Singaporean Sunday Morning

I have signed up for the Standard Chartered marathon couple of months ago, but unfortunately my knee got injured so I could not practice at all. I am taught to never give up and fight until I die, so it is quite unacceptable not to run. Therefore I am pushing myself in the last minute to prepare for the half marathon. This means that I managed to run last week once and the previous week once, which can hardly be called preparation for a 21 km run. So I said that Sunday morning is a must for me to run as there is only one week left till the event.

At 7 am I was ready and looked out from the window to see how the beach looks like. It was everything calm and a cool breeze came through the window. I was prepared for a calm and quite jog. But when I got to the beach, the whole east coast was full of people. It was more alive then at any other point in time during the weekend. But I really liked the atmosphere of this morning. Though it is quite sad to think that probably all those people had no sex on a Saturday night, hehehehe

Here are the things I saw and made the atmosphere special and wicked and unique:

- Every 50 or so meters a group of middle aged or old people doing thai chi while in the background there was some very relaxing Chinese melody. So nice :):):)

- Another group of people doing some martial arts exercise with some huge swords. Feels like running through the scene of an action movie. :)

- A man teaching a huge parrot to do some tricks. Just feels good to know that you are the one running and not wasting your time with the parrot. Wicked. Why would anyone wake up so early to teach a stupid parrot?

- Hot babes with ugly dogs. Real motivation to run fast.

- Ugly babes with nice dogs. Real motivation to run fast… as far as possible from them.

- All kind of combinations of dogs and babes. The hotter the babe, the uglier the dog and vice versa. There must be a psychological explanation to this. Any ideas?

- Some Chinese dance group practicing some Chinese dance. As Borat would say: NICE!

- A group of Indian families playing some games. A lot of Indians skip Sunday morning sex apparently and try to get closer to each other through these games I guess, just like in the Bollywood movies.

- Groups of runners preparing for the marathon. Somehow it felt that everybody was faster then me and everybody was running effortless while I was slow and putting a huge effort in each step..

- An expat runner pushing a twin baby carriage with two cute babies and running faster then me while the babies were sleeping. I guess would have been the photo of the year if I could have capture that image with the rising sun in the background. Cute :):):)

- The tide is high in the morning, so you can hear very close the waves as they reach the shore, almost feels like running on the water. It gives a good rhythm to the run.

I think there were some other things as well, but I forgot those as my brain was running out of oxygen after the first 3 km. But I guess the nice setting made me to be able to run 10 km in 1 hour and 5 minutes and this gives me some hope that even without much training I can do the 21 km in less then two and a half hour… Fingers crossed and will see the results next Sunday. Come and cheer for me :):):):)

It seems that Sunday morning was discovery time for me, as I discovered that one of the restaurants on the beach is offering a breakfast buffet for 12 SGD (6 EUR). After my run and a quick shower back home I went down to the beach again to re-energize and had a huge breakfast while watching the buzz on the coast and the ocean. I think this made the whole morning very special as well! I had a great run and had a great breakfast while meditating about all the things on the beach. Very nice and a must repeat :)