Time to get a new pair of running shoe

Have clocked in more than 400km on my current pair of shoes bought in July 2008, almost a year old.

Went to Expo for special Adidas sales promotion of up to 70%. The good shoes were all sold out. No Adizero shoes and only one pair of running shoes (about S$62) look fairly decent. Totally disappointed.

Bought 2 pairs of Adidas running socks (Gymtrain Sock3) for $10, if buy one only it will cost $6. Bought an Adidas black color plastic drinking bottle (700ml) also.

Then drove to Link Building at Chang Charn Road (off Leng Kee Rd) which is having sales of up to 80% off for Adidas, Nike and Puma.

Found 3 type of Adizero shoes of which one is blue color (Adizeo Breeze), another is yellow with small amount of black (Adizero Ace) and last one is black wtih small amount of yellow (Adizero Ace). The blue color one is an older model.

Bought the Black color (with a bit of yellow color pair for $106. Original price before discount was $152. Looks like a very good pair of light running shoe. Was a bit worry about the front sole which look a little fragile.

Have been an Adidas fan. All my running gears are pretty much all Adidas... socks, shoes, shorts, t-shirts, etc.

Finished Reading "Outliers" book

Completed reading the book "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell. Very interesting book and provide some new insights into "Intelligence", "IQ", etc vs "Long Hour of Practise", etc.

Interesting new ideas and findings. Highly recommended.

TR463 from KL to Singapore 22:25 to 23:25

Took TigerAirway TR463 from KL back to Singapore 22:25 to 23:25. Bought a pair of Adidas running socks (CREW) at the KL LCCT. Cost me RM$15.90.

Arrived airport earlier by 15 minutes. Limo was already there early to pick me and reached home before midnight.

16km run in Jenjarom Malaysia

In Jenjarom Malaysia this week visiting my mom.

Did a 16km run today. Trying to increase weekly runs total distance by about 10% to 20% for each week in preparation for Dec-2009 full marathon event. Trying to do more Long Slow Distance (LSD) runs.

Ran in the village for 12km around the neighborhood.

Ran another 4.5km around the running track in the park in front of my younger brother's house.

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"Those who give have all things. Those who withhold have nothing." - Hindu Proverb

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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

TR454 from Singapore to KL 12:15 to 13:10

Took TigerAirway TR454 from Singapore to KL 12:15 to 13:10 to visit mom.
Bought a 2-way low cost air-ticket.
Cost a total of S$70.00 all-in.

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"Learn to think independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece."
- Ralph Charell What's your next move?

Run 15km in Seletar Hills residential area

Did a 15km Long Slow Run (LSD). Ran quite leisurely and looking at the surrouneding scenery and houses. Quite a comfortable run. Overall timing I think is around 1:30hr.

The bottom of the feet has a slight stress or pain feeling recently in last week runs. Either due to high speed running down the slope at UPR or due to longer distance runs. Need to be careful and listen to the body closer to avoid any running injury.

Was carrying a small bottle of 100-Plus with me during the run.

Assuming if there is a calibration error on my Garmin watch of 10%, the actual distance should be about 13.5km and time is 1:30hr... which means about 9km/hr average speed.

Quite happy to complete 15km run as planned today. Next to do is to try to clock in 40km per week run in preparation for Dec-09 full marathon event.