Night Hawk #12 - Alls Well Ends Well

Field Report filed by FatBird Anthony
Photo Slideshow by FatBird Keonz

Operation NightHawk - The Final Episode

It was a nice cool morning breeze that greeted the 35 of us for the final installment of Operations NightHawk - Marathon Training for Sundown 2009. With the Final Showdown just next Sat evening, and the Passion Race just ahead the next day, there was an equal group of runners going for 10km and the slightly longer 18km....nonetheless, these will be easy, tapering runs just to keep the engines warm.

NightHawkers ready to start off

For once, I was with the 10km group, and it was fun running alongside David Shum, Amy, Yong, Suan, Beng, and the rest. Arnie joined us for the 10km too, while her friend Annie had gone for 18km. Bumped into Thow Wee who was with his AHM unit group training. There were many groups of army units doing their training at ECP....Ayin and Eugene were spotted too. We had a nice chat about how we have come from our Army 2.4km IPPT runs to the 42km marathons that we do on a regular basis today.

As we approached F2, the U-Turn for 10km, more familiar faces were spotted. The 18km group was already up in front, turning at NSRCC. I joined Jancy and Rita for a short portion on the way back, before meeting David Tay and his team resting after the adiNation weekend run. Luke mentioned that Benny did a superbly fast 2hr51min at a recent Japanese Marathon....wow, that guy is so fast now. It was good to catch up with the Pacer group whom I did pacing with at the SCSM07 Marathon.

We were greeted with Ribena-flavoured Sng Pao at the finish....yummy. I had two of those, and not a sip of 100plus....haha. We cheered the Team FatBird runners coming back to finish their final run for the NightHawk Program. Many had stuck with the training program for 8-12 weeks, and have seen many positive results and benefits. The group had become much closer, with many runners knowing one another by first names.

Cooldown stretching by Annie

Mini Sundown Preparations discussion

Annie conducted a round of nice cooldown stretches for us. We had a group discussion on what to expect and prepare for the actual race day on May30. We would like to wish our Operation NightHawk trainees and running partners success at the Sundown Marathon. In our eyes, they are already winners at the start line. We are pleased that the 12-week Operations NightHawk had concluded smoothly and successfully - Alls Well Ends Well :)