Joy and Nomi took the plunge and signed up for their first 10km running race ever in May 2010 in Singapore at the Sundown Race event...Then they trained for a half marathon in the fall of 2010, Joy's in Canada and Nomi's in Malaysia...Then, they finished their second-ever half marathon in Singapore May 2011 at the Sundown Race event, but this time they ran together!

Then their sporting paths diverged: Nomi went on to run marathons while Joy learned how to ride a bike. This blog charts their progress from 2010 to 2012.

Read their blog to see what their sporting adventures look like or just look at the pictures of Canada's capital city and Malaysia's capital city. You can choose the "follow" option or subscribe via email to be notified of updates. (You can start reading/skimming their first entries from the summer of 2010 or just jump right in, reading from any point you like. The "Archives" will be your guide.)

Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Something new......


Nomi says...

Well, my friend Lulu is really into the running bug...she's so enthusiastic about things, it's really infectious. So, she says...." You know what ? Shall we do an off road run?????? And she proceeds to question her sanity....
So the both of us have now signed up for a 14km off road run in October...we don't really know what we're in for...we don't know exactly how to train for it, but we do know that we need new shoes ( ah...the joys of shopping), we need lots of bug repellent, lots of enthusiasm and it promises to be a mud fest.
So, once we get our new shoes we'll start running trails...well, easy ones to start with. So, i figure we'll run on road and off road on alternate days.. Our on road runs are on pretty flat terrain.Mainly to build up endurance. The off roads ones will be in trails with rocks, roots and mud...to build up strength, use muscles we probably don't know we have and we need to run hills too.
Now, this run does have and obstacle course at the end. Before taking up running seriously ( sort of) i used to box, to build up the strength in upper body and core muscles. Now, do i dare Lulu to join me? What say you Lulu? We need to be stronger for this venture of ours, you know....
Now if only Joy could do this with us:)
So , i suppose, now I've got to research on how to do this. Read more books,trawl the internet....get Joy to send me links....:)
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