Running Sucks

Some cool tips from Dr Jia Jia for runners for this year SCMS. But hey it can applies to all races as well.

Over in London, we didn't have much time to do much sight seeing but one thing I knew I had to do was do a pilgrimage to one of the Premier League Club's stadium and in London there is non bigger and better than the Emirates Stadium. Unfortunately as it is now, the team with the bigger better stadium is not necessarily the better team. Enough of words, for all the Arsenal football fans, here are the highlights of the Emirates Stadium A very bold declaration in a very understated manner This is more like it! Guess who is this fella? No no not that smiling goondu in the green jacket. The statue, the guy with the outstretched hands Is this all there is to the Arsenal's haul? A time capsule.  Wonder what went into it? And finally, the very familiar sights to all soccer fans: The tunnel to the field And of course the beautiful pitch.  I think the fellas from our sports hub need to come here and learn from them how to...

Maybe it is the altitude. Maybe it is what people call the dizzying height of love. But whatever it is, the top of the Swissotel Hotel, seems to bring out the love in people. On Sunday at the Swissotel Vertical Marathon, there were not one but 2 wedding proposals plus many couples getting all lovey dovey up in the sky. One exciting guy didn't even think it was high enough and had to carry his partner on his shoulder to really get the top of the world feeling! Here are some of the lovebirds The first wedding proposal And a lip smacking kiss to seal the pact The 2nd wedding proposal Of course must sealed with a kiss This one a chaste kiss This one must be a top of the world kiss No kiss for this couple but they just couldn't get high enough! Congratulations to the 2 couples and to the others - may your love grow as high as the highest building.

There has been studies out there claiming that glucosamine is not really effective for joint pain and treatment. But I have been using a combination of pills and cream since 2006 and I am a firm believer that even if it doesn't heal, at least it is effective in warding off knee pain. I have been running and now more than 8 years after my knee problems, I am still running without any major problems. Sure there are the occasional aches and pains but nothing really problematic like runner knees and I attribute this to my constant use of glucosamine. Usually I am game to try new products and so when I was given a tube of Pernaton Gel to try, I was most happy to do so. What exactly is Pernaton Gel.  "Pernaton Gel is an unique massage gel, contains the original Perna extract and the vital GAGs extracted from Green Lipped Mussels. GAGs consists of naturally occurring glucosamine and other amino sugars" In another word, Pernaton Gel is actually glucosamine and t...

In 2006 when social group running was still in its infancy, I joined a group of the Sgrunners for what was known as the Laksa Run  where we ran, took photos and end up with a nice meal. Since then, such group run has ran out of fashion with so many races every weekend.  Fast forward 8 years later and finally we have a remake of the Laksa Run!  This is the then and now photo. Photo Credit: Jancy But so much has changed since then. For one thing, the railway track is no longer there. Now this place is called the Green Corridor. And of course back then quite a lot of people have much more hair. Now some have less - almost to zero! And some are of course no longer into running. And last but not least of the original cast of 15, only 4 turned up this time round. Can you identify them? One of the highlight and sometimes bane of this sort of run is the crazy time taken to cover the route. Like this run which has a distance of just under 10 km but we took more than...

In Edinburgh, we were a bit lost what to do. We had visited the Royal Mile the day before and didn't particularly fancy going back there. We also had no desire to visit castles and museums of which there are plenty. Then we discovered Arthur's Seat, an extinct volcano. But we didn't know that. We only knew there was a hiking trail just 20 minutes walk from our B&B and there was a small hill to climb. After getting direction from the boss of the B&B, we walked and came to this place with this signboard Alright, we were right on target. No losing the way this time round. And this was our target or so we thought. But actually this is just the first of the range we got to climb to get to the top which is this one. Yep, the pointy one right at the back at the far left corner The climb up the 250 metres summit was fairly easy and straight forward. We could follow this road  Or just walk up the side of the hill In cool weathe...