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I apparently forgot to make a post about the whole reason I brought back my website, the Singapore Marathon!  Cindy and I decided to challenge ourselves to run in it, with her doing the 1/2 marathon and myself doing the 10km run.  It was our first time for either race, and we spent the last few months training for it.  My training started off pretty spotty, but by race day,  I can proudly say that running for 30 minutes isn’t a problem anymore!  Cindy did her 1/2 marathon in <strong>under 2 hours</strong>, and I managed to get through my 10km in 1 hr 19 min.  Not the best time certainly, but I’m happy I was able to do it.  I likely would’ve made better time, but at the 5km mark we had a steep bridge to go up, and that just took the wind out of me from that point on.  I simply hadn’t trained for that kind of steepness.  Up until then though, I had really been kicking my treadmill time by a fair margin.  Best of all for me though, is that this was 2 days after my 30th birthday – I really proved I was in the best shape of my life, and I hope to get better.  I’ve slacked in December some on continuing to run, but I will be getting back into the swing of things for January.

I had some work to take care of that week afterward, but we did manage to make our way out to the Singapore Zoo.  We had done the night safari last year, but the zoo proper is just astounding, right up there with the San Diego Zoo.

And to share the general photos of Singapore