Newton Challenge 2012

The race started early at 5:30 am. Reached the starting point 10 minutes before the race and it was very crowded .

Managed to achieved about 2 hour 48 minutes for 30 km run. My right foot felt stiffed and cramped around 12 km. Removed the right sock at 14 km and felt better but suffered blister due to sands residue in the right shoe and put back the sock at 21 km u-turn point and endured the blister pain all the way to finishing line. Otherwise may shed another 5 to 10 minutes.

Race Category	30KM MENS
Nett Time	2h 48m 12s
Gun Time	2h 48m 41s
Rank	241 of 1499

The weather was getting rather hot after 23 km.

The finishing treat really a feast to the runners with ample icy cold Pocari Sweat, bananas, water melons, ice cream, bean curd and icy cold tower.

With the new introduction of shuttle bus service from main MRT stations really helped to bring runners to the event venue much earlier. The departure time of 4:35 am was a bit late for 5:30 am run. Reached the venue 15 minutes before the race was really rush.

New Balance Real Run 2012

Nice and cool weather and the race started early at 6:30 am. With early 4:30 am shuttle bus, reached the venue around 5:20 am and able to start from few rows behind the starting line.

Managed to achieved about 1 hour 49 minutes for 21 km with worst trail and sand run. Bottle neck all the way before the beach to end point due to many 10 km walkers.

I lost my Polar foot pacer and from recorded data, it has lost around 40 meters after 40 meters during initial run.

With the new introduction of shuttle bus service from main MRT stations really helped to bring runners to the event venue much earlier.