2 years of NS in Gilman camp and never got round to running up Mt Faber. Today decided to see whether I can conquer it. Chio Sebas to pace me. Reach Safra Mt Faber and there were a few Safra runners warming up. Did not run with them. Not in their league.
We started from Safra - ran towards Henderson Rd and bumped into DO and Dream who seems to have ran from somewhere to join the Safra Runners. Up to Telok Blangah Rd before turning into Morse Road and up Pender Road which runs all the way up to the top. According to Sebas, this is only about 1.5km whereas from Kampong Bahru side up is about 1.1km only. After huffing and puffing my way to the top, glad did not stop to walk, we let the downward slopes drives us down and finally reached the bottom where we saw Bug speeding away. Checked the watch - alamak only 28 mins which means we had barely covered 5km at our pace.
Since had come all the way from the East, decided to run some more otherwise waste time. So we went along Kampong Bahru Rd past the beautiful St Teresa Convent down to Jalan Bukit Merah turned to Lower Delta Rd and finally Telok Blangah Dr and ended back at Safra. Took 56 min and guess the distance should be around 8km which works out to a 7min pace. Slow no doubt but I did it - my first run up to Mt Faber!
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