guards point their rifles at me :P Its times like these I wish I wasn't running alone coz I dunno whether I was trespassing or not :P Of coz kiasi me would rather err on the side of error and u-turned and headed back the way I came from. :P As I left the airbase, I was too tired and had to abort the plan to run the bigger loop passing Sengkang and Ponggol which I originally intended. Instead took the same route back from where I came from ... Had to walk some parts coz was too tired ... even a malay ah pek overtook me at one point ... -_-" but I managed to catch up with him after my walk break to salvage a little of my bruised ego. His following right behind me also powered me to give my all and run the remaining distance back to the starting point at a decent pace ...haha ... thanks pak cik! :P

Total time taken (with walk breaks etc) - 1hr 10 mins
Total distance - I dunno ... <>
Felt some shin in the beginning of the run, and calf pain towards the end ... think its time I go for a deep tissue massage ....

Guess I can't deny that my running must have contributed in large part to my injury since I'm still having pain after so long ... do I really not have the genetic makeup for running? :P

As I was struggling in my run this morning, I was marvelling at how I could have done LSDs to the zoo in the past, or to run most of the way for the AHM 2006. They seem so impossible to me now ... are they a thing of the past for me ?