Let's see. Where do I begin? This is the year of several firsts, and many ambitious back-to-backs on red-eye flights and long distance buses, maximising all hours. Could not have experienced all these without the generosity and support of so many of you (spot yourselves in one or more adventures
😉). Grateful for the opportunities.• January kicked off with my favourite HK100 race, and three days later I was in Argentina. Glad the Aconcagua summit did not evade me this third time.
🙏 • February saw me attempting the TransGrancanaria 125km in the Spanish Canary island, and my first DNF of the year. 
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• March offered a hiking through the Big Bend national park in Texas,
soaking in the vastness of the land and being so so close to the Mexican
border. Plus a weekender to Quebec and Montreal to catch the Hotel de
Glacé (ice hotel). Discovering my name on #27 of the new Ultra-Trail
World Ranking was a surprise bonus perk-me-up! • April was a crazy
month, presenting my second 100-miler at Zion100 - a breathtaking scenic
meandering through the canyons just outside the Zion national park. A
week later, it was The Boston Marathon, my very first! Followed by
bucket-list Peru to gasp in wonder at the Machu Picchu ruins and
trekking up the amazing Rainbow mountain. • Then Melvin came over to NYC
in May where we went snow-shoeing in Colorado, and ran the TNF NY Bear
Mountains - got my second DNF of the year. 
😂 Graduated from my Masters programme with my family in attendance, and finally home-sweet-home to SGP. 
😍• June was the Muar Camel Run 22km, finished 9th place with loads of otah. Then a Krabi chill rock-climbing weekend. • July had the MSIG SG 50km, which was cut short by a thunderstorm, followed by a Malacca weekend drive. • August's poison was my first Craze Ultra 100km, where longans and coconut juice got me to 2nd place. Two weeks later was my first ever win at any event - the GreenRace 60km. • September squeezed in a recee training at Mt Kinabalu, a feeble attempt to "dash" up the mountain. A week later, it was off to Sapa for the Vietnam Mountain Marathon 100km. • Early October was my third Chicago marathon, good to be back in the Windy City. Followed by my first Mt Kinabalu Climbathon - glad I survived it. Loving the high altitude events. • November was relatively low-key, with only the Swissotel Vertical Climbathon, over in like 11min and finished 4th. So I basically chilled for almost two months, which felt like an eternity. • Glad to end December with a local favourite MR Ultra. Soaked up the camaraderie in my favouritest playground, had loads of fun, ran my eight loops with the support of several people, and closed 2017 with a 3rd placing.
Amidst all of this, read a tonne of books and journals and articles, juiced a couple of brain cells, wrote a stack of papers and assignments, organised a conference, completed my studies, re-adapted to work and picked up new skills, and connected with many new faces in our running community.
May 2018 be another year of exciting opportunities and adventures. Looking forward!
