Welcome New Member Lennon Ng

“成为MR25的一分子后，我感到无上光荣。也非常感谢MR25让我有加入俱乐部的机会！加入小组，是希望找到一个环境，找到一群志同道合的队友。

在时间实验之前，当时自己的差距还很大，还有许多缺点和不足等。我将用组组的领导，听从指挥，切实打开批评与自我批评，虚心向前辈学习。
自觉地接受前辈和群众的帮助与监督，努力的想跟上节奏和克服自己的缺点，严格要求自己争取当日符合组织的要求，经得起组织的考验。
最后，我还要感谢Jack Cheng，Ken Lee，Johnny Low和所有帮助过支持过我的跑步伙伴。

(Joining a running club provided me with an wonderful opportunity to meet like-minded runners. I feel so honour to be part of the MR25 family now.
Before I qualify as a member, I felt that I will not make the cut as I used to make lot of mistakes in races such as the MR25 time trial. So I seek advice from club members, trained with them and tried my best to follow their guidance. With these, I finally managed to qualify and I gain lot of valuable experience throughout the journey.
Last but not least, I like to express my appreciation to Jack Cheng, Ken Lee, Johnny Low and all those who supported me and ran with me.)”

Sent from my iPhone – LennonNg

MR25 AGM 2017

Hi members

Time for you to join/vote for a new team to serve you.

Date – 26 February 2017 @ 11.00 am

Venue – Upper Thomson Community Club, Upper Thomson Road.

 

 

SCMS 2016 – by Wann Ong

SCMS 2016 – It has almost been a ritual for the past decade to end the year running the Singapore Standard Chartered Marathon. A race that I always endeavour to do. A run that saps the being physically and mentally to toe the finishing line. To me, it also means putting any negativity behind and start the coming new year afresh.

Training for this marathon started sometime in July when I began my 1st long run. I have never been a fan of ‘long run’. It was stressful whenever we…ekend approached, even more a challenge to do it all alone. Somehow I got to do it to achieve the goal I set myself.

Routine training constituted of three days running (Interval, Tempo & Long), one core day, one strengthening day and two rest days. Track works at Gombak Stadium and Long Run at Zhenghua Park to Yew Tee PCN.

I am glad to train with a group of running enthusiasts at Gombak Stadium. Some are ‘old birds’ of Macritchie 25 (MR25), fast and furious! Grateful for the training philosophy shared by these experienced and tip-top ‘old & young birds’.

Race day started smooth except for the humidity. Was cruising at the pace that I set out to do until the 27km mark when my stomach started to cramp most likely due to the lack of water after swallowing a packet of gel along ECP loop. Pace dropped to a minute slower. I was despondent thinking that I was going to miss my target. Luckily, stomach started to ease at 31km and managed to pick up my pace but not to target pace as I was beginning to run with elephant’s legs. Sun was out and it was hot and humid, every steps seem draggy. The physical was almost drained, the mind was in to do the psycho work. Last 2km to the finish line was a push to the limit having to squeeze through packs of 10km and 21km runners. At last, the finish line was crossed with a PB! I was happy!

Thanks to the supporters who came down early in the morning to cheer us up!

Thanks to the training buddies from Gombak and MR25!

Lastly, thanks to MR25 for holding the Race within Race! I got a free pair of running shoes!

Thanks Mel for the pics!

HOKA MR25 Preliminary Results

Dear runners,

We wish to thank you for your support and hoped you enjoyed the 2016 edition of HOKA MR25 Ultramarathon.

We also wish to express our gratitude to our sponsors, HOKA, VGO, Pocari Sweat, pH balancer, Garmin for their generous support.

Finally, our thanks to the volunteers without which the event will not be possible.

Here is the link to the preliminary results. Drop us a line at events@mr25.org.sg before 1 Jan 2016 if the results is incorrect.

UM2016-PrelimenaryResults

SCMS 2016 Journey – by Stuart Mcintosh

SCMS Journey – by Stuart Mcintosh     

I had a fairly busy (running) start to the year so had a solid base before beginning my marathon training. I also joined a swim team in January which I think has helped me stay injury free all year.
I started to ramp up my training from October 1st, starting weekly long runs from 25k, and adding a few k every week up ‘till 35k on Nov 12th. After that started tapering. Had also been doing shorter but hilly runs a few times a week to support the long runs. No interval training though.
On Race Day I was expecting to run a 3hr 45min marathon, with a slight hope of managing 3hr 30min, so my target pace was 4:58.
From the start I kept running at a sustainable pace which turned out to be more like 4:45…and I just kept going At the finish my Garmin showed 3:21:04.
Thanks to Mel and Vivian for supporting along the course, and everyone waiting near the finish 🙂