after work, Hanny dropped me home and i said - RITEEEE... i will go upstairs, change and RUN. no slacking, no switching on comp nor snacking... immediately change and run. So i did =) Ran 9+ish .. but i really ran my guts out... came back felt like dying mann... ha.. anyway

 

so after this hard run, first thing i needed was a drink which was of course upstairs.. so i dashed for the lift as i saw this kid about to close the door. brat didnt even hold the door for me!!! anyway, managed to squeeze in and pressed my floor. so he was going to the 6th and me to the 9th. but then wait, he presses 5 too. so i thought.. orhh.. poor thing, make mistake, press 6, ok la.. press 5 laa. but then he continued to press somemore and pressed 8 as well!!!

 

so then he thought it wld be fun to press more buttons (like the open and close ones.. thank god he didnt press the bell one!!) and somemore all at once, and he kept doing it and in my head i was like..'!@#$%^%$#@!@#$%^%$#@!~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!' ... and just about the words 'BOY!! CAN U STOP IT!!!' came out of my mouth, the whole keypad was reset...

 

sorri boy...

... dunno why.. last week was a bit crazy... i had an overnight setup for our Tradeshow which totally threw my bio-clock and mood off the balance making me a moody cow and a tired piece of shit... didnt even run or anything... so it was nice to get on the bike and go a short and hard 35km with Hann on Sunday morning =) we left bout 945am-ish, came back an hr later and crashed at the coffee shop for drinks. The drinks uncle was shocked when he brought 2 skinny cokes and 2 pineapple juices for 2 ppl...  what can i say.. it was damn hot... haha

 

anyway, so this nike+ challenge has now got a new name - battle of the sexes - not 'im betta than YOU!! - part 2' anymore. So actually the boys are kinda charging ahead.. trying to scare us.. !!!! although im one man down coz poor thing ndrea is down with a serious leg injury... i think it wld be a good time to start running =p so hann and slowly been starting to clock in the miles. dtan!! BEWARE!!! im watching you!!! And Duane-o!! and Huisan!! we're watching u all!!!!

 

my Korea Shots are out!!!! this one is my fav one =)

 

 

this one is in the retail package:

 

 

[the most DIFFICULT running shot i have EVA taken!!!]

 

 

 

so Part 1 is over... duane - technically since i won part 1, part 2 is kinda pointless =p

ok ok.. so it was a bit mean to bump up my lead by 21km.. then only to post them in the last 1.5hrs where i know u confirm wun have enough time to run 21km... =p but hey, u wld have done the same to me!!!! and actually, im 21 + 15km up, coz rem i ran 15 without my nano one time??? so NEH!!!!

 

This is for you buddy!!!

 

 

but having said that... im betta than you part 2.... oh dear.. hahaha.. girls (+ Hann) vs guys...

here it goes...

 

Andrea - solid weekend 20km runner!! havent mention weekdays yet!!!

Pixie - Veteran Triathlete!! dun play play...

Pat and Therese - eager budding Triathletes!! BEWARE!!!

Hann - pace spoiler...

Marion - Top Ten Distance Runner in SG!!!

Me - jus me...

 

Duane-o - well.. jus him =p

Huisan - no nano runner =p

Juan - can u run in indo???

Jiggs - HMMMMM

Dennis aka Michael - 21km rift runner...

Laurent - running boss

Andrew - wear-pink-PJ's-with-Kitty-slippers-man... says it all rite??

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(poor thing... )

Yes... it was WREEKING of Friday in the office today... everyone was kinda... well.. as u do Fridays =) ndrea and me were no diff.. Kelvin decided he would kidnap my pig.. this eventually sparked the following:

 

   

 

Piggie in shrek ears... hehehe.. not quite right..

 

 

 

ndrea and me acting cute to make Kelvin jealous of the cute piggie... dunno WHY he love that piggie so much...

 

ANYWAY... we got some company dinner tonite... HMMM... after the last company dinner.. how shld i describe it... lose chicken?? dunno.. lets see how it goes. The theme is PJ's party...

Today's gym session was good =) learned bout 'carrying ur own body weight'. Its actually quite hard to carry your own body weight.. even harder to train it. Thats how it felt anyway.. I ran bout 10km+ a bit before I did my gym session... check out the interesting Nike+ interpretation of my run....

 

 

See the dip?? That was CAF!!! He called me to tell me 'How are you darling???' so sweet... sorri i scolded u when i picked up the phone in the middle of my run...  But i think the reason why it felt so hard was Coach's program the day before. Bit of a change up - Speedwork FIRST:

 

 

 

 

Fun relays!!! heheheh... my team won 2 out of the three relays!! BEST TEAM LAAA!!!! 3 MAN TEAM!!! WOOHOO!! sadly my 4th man cramped out.. poor thing.. cramp in 3 diff places at one time!!!  we did two Medley relays then one relay baton style.. u have to drag a small bucket behind you when swim, then pass it off to the next swimmer when u change over. 

 

cool

 

 

 

 

 

38 days to go till total independance... July 20th I will be moving into my own house!!!

 

this week i would have paid my last rent for my cute lil place in Clementi...

 

its the last step in the path of life... finally i will have a place I can call my own. I can finally screw a nail in the wall if i feel like it.. change the furniture and wall colour as and when i like.. install a better shower, sleep in a bed i can call my own, wash my clothes in my own washing machine, use my own pots and pans... or shld i say plates and forks (=p - pots and pans not really applicable coz i dun cook =p) and last but not least... I dun have to feel guilty about having my Katze's in the house coz the landlord dun approve of pets...

 

its like the last piece in the hunt of life.. i have collected all the keys like car, job, education etc.. and now i am collecting the last item in this game of life: House. As of July 20th, i will officially feel old. I feel like: i have completed level 1 -

 

now level 2 : ..... err... Lin5s and/or m3gann....

 

 

~~ 38 Days to go... ~~

 

 

 

 

 

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Friday - 15km.. hard but not that hard

Saturday another 15km super hard

Sunday.. 11km easyyyyyy...

 

NOW RESTTTTTTTT...... zzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

damn it, i wld have an additional 15km on my nike+ challenge .. but of course, silly me forgot to bring the receiver on Friday...

anyway, im 30km up on duane now.. but he has probably been running too over the weekend.. hoping not as much as me =p but i think it will be ok.. he got Sales Meeting the whole of next week =p=p!!!!

 

Today we (Hann and I) took Pat out for her virgin ride on the road bike =) Hann cldnt ride coz a) aerobar screw went shit and b) tube valve went shit too... Hann!! Where u servicing ur bike????? But i think Pat will be ok.. deary, u cant wait for the whole pack to pass u then start riding.. osim is in loops.. there will be a constant supply of bikes at any time.. unless u wanna wait till all participant doing the event are done.. ur timing will be badly badly affected.... somemore ull ave to wait damn long.. u wun wanna continue after such a long wait...

 

tmw work again...

 

this was seriously messed up... this is really not forgetfulness, nor absent-mindedness... this was pure VANITY.. and i got burned for it..

 

so this morning, when i left the house, i packed two bags; one laptop bag and one bag with my gym stuff in it - i was gonna run in the gym after work with ndrea... nike+ challenge and all... then i got these new shoes =) new racers, the Nike Air Zoom 100DGRS+ 

anyway... so since i was going to train after work, i didnt want to take the new babies for a run just yet.. so i still needed to bring my Triax's along with me. but then dilema.. my gym bag was not big enough to carry two pairs of shoes. SOO... what is a girl to do... not wanting to face the dilema of choosing which shoe to bring home.. i took BOTH =)

 

so i changed my bag (i had a bigger one in the office), threw everything in one bag (including the laptop) and off i went =) only to reach the gym and realise...

 

 

So this is part where i learned how effective Nike+ really is...

I ran 15km on the treadmill without my nano...

 

 

... but i didnt like think.. oh, no nano, i dun wanna run.. i actually found myself still wanting to run many many km's knowing that its good for me. good training for whatever event that is coming up. i found my reason to run again!! and all through nike+ (and Duane who challenged me)!! So... granted, its a super expensive toy to have.. but boy, its one hell of a toy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

swimmm.... again one of those days... jus wasnt feeling it at all... i think my muscles have become immune to the long interval sets that i am doing. its like clockwork, i can predict almost to the exact meter when my muscles will so call fatigue to the point of where strength no longer plays a part, but adrenaline or will-power take over. Mind over body... of course it didnt help that i have so many things to do right now.. actually i was contemplating skipping swimming today coz i really have a lot of my plate right now. but i didnt want to miss the session, so i thought i'd compromise a bit, go for System 1 and skip System 2... So for today, sets not so much ... :

 

200m Warm up

2 * 200m kick

2 * 200m pull (buoy)

5 * 600m on 10:30min - i cut the last one short to 500m...

 

so for me, total mileage was 3900m...

 

what i missed:

6 * 100m sprints

6 * 25m Sprints