September 17, 2009 – 9:37 am
It’s a transition period for me now… you know, kinda like that feeling you get when you start a new job? Excited but worried; meeting new faces, places, characters; settling into a new rhythm.
So please accept my sincere apologies if I’ve not answered your phone call, replied your text, responded to your email, written back [...]
September 11, 2009 – 9:30 am
Snuggled under the warm covers of the comfy hotel bed, clean, fed and needing more than an hour’s nap, getting up at about 9.30pm for Legs 19-24 was literally a drag. For all the excitement I had to race, a small part of me was reluctant to get back to the cramped van, the dirt, [...]
September 10, 2009 – 1:33 pm
And so we set off at about 11am on race day, Aug 28, after having a Singapore Noodles Van 2 team breakfast at a nearby cafe. We had to get to the van handover point, which was adjacent to the carpark of megamart Fred Meyer (something like WalMart), by about noon.
By the time we arrived [...]
September 10, 2009 – 10:11 am
When D invited me to be part of this year’s Hood to Coast team a few months back, and told me the route was over 300km long, my first response was: “Can I run the whole thing?”
No kidding. I think it’d be fun to run the whole course solo someday. But on hindsight I was [...]
September 9, 2009 – 10:03 pm
And so, a 7am flight and two transits (in Narita and Seattle) later, we arrived in Portland, Oregon, on Aug 26 (or Aug 27, Singapore time) which is also famously known as Velo City for its huge bicycle culture. At PDX we picked up a rental car and keyed in the Hotel Monaco address in [...]