Thursday, October 24, 2002

It was the latest in the day that I had been running for a while. Summer is great! It means that you can go for a run at 7:45pm and it is still light for most of the run. Especially, when you are only going for a 25-minute run.

I did my Greenlane 6 k'er tonight. I purposefully set off at a fast pace and tried to maintain it for the whole run. It is good to go for that sort of run, once in a while. It blows the cobwebs out of your system - a great study break! The time was 26 minutes and 23 seconds. An average time.

Monday, October 21, 2002

I went for two decent runs this weekend. And, on each run, I bumped into people that I know!

On Saturday, I set out for the usual run around One Tree Hill. I was making my way down Twin Oaks Drive, when I heard a familiar voice on the other side of the road. It was John! And, he was running with Michael. I cut across to their side of the road and surprised them. They were just doing circuits of the road around the mountain.

I kept going. It was a change running around the mountain counter-clockwise. And, it made me realise how steep a certain piece of road was (when I had assumed that it was flat - when running from the other direction).

I also saw Wee Yeong, but I didn't have time to have a proper conversation.

On Sunday, I did my run which goes down Ayr St. But, this time I decided to start and finish at Vanessa's flat. It was more convenient that way, as we went to Newmarket Pools right afterwards. The run was shorter, because I didn't want to risk running past my house - I wasn't sure if I would have the discipline to continue!

About halfway through, heading into Meadowbank Rd, I heard someone shout out to me "Run faster!" It was Mr. Anderson - my Japanese teacher from college. It had been a long time since we met last (I guess, 6 years), so it was good to catch up. Too bad it was only for a minute.

My legs are still a little saw from the weekend double.