never thought I would write about something so newspapery = the year in review.
these days very lethargic no energy little motivation to do many things..it is true that feeling a bit jaded (kind of been there done that)..or maybe a "PO" angle to look at it is being "more focused"..well that is a 1/2 full or 1/2 empty thingy.
what about 2010?
I did two 1/2marathons 21.1km Sundown May29,2010 (2hrs 33mins) & Standchart Marathon Singapore Dec5, 2010 (2hrs 50 mins). I am doing weekly runs with a good friend and doing 3x10km/week runs with reasonable comfort and feeling good after runs (did 10km this morning & on wednesday and 8km on Monday since I came back on Dec25 night)...
I spend lots of time with old RI classmates/schoolmates, rediscovering old friendship, hearing expose' from ancient times gone by (I was sleeping mostly through RI days), played mahjong first time in my life, couple of tennis games (should do more tennis) and a bit too much dining (should do more coffee 功夫茶 red wine like what Chai Seng suggested) but managing my weight ok with 30km/week runs & 1 meal a day...
and not forgetting watch world cup together at Temasek Club and semi & final @ MBS (Marina Bay Sands)..watched F1 at Pit Straight suite courtesy of Chong Lee..got invited to tapas and fine dining by by home chef friend Wang Junwei who is discovering new things everyday from sous vide 70degC vaccum cooking to 36hrs ice filtration consomme to black garlic..Kum Fei coming back to visit his son mum & nephew wedding and we having sungei road laksa & turtle soup at jln berseh hawker centre.
A few of us got together to work on some social project which may begin to take shape and hopefully can see some result in 2011. quite a good team really, a few of us RI friends and a few 13-15yrs our junior and they in turn work up a partnership with a younger team of 26 year olds with Stanford degree..
and I got to visit my eldest brother 永俊 in Shantou Chenghai 汕头澄海. though I invited him, his wife and daughter to stay with me for 1 month in 1995, I don't think much about them after that other than the usual occasional letters etc..this time over 22-25dec I got to know them a bit more in depth, the 2 nephews, their wives, son (1st year communications technology in Guangzhou No2 Agricultural unviersity) & daughters, my niece, her hubby (a graduate from Qing Hua University) and their daughter my other grandniece..and a bit more understanding of the ordinary folks life in a utterly corrupt system to the base level - counterpoint to the macroscopic successes that make China the economic powerhouse of the 21st century which no doubt pragmaticly improve the lots/lifes of 100millions people than any empty ideological calls of "democracy" - intellectual snobs' ideology more important than real improvement, real freedom/rights to property, employment etc for 100milions people?
also got to sort out some of W3's investments and to rebalance some personal ones...
2010 is over tonight, looking forward to welcome 2011!
Friday, December 31, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
still having internal battle whether to do the next 1/2marathon, probably standchart at year end 2011..
did 8km run this morning 9.1kmh, rain started at 7km and became a downpour at 7.5km totally drenched. last week did 10km 9.1kmh with son and 6.5km at a slow 8.4kmh with Su Lin around the estate with terrain.
still having internal battle whether to do the next 1/2marathon, probably standchart at year end 2011..
on one hand I tell myself at this age there is nothing to prove. The 29may2010 Sundown set a target and helped me to focus my training runs and I was doing 5x10km/week before Sundown. for 5dec2010 Standchart Singapore marathon I reduced to 3x10km/week - that being my REAL objective ie to do comfortably 3x10km/week w/o excessive assertions and injuring myself, NOT the 1/2 marathon per se.
since my objective of 3x10km/week is achieved and (1)I have no problem to continue that w/o any talisman 1/2marathon (2)I am unlikely to push myself risk my knees then running 21.1km is just running 10km at a slower pace to last 21.1km and past 15km breathing is not a problem and tiredness of legs kicked in and potential cramps, then 21.1km does not achieve anything that 10km doesn't achieve for me in pragmatic health terms..
I can say "been there done that" having completed 2 1/2marathons but actually there's not much to be said, my timing of 2hr33mins for Sundown was mediocre and 2hr50mins for Standchart a bit below expectation...
since there is nothing to prove to others or myself and i no longer need a 1/2marathon to make myself continue 3x10km/week runs the other purpose of doing another 1/2marathon is just to see if I can better the time..assuming my 2hr 50mins for Standchart is just due to cramp (which means inadequate preparations like strength training etc to avoid cramps), then target would be to do better than 2hr33mins in Sundown even with the terrain & route bottlenecks for Standchart (guess if I am to run another last 1/2marathon there is no point to do 20,000 runners Sundown might as well run the 60,000 runners event of the year Standchart marathon)...maybe I can do 2hr30mins or 2hrs25mins, and that is all I am interested to achieve and if i fail that will still be my last just that I have tried 1 more time...
stacked against that is the additional incidences for injury damaging the knees etc..problem is such injuries are silent and accumulative and there is no doubt the more "beyond the limits" attempts the more likely the injuries...that was why I don't "push" myself it is not worth the injury however through training it is possible to improve the stable running pace w/o sudden stretch beyond what the body is accustomed that can cause real damage...
still having internal battle whether to do the next 1/2marathon, probably standchart at year end 2011..
on one hand I tell myself at this age there is nothing to prove. The 29may2010 Sundown set a target and helped me to focus my training runs and I was doing 5x10km/week before Sundown. for 5dec2010 Standchart Singapore marathon I reduced to 3x10km/week - that being my REAL objective ie to do comfortably 3x10km/week w/o excessive assertions and injuring myself, NOT the 1/2 marathon per se.
since my objective of 3x10km/week is achieved and (1)I have no problem to continue that w/o any talisman 1/2marathon (2)I am unlikely to push myself risk my knees then running 21.1km is just running 10km at a slower pace to last 21.1km and past 15km breathing is not a problem and tiredness of legs kicked in and potential cramps, then 21.1km does not achieve anything that 10km doesn't achieve for me in pragmatic health terms..
I can say "been there done that" having completed 2 1/2marathons but actually there's not much to be said, my timing of 2hr33mins for Sundown was mediocre and 2hr50mins for Standchart a bit below expectation...
since there is nothing to prove to others or myself and i no longer need a 1/2marathon to make myself continue 3x10km/week runs the other purpose of doing another 1/2marathon is just to see if I can better the time..assuming my 2hr 50mins for Standchart is just due to cramp (which means inadequate preparations like strength training etc to avoid cramps), then target would be to do better than 2hr33mins in Sundown even with the terrain & route bottlenecks for Standchart (guess if I am to run another last 1/2marathon there is no point to do 20,000 runners Sundown might as well run the 60,000 runners event of the year Standchart marathon)...maybe I can do 2hr30mins or 2hrs25mins, and that is all I am interested to achieve and if i fail that will still be my last just that I have tried 1 more time...
stacked against that is the additional incidences for injury damaging the knees etc..problem is such injuries are silent and accumulative and there is no doubt the more "beyond the limits" attempts the more likely the injuries...that was why I don't "push" myself it is not worth the injury however through training it is possible to improve the stable running pace w/o sudden stretch beyond what the body is accustomed that can cause real damage...
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