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TnT's Workout Blog

"Are you guys runners? You look like runners.
They are my favorite kind of people."
 - Christy Shimp
@ Wed 31/12/2008
Exercise Run
Course West Coast Park
Distance 5.18K (4849 steps)
Time 29:30
Comments Ave 128, max 143, +26C, a cooler morning. First run in one and a half weeks, and fine it went. Have I ever mentioned, that there is a guy in the park playing flute in the mornings? It is really nice!
@ Sun 28/12/2008
Exercise Bicycling
Course Bukit Timah mountain bike trail
Distance 30.17K
Time 2:27'22 (Ave 12.2kph, max 32.1kph)
Comments Another episode in the adventure series 'TnT in Singapore.' Most of our rides so far have lead to the western part of the island. Today, we want to explore the mid section, and since riding on the streets is a nightmare, we are especially interested in the mountain biking trail system in the Bukit Timah Nature Reserve.

The original plan is to ride all around the reserve, but after finishing the six kilometer loop, we are homebound. Our mountain biking skills do not quite match the trail challenges. Some sections are steep and rocky, some sections just very narrow, so we end up walking the bikes a lot. And of course, there are some stairs in which we have to carry the bikes up. It is a lot of fun, though, and excellent exercise. We see some monkeys, too.

By the way, Bukit Timah is the highest hill in Singapore, and depending on the source, it rises between 163 and 167 meters above the sea level. The biking trail does not go to the top. This as many other hills in Singapore, has been chipped away by quarry operations for the landfills.
@ Thu 25/12/2008
Comments Happy Holidays to you, our dear reader! You may see some inactivity here these days, since both of us are down with sinus infection. On the positive side, we finally have some time to work on the Iceland diary. On the other hand, I can't wait to use my new Multi-Purpose Fitness Gloves Santa brought me for the BodyPump classes. Here are some pictures of our neighborhood from today: trees lining Pasir Panjang Road, flowers at West Coast Road, and a Christmas tree at the West Coast Plaza shopping mall.
@ Sun 21/12/2008
Exercise Run
Course Pandan reservoir
Distance 15.3K (16.97K, 15887 steps)
Time 1:46:37
Comments Ave 143, +30C, partly cloudy. We boldly go for a early afternoon run without taking any water with us, but just ten dollars. Carrying a bottle while running is a nuisance, but leaving it behind is still a huge mistake. This time the rain arrives an hour too late, when we are home orready.
@ Sat 20/12/2008
Exercise Sledding
Comments One of our colleague is leaving to Chicago to do his postdoc, and we organized him a memorable farewell by taking him to Snow City in an attempt to acclimatizing him to the windy city weather, without the wind, though. We expected a lot of fun activities in the snow, but the place turned out to be quite pathetic. We spent most of the time queuing for the snow tubing, sliding down a small artificial hill in car tubes. That part was fun. After three times in the downhill our colleagues were so frozen, we left for dinner. For the comparison, I put here some pictures from our past two skiing trips to Finnish Lapland in 2006 and 2008.
@ Fri 19/12/2008
Exercise Run
Course Kent Ridge Park
Distance 6.44K (6022 steps)
Time 34:33
Comments Ave 143, +26C, nice breeze. Running to the top Kent Ridge was as hard as ever. The heart rate rocketed upto 165 in the ascent.
@ Wed 17/12/2008
Exercise Run
Course West Coast Park
Distance 7.89 (7381 steps)
Time 41:07
Comments Heart rate monitor did not cooperate this time either: it displayed rates from 170 to 180 for the first quarter of the run. The distance wasn't really any longer than we usually run, we were just slower.
@ Mon 15/12/2008
Exercise Pilates
Comments No balancing this time, but we did some other interesting and challenging movement on the mat.
@ Sun 14/12/2008
Exercise Run
Course West Coast Park
Distance 7:46 (6984 steps)
Time 38:23
Comments Ave 147, +24C, rain. The average heart rate is incorrect, since the monitor displayed something like 187 most of the time, which apparently was not right. We planned for a long run, but rain made us change the plan. We ran the usual route in the park, but a little faster.
@ Sat 13/12/2008
Exercise BodyPump
Comments I am totally lost on what program we are currently doing. The new release no 68 should be out, but I don't think we followed it closely. Even if the program was unfamiliar I used heavier weights in everything else but biceps.
@ Fri 12/12/2008
Exercise Run
Course Kent Ridge Park
Distance 6.78K (6344 steps)
Time 36:54
Comments Ave 140, +26C, cool, a little fog in the morning. Huffin' and puffin' to the top of Kent Ridge again. Good to know that there is still something that takes my breath away. Tomi enjoyed this early morning run as well.
@ Wed 10/12/2008
Exercise Run
Course West Coast Park
Distance 5.04K (4714 steps)
Time 33:21
Comments Ave 125, +27C, cooler. Nice and easy early morning run.
@ Tue 09/12/2008
Exercise RPM
Comments This lunch time workout attracted considerable crowd. This time I used more resistance than before: should feel it tomorrow even if I don't feel it now. To our great delight, the Koren restaurant at level 2 and the food court in the basement are open as of today. That multiplies our lunch options N times. Today we try the first stall in the food court and have laksa and some beef noodles, for SGD3.5 each.
@ Sun 07/12/2008
Comments We spend the Sunday exploring our current home country a bit more. Disappointed by the IU's soccer men's devastating loss to St John's in college cup's quarterfinals, we skp the bike ride, since it is relatively late already. Instead, we take a walking tour in Chinese Garden and Japanese Garden. The entry to the gardens is free.

We visit the Bonsai Garden and The Live Turtle and Tortoise Museum. The former exhibits the Chinese art and history of growing Bonsai trees, while the latter hosts a couple of hundred live turtles and tortoises, and also thousands of turtle artefacts, made from anything between wood, plastic, various metals, and marble, but also tens of stuffed animals. The museum also displays a map of where all the live and artificial animals come from: most of them are from South-East Asia and Northern America, but also from Finland!
@ Sat 06/12/2008
Exercise BodyCombat + BodyPump
Comments The combat class was super popular, and was running late because of the beginning's microphone problems. We also stayed for the bodypump. I used more weights for the chest than ever before. The tricep workout was a killer. Now it is time to start preparing for the evening's independence day reception organized by the Embassy of Finland and the Finnish Business Council. Hyvää Itsenäisyyspäivää!
@ Fri 05/12/2008
Exercise Run
Course West Coast Park
Distance 7.51K (7026 steps)
Time 39:31
Comments Ave 135, +26C. It is really humid after yesterday's massive rain.
@ Wed 03/12/2008
Exercise Run
Course Science Park II - Kent Ridge Park
Distance 6.81K (6372 steps)
Time 35:31
Comments Ave 138. This is the first time we run the whole way up (and down) to the Kent Ridge Park. It is a very steep ascent, and it made my heart rate rocket from 133 to 159.
@ Mon 01/12/2008
Exercise Pilates
Comments Another session with feet high up in the air. We did some moves different from last week.