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February15
Learn from the past,
set vivid, detailed
goals for the future,
and live in the only
moment of time over
which you have any
control: now.
– Denis Waitley
Setting goals is the
first step in turning
the invisible into the
visible.
– Tony Robbins
FEBRUARY
7
Safari Zoo Run
4pm, 6/12K
8
Terry Fox Run
7.30am, 5/10K, East Coast, Big Splash
14
Brooks Marina Run
5.30pm, 10/21K, Gardens by the Bay
15
Marina Party Dash
5pm, 5K, Gardens by the Bay
MARCH
1
Men’s Health Urbanathlon
7am, 14K, Kallang Practice Track
8
Green Corridor Run
7am, 10.5K, Tanjong Pagar Rail Station
9
Venus Run
7.30am, 5K, Gardens by the Bay
28-29
Twilight Ultra Challenge
7pm, 5/10K laps in 16 hrs, ECP Area F
29
2XU Compression Run
5.30am, 21.1/10/5K, F1 Pit Building
APRIL
5
NTUC Income RUN 350
5am, 800m kids’ dash, 10/21K, F1 Pit Building
11
The Music Run
4pm, 5K, Sentosa
in honour of her mother’s recent recovery
from cancer. Not just any marathon; the
very next New York marathon, no less.
With only eight months to go from
zero to hero, my irrepressibly optimistic
pal asked me for training advice – and
then blithely ignored it. For one thing, she
refused to set any interim goals, apart
from joiningme in a jolly 5K jog (for breast
cancer) around a leafy park in Hampton
one sunny Saturday morning in June.
You can guess the outcome of Lottie’s
first (and last) marathon: a miserable
seven sleety hours on the deceptively
hilly NYC course, crossing the finish
line way after the cut-off time, and with
injuries that have kept her from running
ever since.
In retrospect, though, who’s to say she
failed? The goal she’d set herself was to
complete that one marathon, and that’s
exactly what she did.
As it happens, my current goal is a very
different one: to continue being able to
run moderate, knee-sparing distances
into old age, or for as long asmy body lets
me. And whatever your goal happens to
be, it’s as ineffably individual as you are.