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I have started running and training again. This is I'm doing it on my own. I don't have a support group with me anymore so I will have to motivate myself and be more positive about it! My plan is to train for a half marathon in Dec 2016 and a full marathon in March 2017. Ambitious I know considering my current condition (FAT! and UNFIT!) What I am following is the program provided by my watch Polar. Its so cool! Just a sample of what needs to be done. Since its been a long time since I last ran, I had selected Level 1 to start with. It's definitely a plus to own a Polar watch!

Never in my life had I ever thought that I would complete a Half Marathon. I remember a few years back when a colleague was talking about his experiences for Half and Full marathon, I was so impressed. Who would have thought that I would have completed a Half marathon? hahaha.  Prior to the race, I was extremely nervous as I did not really train for this HM (half marathon), plus I had walked for a whole 2 days in Singapore prior to the race. Imagine that sore feet plus over eating (cant help it, too much good hawker food in Singapore) Sibeh nervous face! You really have to plan properly on how to get to the race location. I have slight idea on how to get there. Taxi! However, I did not know that there were rehearsal for Singapore's national day going on too. So the taxi route did not go down too well as there were many roads that were blocked! After some discussions with the taxi uncle, he dropped me off at Bugis MRT, which was the most direct and fastest rou...

Happy New Year 2015! Another year has come to an end. 2015 is awaiting you with even more warmth and happiness! I have been with Fitwellness since Oct 2014. It has been a lovely journey and have never regretted it! Who knew I had it in me to do 19km? Ultimate goal for this year is to run a 42km marathon in Singapore! This is my transformation so far! My face is not so round anymore and my clothes are getting more and more loose! I have progressed from half dead from running 8km to feeling I could run more on a 8km run!  Although my transformation is not as drastic when compared to others, I believe that I will get there....slowly but surely. So what are your goals for 2015? Mine are 1. Get my fat level down to 15% 2. Complete Sundown marathon - 42km 3. Be kinder to all Milestones will be like  1. Eat less processed food  2. No sweet stuff 3. Do not miss workouts 4. Do my morning workout I don't always update my blog, s...

I haven been running since like forever! I think ever since my wedding back in January 2013, I seldom even run and its not as if I'm that good a runner. I registered for the 5km run together with Bi for the UBD Green Run on 14th September 2014. All in the name for recycling! Like I said, I haven been running since before my wedding. So, off I went for some 'training'. By training I mean just go running on the treadmill lo. Luckily we have a new gym now at Building 4, the treadmill is fantastic! ZZZZZZZ, I can barely run 2km! Talk about being a bad runner. I think I ran about 3 times before the actual run. All within 3km or 4km. On the Run day itself, we woke up at about 4:30am (Bi said to me this will be the first time and also the last time he will join me) Arrived at UBD before 6am and quite surprisingly there were not that many people. Sky turning light Not a lot of people around Waiting for warmups! Before the run. Still looking ...

I should concentrate on my running. How to run faster and further. When I started running, I simply hated it. But I feel good after a run. Like I had completed a goal. However, due to certain circumstances, I haven been running as often as I should. And I find it hard to run again after such a long hiatus. I should really try my best to run again. Been reading articles on running and strength training to motivate myself to run once again. Lets hope that I'll get better in no time at all.

I first started running (I mean seriously la) was back in early March. Coz my good friend asked me whether I wanna join the SCB Charity Run which was on 8th April 2012. I thought why not since I wanna lose weight and plus its for charity. Originally she wanted to join the 10km run but on the day of the online registration, she said her other friends changed their mind and they were going for the 5km run. Hmmm......till today I dunno what came over me, I told her to go for the 10km run as we can easily do the 5km run. Lets challenge ourselves and stupidly (as per her) she agreed and thus my journey began. All I did was run after work. I went online and searched for programs that might help me accomplish my goal. I found the couch to 5k program here if anyone is interested. (Actually I had printed out the program and stuck it on my cubicle wall a couple of months before.) I had always wanted to start running as I have seen the results on both my papa and my bro. To say that they...

So the big day is finally here. The day that I have started running for. The Standard Chartered Charity Run 2012!!!!!!! The night before I was pretty nervous. I could not really sleep. There were so many things to prepare for the run. I got my clothes ready. I had to transfer my running songs to Bi's nano coz no way am I gonna carry kick ass huge Samsung Note while running and no way am I gonna just hold the phone in my hand. So I had to transfer the songs from my Samsung Note (which I normally use while running on the treadmill) Then getting all the things ready such as my clothes, the bib, the tag, the extra clothes, sunblock, etc. I went to bed at around 12:30am and I toss and turned, toss and turned! Even when Bi came to bed around 2:30am, I was kinda semi-awake. I had set the alarm at 4:45am. So the next thing I heard was the alarm ringing. I thought to myself "Here goes nothing!".  I tried to eat some bread and drank a cup of hot milo. It was very h...

I was very worried on whether I will be able to finish the SCB 10km run on 8th April 2012. My previous record was around 6km. But for the past week or so, I wasn't even running up to 4km! That's because I have Zumba class on Tues and Thurs and on Mon, Wed and Fri, I have badminton and after badminton, I cant run 5km. So on last Friday, I told myself that I have to run at least 6km on the threadmill. But when I reached 5km, I wasn't tired at all, so I told myself try to run 5.5km, then when I reached 5.5km, I would try 6km and so on and so forth. By using this method, I ran 8.59km nonstop! I shocked myself even and I felt so proud as it wasn't that long ago that I could not even run for 5 mins straight. I maintained a constant speed of 6kmh. I couldn't run very fast still. When I was doing the interval training, my fast speed was 7.2kmh.  I find that by maintaining a slower speed, I could actually run more, which is by far the better. This is for...