It's not every day that your morning run takes you passed lions, elephants and giraffes, and it's certainly not every day that you get a full on trumpet of encouragement in the first kilometer of your race. Fortunately for me, this morning was one of those days as I was running the Singapore Zoo 12km race to raise money for the orangutans.
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| My support crew |
I had to stop and snap a few quick pics from my iPhone (hence the quality), but I wasn't the only one. Hundreds of people were running with their DSLRs, seemingly content to run between enclosures, shooting all the while. I passed two gentlemen striving for a more authentic photo - one running on the spot in front of the rhino while the other took the picture, and then swapping. I can understand why though - at that early hour of the morning all the animals were out and active - lions, elephants, giraffes, rhinos, hyenas, pygmy hippos... it was so distracting that 12km was gone before I knew it... well, almost.
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| Breakfast on Pride Rock |
Well done you Becs! 12k is a fabulous achievement!! Our lovely Martine would have been very proud of you...as am I!! Oh and yes the elephants are cute!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Rach! Running wasn't at all painful because I was too busy gazing at the animals. Or maybe I'm just getting fitter... nope, I'm pretty sure it was the animals :-)
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