说来也是奇怪，西安的植物园二十多年我一直没去过，遗憾。。
新加坡植物园第一次去是参加一个朋友婚礼，那天下雨也就没怎么转。
只到上周末，两天活动都恰巧在植物园。。
周六留新中国研究生聚会，因为第二天还要到植物园，本来没打算去，后来还是去了。和老朋友们聚聚，争取再结交些新朋友，不过活动的时间仓促，我晚去早闪的，也就完成了第一部分。。不过还是感谢汪以及其他留学生会的同学组织活动，当然还有各位新老朋友。
植物园还是很赞的，面积不小，各个区也是经过了精心的设计，而且绝大部分免费开放。 周日去是参加SGRunners.com的主题跑步活动，Botanic Garden Run，每个月的第二个周日早，见前帖。
I woke up around 4:50am, brushed my tooth washed my face and took a light breakfast. I ran from my home to Boonlay intercharge and boarded the bus 174. Alighted 1km to the starting point in the garden, I had a second warm up run there.
I realized I’m the first to come when reaching the basketball court and what worse it started drizzling. However soon the rain stop ped and the run leader this week, new friend Renohtaram arrived a few minutes later other new runner friends came including Tiwazz, Astrogirl, Petia, Asturias, Eugene_Ng8, Dasher, Run3,Charlotte.
Renohtaram lead us the "Frodo Loop, essentially an approximately 15.5-km route from old SMU – Bukit Timah Road – Ngee Ann Poly – Clementi Road – Ulu Pandan Canal – Buona Vista MRT Station – Holland Village – Holland Road – Botanic Gardens Minden Gate – Cluny Road – old SMU". The weather was perfect, cool. We finished the run with a very comfortable pace in 1hr44mins including a big stop for drink. On the right is the speed graph captured on my NOKIA5500 sport’s pedometer.
After the run, Ripley, Alec_chua and Roonz joined us for breakfast at Mr. Prata. First time I saw so many varieties of prata. And I ordered the French prata with banana inside and chocolate topping(Is it a bit "sinful"?).
Quite an enjoyable running experience besides the long travel time from my home. Looking forward to the next run.
易·雅馨居 Dr. Vincent's ArTeCafe 