Part 1 (off-topic a bit):
woke up before sunrise,felt mighty proud of myself (my dad tot i stayed up the whole nite).went to causeway p0int for breakfast,then slowly made my way to Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve.why?cuz when I bought my KSOs, the sales guy told me he went trail running at LCK area, so i was interested to know where. so i went to www.mapmyrun.com to look for a green patch on the map.And found SBWR to be somewhat near LCK area,so had considered visiting the reserve then run to LCK for a run.the reserve was boring for me (not a nature/bird/photog fan),so i just walked around quickly and smoked out.and chickened out of my running-to-LCK-area plan (1st time wearing the 5fingers,i tot i shouldn't do any crazy distances).so.took MRT to CCK for more food,then took bus to the end of LCK road at the police coast guard base.
Part 2 LCK run (about 8k):
walked around the place a bit, trying to remember the academic stuff when i went on a field trip to a nearby stretch of (dirty) beach for a WW2 history class. nope,din ring a bell. neway started running LCK road.made a few small detours, 1 to buy 2 small bottles of choc goats milk for the road. passed the entrance to sarimbun camp, passed a road which is supposed to lead to Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve (but din explore,cuz,no crazy distances,remember?), passed the entrance to Sungei Gedong camp,passed the old Ama Keng village,passed the 'green island' on the road...ah,the memories..neway the shaded parts (Sungei Gedong camp area) were pretty ok,just run on pedestrian path or side of the road.but it was eewily hot once i reached the long-stretch-of-road-that-doubles-as-emergency-runway part (that was about 1pm).so.plonked my way to the cemeteries at the end of LCK road,then bwey lun n took bus back to JP for more food.
Start of the run. Pretty well shaded. Sorry no pics of eewily hot stretch - too shacked out to take pics.
Part 3 The actual review of the KSOs:
Running in the 5fingers is supposed to give ur feet more feedback than traditional shoes, considering the thin-ness of the soles.then again, i have done a bit of barefoot runs around my neighbourhood,so the feedback while running in VFFs din exactly rock my world.having said that,u will feel e small pebbles/rocky areas that u step on. Traction isn't very good on smooth,wet surfaces (e.g. toilet floor),but other than that shd b ok.the mesh upper layer oso meant cooler feet. I tried the VFF flow before i settled on the KSOs - wearing them in Sgp (with direct sunlight) would be too hot for the feet.
neway.my toes kinda point outwards a little, so it was a hassle putting the VFFs on. size-wise i tink i got the correct size,but only my big toe could fill the shoe's toe pocket. the other toes were a bit short.plus,even at the start of my run i could feel that the VFFs were abit too tight, length-wise - my big toes felt abit squeezed. halfway thru the ewwily hot part of LCK road i felt blisters developing at the sides of my feet, near the arch area.but maybe is cuz the VFFs haven't season yet.time will tell.
Post-Run thoughts:
I bloody respect the foreign (i tink) workers, whom I passed along the eewily hot part of LCK road.they were exiting their workplaces (din notice wat), and were walking northwards (no bus service, 975 goes into Old LCK road past the camps) in the heat. So i was like running along a bloody hot stretch of road just to c how its like. They had to walk along that road to get home/get anywhere.Sucks.
