OTOT Mini Tri

In keeping with the OSIM Tri this coming weekend, I also did my own mini tri today :P ... at my own time ... own target haha

Since I would be running on Sunday, so I didn't want to risk causing more pain to my shin by running my LSD on the usual Sat morning. Hence I decided to bring it forward to run on Fri nite instead.

Went for my usual swim this morning. Suppose to swim for 1.5 hours, a relax swim, but then overslept no thanks to my phone that once again failed on me!!! Haiz, really have to consider doing another hard reset, or to buy a new one liao ... argh ... really dun wish to waste $$. By the time I woke up was already 6+, thought I would have to skip my swim but realised I could still manage an hour's swim if I hurry ... and the rest is history ...
Pool is rather empty today ... so I had a relax and peaceful swim ... yay!

Lunchtime - went for a 55min spin. The usual instructor wasn't there. Disappointed. Second time I've been disappointed this week. The wed mrn instructor wasn't there too. So this week had to deal with 2 replacement instructors. I couldn't even remember who the wed instructor is. The instructor today wasn't very good. Though he warned us that the tracks today are tougher, it turned out otherwise. Not very challenging in fact!! Thankfully I didn't want to push myself today considering I still wanted to do my LSD in the evening, else I would have been even more disappointment. This guy still had some way to go in being fit enough to be an instructor. At one point he couldn't even shout out instructions to us ... perhaps he was trying to get us to be more attuned to the music ? I'm not sure ... but I sure wouldn't like him as my spin instructor lor ... aw well, need to give newbies more opportunities rite ? yes yes ...agree with that too ... :)

The boss is on leave this afternoon and so ... when the cat is away, the mouse comes out to play!!! NO GOV!! Yippeeee! By 4:30pm I was feeling kinda switched off, no mood to work already. My colleagues were worse. Two of them were discussing about non-work related stuff and viewing some online photos (think of someone's wedding photos -dunno why gals have to get all gaga over bridal stuff).

I was actually worried about whether I could run as my calves were feeling tight and I'm not sure whether I would be able to run the distance ... nonetheless I was keen to try out the route and so decided to heck it and see how far I could go. At most take a cab home halfway if I couldn't last the LSD ...

Initial plan was to start at my office building but due to the chilly weather, I was feeling cold and thought I would walk a bit to warm myself up. The high human traffic in CBD also didn't help. Started the run at One Fullerton ... passed the NDP floating platform. Wow, they had this huge screen projector and it was screening something though I couldn't make out what it is .. but am sure it is related to the NDP ... also had a live band playing beside the Esplanade. Sadly there weren't any audiences ...
Promenade was closed and so I had to run along the road .... Saw someone in the KL Pacesetters T when I was at the Kallang Sea Sports Club ... on closer inspection realised it was none other than Ronnie out on his night run. I called out to him, we didn't stop to say hi, but just acknowledged each other with a smile and prodded on. Good to see you, Ronnie! :)

The weather was very cooling and refreshing and that really made running so much more enjoyable and easy .... this is the only run that I was actually mentally plotting how to extend the distance instead of wondering how to complete it!!! Amazing!

I memorised the route I was to take prior to the run and so there weren't many hiccups ... instructions given by Teelee for the route were also very very clear ... and so I got to familiar ground (Potong Pasir) without much fanfare.

Ended the run in 1hr 57mins. Funny thing is, I thought I was running a faster pace today, and with fewer walk breaks, the distance covered tonight would be longer. I was expecting say 17+km. However, mapmyrun calculated my distance to be only 14.73km!!! Even if I were to add in some additional loop i had to make, it should be only about 15km. Disappointing! Aw well, it was a good run afterall. I had my yummy dinner before heading home.

Have to really really thank Teelee for plotting out the route for me. He even patiently explained to me the route and enlarged a portion of the map which he deemed would be more challenging and circled out landmarks for the Direction Retard (yours sincerely) to take note. That really really helped a lot and I basically memorised those landmarks and key roads to find my way back! THANKS Teelee!!! If not for the route Teelee provided, don't think my run home from office would have materialised!!! *bow* He also told me to give him a call if I were to get lost. So nice !! :) I'm blessed. :)

Also thanks to Loti for checking on me. She reminded me to have $$ and ezlink card with me and even sms-ed to check whether I managed to find my way home. THANKS gal!!! Very kind of you!!!

Taz was also very kind and said to call him if I got lost. *bow* THANKS di di!!!

Since last year, I had entertained the thought of running to work. Then when I was conditioned enough to do that, alas, I got injured. The idea was shelved for so darn long and I only finally managed to realise this dream tonight. I'm soooo happy! :)

Let's hope my legs stay A-Ok after this ... cross my fingers!