SAFRA Singapore Bay Run & Army Half Marathon 2009

Walked over to the starting point at Esplanade as I live very near it.


China Street.


Pickering Street.


Phillip Street.


Singapore River.

Reached the river at 0430Hrs and already saw several small groups of people doing warming up runs.


Group photo before the run.


Bag deposit area.


Walking to starting line.


On Benjamin Shears Bridge without a tripod.


Back at finishing line.


Collection of medals.


Me with my medal.


All the bags of the participants being hung on the barricades. Its good that all of us returned early. Later on it would be flooded with people queuing to retrive their belongings.


The Guardsman who very dui cos he cant run as he kena duty.


Its another medal in the collection.


Initially wished to go for a fun run. Thus brought my camera along during the run. Wanted to take photos and videos along the way of the run. Stopped a couple of times on the Benjamin Shears Bridge to video the participants running by.

It was very dark as we had started early at 0530Hrs. Was taking my own sweet time to run. Never get to see much distance markers due to the darkness as well as the narrow route causing all the runners to squeeze together. The first marker I saw was the 4km marker and it was already at 28 mins. Very slow. Very very slow. Not that I cared thou. Ha .. :)

Met the front pack runners running past us while at Fort Road turning into East Coast Park at around 40 mins. Inside ECP it was squeezy. The road was too narrow. Could not even look far ahead. Only noticed the water stations when you passed by it. At one stretch there was even no light except for red cyalume sticks on the 2 sides of the route.

Reached the U - turn point at ECP at around 1h 4m. This is around 9+ km. Gave up on wanting to take photos. Was thinking "Aiyah .. farg it lah! Just run lah!" Ha .. :)

Started to pick up my speed. Began using the strategy of aiming and overtaking. Aim, overtake. Aim, overtake. Aim, overtake.







Overall results:

Gun Time: 2:18:55
Net Time: 2:14:32

0km - 9.2km: 1:04:31 --> 7m 1s pace
9.2km - 17km: 0:46:50 --> 6m pace
17km - 21km: 0:23:11 --> 5m 39s pace

Average pace: 6m 23s