Sunday, July 3, 2011

Great Eastern Run


Great Eastern Run
35 and a half minutes - that is the official time clocked by Kenyan Eunice Nyawira to win the 10-kilometre Great Eastern Women's run on Sunday morning.

The event is Asia's biggest women-only run and is into its sixth edition.

The 19-year-old champion from Kenya won S$5,000 for topping the Open category. In second place was 30-year-old Anne Date, who set a national record as the fastest Singaporean in the race with a time of 38 minutes and nine seconds.

No mean feat considering she was up against 12,000 or so other women.

She said: "In the past six days, I've just been sitting down and sleeping you know, did quite little running. I tried to recover as much as I can so (as to) get ready for this race. So my preparation was just to stay still."

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