Mentom - Singapore 2010

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• La Bretagne, ca vous gagne...

  27 août 2010, par Mentom
  De retour des vacances... et deja envie de repartir ! Quelques images de notre periple en Bretagne :  suite
  

• Beat the sunrise (Singapore Sundown Marathon 2010)

  30 mai 2010, par Mentom
  Last year, on the last meters of my very first Marathon, i said to myself : "never again...". I still remember my day in bed with fever and the agony of the last kilometres (walk...run... walk ... crawl....).
  So, no surprise ; the lessons learnt were forgotten one week after, and I downloaded some training sheets from the Internet in the attempt to "prepare" and avoid the suffering again. I taped them into my wardrobe at the inside of the door, so that i can see them every day.
  The (...)   suite
  

• Year of the (gambling) Tiger

  13 May 2010, by Mentom
  Two weeks ago Singapore opened it’s second casino, since gambling has been legalized. The Marina Bay Sands adds from now on to impressive city skyline. One can question the endless construction sites all over the island, but I am still amazed about the speed things happen here in Asia. I remember the Marina Bay area just three years ago, when I arrived in Singapore.
  There was absolutely nothing on the southern side of the bay. Now, in this short period, a number of sky scrapers had been (...)   continue
  

• Still living in the past

  3 April 2010, by Mentom
  Easter again.
  It is now almost one year that a fiercely debated, long-delayed investigation into Ireland’s Roman Catholic-run institutions has been published. It says priests and nuns of more than 250 church-run institutions terrorized thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades — and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation.
  The report concluded that church officials always shielded their orders’ pedophiles from arrest (...)   continue
  

• North East Run, Singapore 2010

  21 March 2010, by Mentom — 2 Forum messages
  The year just started and we already passed mid March! I am doing steady progress with my marathon preparation, thanks to beeing almost relocated in KL and having a good training facility right under the hotel room : the KLCC park. That’s pretty much the only good thing to be working far from home again :(
  The first greater running challenge of the year, the 16km North East Run in Singapore, is now behind. It was a good fitness test for the upcoming Sundown Marathon, which is now only (...)   continue