You Know You Are a Runner If You Relate to These 8 Things During CNY
For most people, Chinese New Year involves spring cleaning, shopping for new year clothes, visiting friends and relatives. However, for cray cray runners (like us), running is a lifestyle and it doesn’t stop during the festivities! You will definitely recognize these habits if your life revolves around running… 1. Go for an 8.88 km, 16.88
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RD Girl Gang shines at Skyhawk
Many of us from the Running Department took off to Malacca last weekend to eat endlessly, stroll aimlessly, bond lovingly and to participate in the 22 KM Skyhawk Nature Run 2020. A trip that has etched it’s memories for us to revisit fondly and frequently. And aren’t we chuffed to share that four of our
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5 Questions you may have on Running with RD
Hi there! If you are reading this then most likely you have stumbled upon us online and want to find out more. Well look no further, let me give you answers to five questions, I anticipate you have about running with Running Department. 1. When and where do we run? Saturdays are long, while Wednesdays
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At 39 KM, In to the Pacer’s Mind, to Find
Of course crossing a finish line warrants a big smile on a pacer’s face and that is why every finish line photo is flooded with smiles but today we want to retract 3 KM’s before the finish line, get in to the pacer’s mind and find, what do they think then? Pacing is akin to
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8 Things Runners do during CNY
Spring cleaning… “does it spark joy?“…. ✔ Grocery shopping for reunion dinner… ✔ Buying new clothes and shoes… ✔ Changing new notes from the bank… ✔ Well, for cray cray runners (like us), there is a whole long list of other things to do on our minds! Here are some, raise your hands if you
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How did Janice train for MR25 Ultra Marathon?
The 41st edition of the annual Mizuno MR25 Ultra Marathon took place on 30 December, 2018. Held at Macritchie Reservoir the race is only considered finished when the participant completes 5 laps of 10.35km (approx) each, totalling 51.75km (approx). The winner is the person that completes the most laps within the race’s 12 hours period.
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Jacky and Laine’s Strong Comeback in SCSM 2018
Over the last few weeks our Feature Friday articles have introduced you to some of our pacers and their grit infused success stories. But whilst parading these pacer’s perfection through our articles we might have missed one of the most unspoken pacer experience, which is, what happens when pacers are not able to cross the finishing
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This Pacing Life & a Chance to Pace
If you were to ask someone who is new to running, “do you know who is a pacer?” Most likely, the response will be something like this, The term pacing or the role of a pacer is not commonly known. *Infact, the original term was pacemaker or pacesetter, sometimes informally called a rabbit, it is a runner
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The Psychology of Running
“I’m often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I’m running? I don’t have a clue.” Haruki Murakami in his critically-acclaimed book, What I Talk About When I Talk About
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SCSM 2015 – The Journey is Always the Same
SCSM 2015? Yes, we know it’s 2018, but if the journey is always the same then why don’t we learn from someone who has already undertaken it in 2015 ? Meet Chris Cheow who has completed a hat trick in pacing for SCSM Full Marathon and in total has completed 10 full marathons! That’s an incredible
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