The Newton Active run is a new race held in the northeast of Singapore, a pleasant break from the usual City Hall/Marina site. The Minster of Defence, Mr Teo Chee Hean was the GoH who flagged us off. We were in the second wave - veteran category, which had a smaller field compared to the open category. Overall, this is a small field.
What did we like about the race?
Good communication/emails
Easy collection
Sufficient parking
Distance markers - accurate and prominent
Adequate road marshalls
Cheerleaders (MBH didn't like those who told us to "hurry up")
Cool morning except for the last 30 min
Nice scenery ... a pleasant change from the city route
What we didn't quite like about the race?
MC was a little annoying at times (so was I to MBH!)
No water at the first water point (luckily for us, we managed to get a bottle each at the second water point!)
Some slopes (MBH didn't appreciate them at all)
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We stuck to our game plan, going at our training pace interspered with walk breaks. As it was a small field, we were the rear guards and it became quite quiet at times, especially after we parted ways with the 5-km runners.
There was a mini (friendly) competition among the rear guards. When another couple was closing on us around the 6 km mark, MBH sped up even we were going upslope. Although we didn't get threatened again by this couple, I was worried whether we could sustain it for the remaining 4 km. But sustain we did.
At the finish line, MBH was surprised that we took only 1:32! She thought we were out there for 2 hours! But IMHO, this is a great timing for someone who only took up running less than a year ago. As I said, a remarkable achievement.
It was nice to meet up with tekko and M (who were constantly encouraging us, and thanks for the pix!), feetofflury (good luck to the Gold Coast marathon), and other SGRunners.
3 comments:
hey i enjoyed reading your blog. Congrates to your spouse for completing her first 10km. And lloking at the TI swimming video clips gives me a better idea on arm stroke. Thanks. ;)
Wow I didn't realise it was yr Mrs first 10k race. You know, M also started slowly and now she is as fast as me (except she is more lazy). So if she train hard, who knows one day she will be faster than you:)
I have no doubt that she'll be better and faster than me one day! Thanks for the encouragement!
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