Singapore and Malaysia 2018, May 09 (Nothing Important Happened Today)

Last half day in Penang, there wasn't many flight options to KL so picked one for the mid afternoon.

Walked down to Komtar bus terminal again, took a bus towards Gurney Drive. I started walking towards the botanical gardens area, and some temple or other on the way too, but realised it was going to be about three kilometres each way and probably just a bit too far given limited time. Walked through the malls on Gurney Drive instead, seems to be a higher class district and had a lot better looking shopping and restaurant options, too bad it wasn't very close to the city centre. Possibly due to the public holiday there was nobody around either. I should mention the shopping experience is just dreadful, particularly in an empty store, as soon as you enter you get one of the staff members just follow you around not saying anything, so awkward. I'm sure I've encountered this previously, but had thankfully forgotten about it.

There was no beach to see on Gurney Drive, I think it only starts further down the coast, instead you just get a fence as they are doing some land reclamation project that looked to be inactive.

Gurney Drive, nothing to see here.

Just had a bit of time to go back to the city, explore a bit more and get some lunch, but failed to find a good magnet! The taxi to the airport and check-in went much quicker than expected, so got stuck at the airport for over an hour. So in conclusion, I don't think afternoon flights work well, you can't plan out a full day or do anything that is a risk of being delayed, but at least I had time to find a magnet before taking off.

• Penang
• 6 out of 10
• Good
• Cheap
• Street art
• Bad
• Bus travel times
• No credit cards
• Traffic
• Missed out
• Bayan Baru
• Botanic Gardens and hill temple
• Penang national park
• Teluk Bahang

Landed in KL about 5:30pm, got the airport train, then had to change lines and buy a Touch n Go card for the rest of the train network. Their system makes Myki look good. The Touch n Go seems to be a new card which is multi-purpose, you can use it on toll roads for example, except almost no train stations have the recharge machines for them still. All the locals seem to be sticking to the old MYrapid card, which has several machines at every station.

The hotel was inside a large shopping mall, so it was easy to find. Also convenient having lots of food options nearby for a late dinner, but there was no vegetarian alternative most of the time, which was a recurring problem. Landed on a place with a sushi train, but also had proper meals to order off a tablet, much better than having to call a waiter. Somehow I managed to order the same meal three ways - tempura with rice, tempura by itself, rice by itself. Finally got to pay with a credit card again.

What you get when you're not paying attention.

Paul Blart doing the rounds.

Steps: 19,500 (3.5 hours)

Singapore and Malaysia 2018, May 08 (The Hills)

Time to try out breakast buffet v2. The chocolate milk dispenser was the highlight, heaps of choices but not many I was interested in, I don't really understand having hot dinner meals for breakfast. Lucky we got up early for breakfast as there was a queue on the door afterwards waiting for an empty table, probably one of those annoying tour groups all showed up at the same time...

Walk to Komtar bus terminal, for some reason three very similar bus routes all go towards Air Itam aka Ayer Itam, so just take the first one that arrives! Like Melbourne trams they all showed up at the same time. I paid for mobile roaming with my Singapore SIM so I had 1GB to use in Malaysia, which was more than enough for Google Maps.

Got out at the correct stop and started walking to Kek Lok Si Temple, only saw one other person doing the same thing, most people on the bus were locals which was better than tourists. No cost to enter the temple grounds, just a small fee to take the funicular up to the top level or to enter one of the pagodas - didn't understand the reason for the second one.

Walk to Kek Lok Si.

Lots of worship places along the way, had those joss sticks and all of these ribbons you could buy and tie up for good luck, except they all had quite weird English translations. For example, the 'more information' ribbon would be good for vague people, but I'm not sure who needed to 'hurry up'.

My favourite sign.

Who! Who doesn't want to rear the ribbon?

A bit disappointing at the top to see the bronze Kuan Yin statue wasn't quite finished, so you couldn't walk up to it. The main pagoda had about eight levels of narrow spiral staircases, but was good when you finally reached the top.

Pagoda.

George Town in the distance.

Kuan Yin.

Walked the streets to Penang Hill aka Bukit Bendera lower station, about 1.5 kilometres. Got a return trip to the upper station, it's a long ride but if you're not in the very rear cabin looking straight down you can't really see much on the way up.

The vertical train.

I expected some good trails or forest walking tracks at the top, but was just two main roads leading to some place called The Habitat and maybe a monkey enclosure. There was a downhill path that went 5 kilometres all the way to the Botanical Gardens, but there's no nearby connecting bus down there and I'd already paid for a return ticket for the funicular. Got a bus back to George Town, wasn't one of the bus numbers I was looking for, but it worked out.

George Town in the distance.

Had a very late lunch, still haven't managed to pay for anything with credit card yet. I don't understand why Malaysia still hasn't adopted this technology yet. The one dollar notes are fun and all, but I ended up with a wallet that would barely close because of all the notes and coins I was accumulating. When you aren't familiar with the currency it's a bit hard to quickly calculate the correct coins - made more difficult because the 20 cents and 50 cents come in two different colours and sizes!

Pepsi energy drinks.

Due to the amount of walking my legs are usually at breaking point by the end of each day, but a session at the gym and swimming pool actually seemed to help.

Street food outside the hotel.

Steps: 20,000 (3.5 hours)

Singapore and Malaysia 2018, May 07 (GT)

Still haven't perfected holiday travel. A 9:45am flight doesn't sound early, but working backwards became 6:00am breakfast and 6:45am leaving for the airport. And that's why I hate airports, even if you find a good flight time you have to factor in the worst case scenario for: travel to the airport, check-in, customs and immigration, multiple layers of security, boarding. I think late morning flights might be the best as we will find out later...

The flight to Penang didn't take long, maybe an hour and a half. Got a taxi instead of a bus because of  the small price difference and was much more convenient, only took about thirty minutes which was ahead of schedule for once. The driving conditions were similar to Bangkok, cars and motorcycles just drift in and out of lanes, somehow it works.

Just dropped luggage at the hotel and went to find some lunch. There was a shopping mall just down the road but it was deserted. This new product all the bakeries were selling was a chocolate croissant covered in cocoa powder. A chocolate man might enjoy it, but you just end up with chocolate powder everywhere! Also found these Pepsi energy drinks at the 7-eleven that I'd never heard of, pretty good.

Too much chocolate.

Got to check-in at the hotel then went off to explore George Town aka Georgetown for the afternoon.  On foot it was also like Bangkok - no footpaths and you nearly get killed trying to cross the roads. Passed some jetties, I think Clan Jetties and Chew Jetty, walking along these things you are just hoping the whole structure doesn't collapse under your weight.

Looks safe.

Chew jetty.

Went searching for some of the street art around the old town area, found a few good ones, others looked they had almost worn away unfortunately.

Street Art #1

Street Art #2 they like their bicycles.

Ended up at the Esplanade grounds, had a big clock tower and some fort. Decided to get the free city bus back towards the hotel, but it took somewhere between 15-30 minutes to arrive and wasn't worth the wait.

The esplanade.

The bus ended back at the Komtar building, it was difficult to navigate inside but managed to reach level 6 which had an elevator up to an observation deck near the top, not the most exciting of views.

George Town.

Went back to the hotel a bit early, watched Match Of The Day then finally got to try out the hotel pool, always ran out of time in Singapore and never got around to it there. The Singapore one was much better too, one of those infinity pools on the roof.

Steps: 21,000 (3.5 hours)

Singapore and Malaysia 2018, May 06 (Paper League)

Took the train to Harbourfront, not the same as Bayfront. Got tickets for a cable car to Sentosa, I walked all the way from Mount Faber to the island last time instead, took forever. On the way over I noticed some of the hotel suites have their own private pools, should have stayed there!

Could be almost anywhere.

Just walked around the waterfront area. Not too much to do there if you aren't going to Universal Studios or the waterpark - which I already knew from last time but Jason wanted to go for some reason. Ended up at Siloso Beach, so hot without any shade around. Waited for the bus to Siloso Point instead of walking all the way to the end. They had some dirt bike (sand bike) course built on the sand, the bikes were just getting stuck in the sand though, they weren't very good.

Think where we'd be without sand!

Got some lunch before leaving Sentosa, just missed a heap of rain but it only lasted a few minutes, not a big deal when it's hot anyway. Got the cable car all the way to the top of Mount Faber, walked along to Henderson Waves and back, so many steps. Final cable car trip back to the beginning again at the harbour.

There wasn't enough time to go exploring in Bukit Timah forest, maybe next time. Instead got a train to Jurong East, which is actually to the west, the train was really slow. A quick detour to IMM Outlets but I knew what to expect - that's right, Nike only had size 12 shoes! I was just looking for some shorts anyway, but didn't find any. The Adidas store was garbage, one of those places where they only have small or extra large for sale.

Running low on time, hardly had time to get some dinner and didn't get to walk past the Chinese or Japanese Gardens on the way to the soccer stadium.

Is this the Chinese gardens, or Japanese gardens?

The match was Albirex Niigata vs Hougang United. Albirex was the home team, like a satelitte youth team for a bigger Japanese club. We just walked in the first entrance, somehow everyone else seemed to know this was for away fans, but at least it wasn't as full. The only problem was the visiting fans had some drum kit they were playing non-stop, so bad for my ears which don't like loud noises anymore. The quality of the teams wasn't terrible, they just had no ability to create chances when attacking. The home team had won 30 home games in a row, but just barely got a 1-0 win with a free kick goal towards the end.

Are you ready for some loud drums?

Got a stream going for the Red Bull Wings For Life run, on at a slightly better time in Singapore than Melbourne. Hadn't considered running in it though.

Steps: 30,000 (5 hours)

• Singapore
• 8 out of 10
• Good
• Bakeries
• Cheap 100gb SIM card
• Driverless trains
• Bad
• Marina Bay Sands
• Replacing a SIM card
• Running a race after a day of walking
• The walking distance between underground train platforms
• Missed Out
• Botanical Gardens
• Bukit Timah
• Chinese and Japanese gardens

Singapore and Malaysia 2018, May 05 (The Temperature Strikes Back)

Got the train around to Fort Canning Park, bit of a walk uphill to get to the actual park from the closest train station though. Waited around for the Battlebox tour to start at 9:45am, the staff were a bit late. The tour was a guided underground headquarters bunker tour about World War 2, Singapore being invaded by Japan and surrendered. An interesting story, I don't know a whole lot about Malaysia and Singapore during the wars. The only negative was no photos allowed.

Outside Battlebox.

Walked back down the hill to Orchard Road, aka shopping mall road. Not as hot walking outside today. Just had time for lunch, then went to a pre-booked session at Sandbox VR. For this you get put in a room with a VR headset and motion detection gear, there's a few different games but in each one you have to shoot all of the enemies that are invading your area - a lot like those Call Of Duty zombie survival mode mini-games.

The technology is very cool, the only limitation is you can't move around too much, have to stay within a designated square. I tried looking around a lot at the start to check out all of the entrances, like you would do in a normal FPS game, but you can get dizzy very quickly doing this! You can revive the other players when they die by touching them on the shoulder for a few seconds, but it was a little confusing when you were supposed to do this. I got the game MVP with 56% accuracy, I was trying to be accurate and go for head shots, but I'm not actually sure if that mattered.

Train back to the hotel, fiddled around blindly at the back of the TV, since it was attached to the wall, and managed to get a HDMI cable attached to stream some NBA games. Wouldn't normally be in the hotel during the afternoon but was getting a quick bit of rest and preparing for the Star Wars Run at 5:00pm.

In the race instructions they said you had to get to the start by 4:30pm or you might not be allowed to line up - a complete lie. I got a good spot near the front due to this misinformation, but they were still letting people show up until like 5:10pm and even seemed to delay the start for them. They had two separate lines on the F1 grid for the light side and dark side, but only my section (light side) was in the shade from the pit buildings at the beginning!

I didn't think I'd win this race but thought I could do alright...that was until I saw some Kenyan runners doing their warmup. The prizes weren't huge, but $1000 and a $600 Garmin watch for first is reasonable, still wouldn't provide much profit if you travelled just for this.

Anyway, the half hour prior to the race I spent stretching out my hamstring, since it was feeling pretty bad since yesterday, but getting a little better. Right before the start the stupid 60, 70 and 80 minutes pacers all came right up to the front! I'm here planning to run under 45 minutes, yet a 80 minute pacer with balloons thinks they need to start in front of me, and start taking group selfies, so stupid.

I think I'm just behind the two green balloons.

Finally we were off, I got out of the way of the pacers just before the start, but nearly crashed into slow people in the front few rows, as they were basically at walking speed. I went out way too quick at the start, about 4:00/km for the first two kilometres in the heat. It was such a bad strategy, probably because of the minor injury I didn't have a race plan in mind. I realised I should slow down by the third kilometre but had already done the damage. Drink stations were every 2.5 kilometres but the cups were so tiny they did not help, so I was dead before getting to the 5km 'drink' station.

I was feeling worse in the second half going along Gardens By The Bay, but didn't slow down too much, a few near misses with pedestrians though. The last couple of kilometres back over the bridge was pretty terrible, but managed to make the finish line without stopping. My time was 42:20 but Garmin only registered 9.74 kilometres, maybe it missed a bit somewhere. Official times was 42:15 23rd of 2245 and Jason 49:42 76th. They don't have a results leaderboard, only a manual name search, so I don't know who the winners were.

I grabbed a carton of drink at the end, I thought it was some kind of juice but it was coconut water! Yuck! I must have gone through about eight cups of water instead, got another t-shirt and a finisher medal as well. Overall a fun race, the only issues were the long wait to start and inadequate drink stations.

I walked around and did a lot of stretching of my calf which was starting to cram up, got some dinner and back to the hotel. Rested again, then out to try the Clarke Quay again. Had better timing tonight, getting on a cruise almost immediately. The cruise went out to Marina Bay for a loop and came back, good views at night, lucky to sit on the good side for photos. The Singapore Flyer was red and blue to celebrate the Star Wars Run apparently.

The merlion.

Marina Bay Sands.

Step: 12,000 (2 hours) + 10km run etc.

Singapore and Malaysia 2018, May 04 (Enter Sands)

All the hotels had buffet breakfasts, convenient but not so good for your weight.

I tried to get my SIM card slot open, but the safety pins were so weak they just kept bending and I didn't want to break the slot release either. Eventually gave up, but bought a SIM card from a different 7-eleven store, lucky I had read that you need your passport to buy one! The official Samsung shop wasn't open yet to help get by SIM card out.

Had to line up at the service desk at the train station to buy a tourist three day unlimited pass, it's not available from the machines. The people at the front were buying tickets on behalf of a group of like 50 people, took 20 minutes just to serve them, everyone waiting looked annoyed.

Finally got the train to Bayfront, forgot to turn on my phone to count the steps for the day so far. Walked over to Gardens By The Bay, had been here before but didn't go into the two paid observatories.

• Flower Dome - good diverse selection of plants from different continents, the Australia section was alright
• Cloud Forest - not as good, a bit like an indoor rain forest, but not as much to see

Flower Dome.

Cloud Forest.

Walked back over to the Sands, the shopping mall is just ridiculous, takes forever to walk from one end of the other, should have levels instead like every other shopping mall ever built. The food court was a bit crap, got tickets to the Sands Sky Park instead. I didn't have much expectation, but had walked so far just got it anyway. It was disappointing for whatever it cost, just had access to an observation deck, not even rooftop gardens or anything. Then had to walk most of the way back through the Sands again to get the train station. Probably would have been better to walk outside and over the bridge.

From the Sands sky park.

I found a couple of those mobile phone kiosks in the next shopping mall, they all seemed puzzled by my question about the SIM card slot. So gave up again, got lunch instead.

Walked over to Singapore Flyer, I ran out of time on the previous visit. A big group of tourists in front thought they owned the place, trying to arrange their own private cabins and numbers to go in each, hate those tourists. The recorded audio playing during the trip was pointless, the wheel goes very slow so you have plenty of time to look around. It was surprising how many large apartment towers they have all the way to the east coast, all look identical, a bit depressing if you lived there.

From the Singapore Flyer.

The Star Wars Run festival had just started near the F1 pit buildings, walked over to collect race pack for tomorrow. Got a tote bag, running shirt, some kind of picnic mat - different coloured stuff if you sign up for the light side (blue) or dark side (red). I got a medium t-shirt which fit alright but not great, not the first or last time I forgot about 'asian sizes'. Waited around a bit for some tribute band to play, started with the main theme song then didn't recognise the rest so didn't stay long.

Star Wars Run festival.

Star Wars band, not sure what they do the rest of the year.

Train back towards the hotel to Chinatown, got my SIM card slot open at the Samsung store! but they had none of the tools for sale. Had a quick rest at the hotel, legs were way too tired, not good race preparation. Got a bit of energy back, walked down to one of the Chinatown hawker centres. Didn't eat much, but also McDonald's had a veggie crunch burger on the way back!

Went to Clarke Quay to see if any boats were running, was 20-30 minutes wait so going to try again later.

Steps: 25,000 (4 hours)

Singapore and Malaysia 2018, May 03 (Prologue)

Just a whole day spent (wasted) travelling, the standard for travelling international:

• 8:30am
• Stuck in traffic in Greensborough!
• 9.30am
• The Qantas check-in line took forever, expected better from a 'premium' airline
• 12:00pm
• Left almost on time
• 1:00pm
• Watched Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, not great but helped pass the time
• 6.00pm
• Arrived in Singapore, got a bonus 2 hours from the timezone change
• 7.00pm
• The immigration queue took like half an hour, just wasn't moving
• Had those stupid individual lines instead of a single long line
• 7:30pm
• Managed to get money from the ATM using my bank card, off to a good start this time
• Didn't buy a SIM card yet, realised I forgot I can't get the SIM card slot open!
• 9:00pm
• Train to Chinatown, had to change lines after one stop, then took about an hour
• Still like 25 degrees outside, walk to hotel
• 10:00pm
• Had a quick walk around to get some good, found some safety pins
• 7-eleven had all advertising on the door about SIM cards, but had run out of everything!
• 7-eleven was selling Match Attax cards at least

2018 Goals

These are the 2018 goals, finally up to date.

• Blog
• Aiming for 50 again, don't have plans for many new topics
• And getting updates done on time!
• Car
• Just see how it goes, house is more important than a car for this year
• Not sure how many years I've been saying that now
• Fitness
• Bike
• Not sure what a good distance goal would be, particularly over winter, maybe 1000 kilometres to start with
• Just finding a way to include bike riding in my schedule would be a success
• Run
• Get a new PB for 5km and 10km
• Might already a bit behind trying to break the yearly distance record
• At least a couple of interstate or international events
• Go to 10 new parkruns, although they are starting to get further away
• Triathlon
• See how the bike goes first, a possibility for the 2018-19 season now at least
• Weight
• Get back to 70 kilograms during the year
• Food
• Might need to get a better diet than bread or fruit for dinner often
• Holiday
• Thinking about finally getting to do another mid-year trip to South East Asia
• Hawaii at the end of the year with a running event possibly
• House
• Hopefully this could be the year
• Prices not going up is the best hope at this stage
• Money
• Shares
• Get to 450 at least, maybe 500 if the market is stable
• Music
• Don't have much choice on this if nobody is touring
• 10 events would probably be a success
• Reading
• Being less tired would be a good start, then try to get through 10 books
• Sport
• Get Foxtel
• Possibly some AFL and NBL games
• Nothing really worth attending the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games
• Study
• Ideally both AWS and Mule certification exams
• To Do List
• Items on my to do list sit around forever
• Need to get better at getting things done and not delaying
• Video Games
• Should finish Final Fantasy XIII-2, about two years after starting
• Get the Xbox One setup
• Buy a Nintendo Switch
• Work
• Don't expect any change for the year
• Getting promoted to the next job title seems unlikely given the current situation

2017 Review

This is the 2017 review at last, just earlier than last years.
I seem to have failed a lot more 2017 goals than I expected.

• Blog
• 38 posts was not far off the goal of 50
• Only had a short holiday report and the other regular posts
• Car
• Didn't have any issues or need major repairs, so still not a priority to replace it
• Fitness
• Bike
• Just got the bike in time, but didn't ride it
• Need to come up with some riding routes
• Run
• Came down with an injury in the first half of the year
• No personal bests, very close for 5km since the previous best was only 4.92km
• Happy to get back to decent times for 15km and half marathon at the end of the year
• About 1000 kilometres short of best distance for a year
• 2016 running review
• 2017 running review
• Triathlon
• No swimming or triathlon activities
• Weight
• Has been a big frustration, stuck at the same level all year regardless of exercise
• Food
• Decided that baking could wait until I improve fitness and weight
• Holiday
• Work kept getting extended, so missed out on a good mid year holiday
• March - Canberra
• May - Apollo Bay doesn't really count, and was injured too
• November - New Zealand
• December - NSW South Coast and Canberra
• House
• A minor slow down in prices, but Melbourne still increased the most!
• Was hoping for some interest rate increases to help, but it's getting further away
• Going on my usual luck, I'll buy a house just as prices fall
• Money
• Shares
• I did fairly well for the year, helped by a few exceptional results, finally a goal achieved
• Up about 70k for existing investments and added 80k more
• Started a small investment loan for about 20k
• Last three years: 92k, 190k, 360k
• Super
• Went from 240k to 280k
• Not a huge increase if charted out over the next 20 years or so
• Music
• Not many band tours, but 2018 is looking better so far
• March - Spoon
• May - Real Estate
• June - Crystal Castles
• December - Muse
• Reading
• Haven't been reading for a while now, usually tired on the train or listening to podcasts
• Study
• Went to an AWS training session, haven't taken the exam yet
• A failure to not have one certification for the year again
• TV
• Some favourite shows for the year:
• The Challenge
• The Leftovers
• Twin Peaks Season 3
• Utopia
• Video Games
• Not much to report, failed on my goal of unpacking the Xbox One
• PC - Alwa's Awakening - a fun indie game but not too challenging
• PC: River City Ransom Underground - disappointing
• Xbox 360 - Stuck on Final Fantaxy XII-2 for the whole year!
• Work
• Good to finally have a change to a new company
• Not so good having to take two weeks of at the end of the year
• Still have managed to have a little leave carried over to this year

2017 Running Review

This year was mixed again - started well, then out of action with a bad ankle injury that ran through most of April to July and was a big setback for fitness. See 2015 and 2016 for previous years with the same format.

The totals:

• 2192.18 kilometres - 929.92 for the previous year and 3132.14 for the best year
• 168 hours - 72 for the previous year and 236 for the best year

The major events for the year were:

• January
• Rosebud Australia Day - 10km - 38:59 @ 3:56/km
• Feburary
• Warburton - 21km - 1:31:06 @ 4:20/km (not competitive)
• March
• Sri Chinmoy Canberra - 10km - 39:55 @ 4:01/km
• April
• Injured
• May
• Red Bull Wings For Life - 15km - 1:30:54 @ 6:05/km (injured)
• June
• Traralgon - 10km - 39:22 @ 4:00/km
• Sri Chinmoy Albert Park - 10km - 39:13 @ 3:58/km
• July
• Sri Chinmoy Princes Park - 10km - 40:14 @ 4:04/km
• August
• Shepparton - 10km - 39:27 @ 3:59/km
• September
• Harvest Run - 13km - 56:30 @ 4:19/km
• October
• Melbourne Marathon - 21km - 1:27:09 @ 4:06/km
• November
• Bendigo Bank - 10km - 40:08 @ 4:02/km
• City2Sea - 15km - 59:58 @ 4:01/km
• Rotorua - 21km - 1:33:03 @ 4:29/km

There's some interesting patterns from the list. There's one race a month usually, and I've been frustratingly stuck at 4:00/km all year, although the City2Sea result is probably the best since it was over 15 kilometres, and the speed at the Melbourne Marathon wasn't too bad either.

Added 18 new parkrun locations to the list, passed 50 and getting close to 100.

• Albert Park
• Berwick Springs
• Chelsea Bicentennial
• Coburg
• Darebin
• Diamond Creek
• Hagley (New Zealand)
• Hastings Foreshore
• Highlands
• Karkarook
• Maribyrnong
• Marriott Waters
• Merimbula
• Parkville
• Puarenga (New Zealand)
• Sale
• Studley
• Wilson Botanic

Here's a summary of parkruns by year:

• 2015 - 13 starting from June 13 at Westerfolds Park
• 2016 - 29
• 2017 - 48

This is how my 2017 bests compare with all time bests:

• 2017
• 5.00km Karkarook parkrun 18:29 3:42/km
• 9.89km Rosebud Australia Day 38:59 3:56/km
• 14.90km City 2 Sea 59:58 4:01/km
• 21.28km Melbourne Marathon 1:27:09 4:06/km
• All Time
• 4.92km Jells parkrun 18:14 3:42/km (November 28 2015)
• ~10.00km Albert Park VRR 38:30 3:51/km (May 25 2014)
• 14.73 City 2 Sea 56:55 3:52/km (November 15 2015)
• 21.16km Melbourne Marathon 1:23:23 3:56/km (October 18 2015)

For 2018 my only goals are to try and avoid a long term injury and get a best time for 5 and 10 kilometres.