Long straight stretch of road, some 8km long. Changi airport is on the right; it can't be seen in the photo because it was just taken on my bike ride but it (the road, not the airport) looks worse in the day.
I shouldn't be having a problem running it one way, and maybe in time to come and God willing, return. What is mentally very draining is the long straight stretch. No rest stops, no water points. At the end, its industrial buildings supporting the aerospace industry. Running down this road is like running on the track but worse. I can see where my run will end but it is in the horizon; when I start, the horizon is infinitely a long ways off. Every step gets me closer but optically, this does not seem true. Even the old adage of counting lamp-posts will probably not work because each one looks the same.
This is the famed Changi Coastal Rd. Back when I started cycling, myself and other small pockets of cyclists had already discovered this road and we would go up and down, building speed, training endurance. Cyclists continue to ply this road but I seldom see runners. The problem is that Changi Coastal Rd moats around the airport and I guess for security reasons, there are no parking spaces because you don't want to encourage people to be stopping and staring at planes taking off. There are 2 golf clubs at one end of the road and that is where the cyclists park their cars and mount their bikes. Runners do not do that because the road is probably too long to run, and mentally draining.
Just looking down this road makes me tired.
No comments:
Post a Comment