Colin Tung represented Singapore at the Incheon Songdo Half Marathon recently and clocked a third personal best this year of 1 hour 14 minutes 52.72 seconds. He finished 11th of 12 invited international runners.
Some of Singapore's fastest runners and students were invited to run a 2.4km at the National Stadium last Sunday. How fast did they run? And do you think you have got what it takes to be the King and Queen of 2.4km?
Colin Tung, the fastest Singaporean at the Army Half Marathon, shares with us a first-hand account of his race.
On his eighth attempt at the AHM, Colin Tung, representing the 2nd People's Defence Force, clocked 1 hour 17 minutes 7 seconds (nett time) to emerge as the fastest Singaporean in the race for the first time.
Red Sports founder, Leslie Tan, and his son, Young, participated in the Families For Life 800m Father and Child Challenge during the 2014 SAFRA Singapore Bay Run & Army Half Marathon.
Running their fifth consecutive Army Half Marathon together, the event has brought father-and-son pair Ang Ah Kiang and Kwan Yang closer.
Not wanting to rely on life-long medication to regulate his high blood pressure, 49-year-old NSman Mark Chui turned to running. The exercise has not only helped him lower his blood pressure but also aiming to complete his first half marathon at this Sunday's SAFRA Singapore Bay Run and Army Half Marathon.
SAF officer Richard Toh will be running the 21km category and will join his sons for the Families for Life 800m Father and Child Challenge immediately after the half marathon.
