Running for Water

Last Sunday Ruth and I got up early. This is something that we both do far too regularly on Sunday (and Saturday come to that), but this time we had a good reason.

In January a company email invited me to run for water... not becuase we really need to here, but because in Africa lots of people do. Aparently the average distance is 6km, so Water Aid arranged a series of 6km runs 'for water'. The Singapore version start on the grand prix grid, and we got to have a good nosy around the pits - which are really quite boring when they're not full of cars.

The run was a nice picturesque flat route around the bay, which the Dodgess and I did in about 42 minutes, which was well into the top half. This is by no means my fastest ever 6km, but it's my first ever timed 6km. So in that it is a personal best I guess. And we did enjoy it. Being Singapore it was impeccably organised - we waited all of 30 seconds to collect our bags, and arrived on the newly opened (1 day old) Metro system. They did though miss a trick with the water stops. Surely they should have made us run 6km for our water - not given it to us after 3km... Mind you, even at 8am the temperature was nudging 28 or so, and the humidity probably over 80%. We certainly appreciated getting the water 3km early!

I didn't really get too many photos... but the one below shows the pits - and also my work tower in the background...