My normal route design tries to include most of the best that areas offer. Obviously, that leaves out some of the possibilities. MacRitchie is ‘covered’ by the big green bob at the heart of the little red dot. This time round the objective was to figure out how much trail possibility the reservoir area actually offers. Continue reading
My pedestrianism page refers to the race walking hype called pedestrianism and links to an extensive wikipedia page on the phenomenon. So the info here is not so much new as that it gives you a a nice visual introduction to its American history by way of a short video in which Matthew Algeo, the author of the 2014 Pedestrianism. When Watching People Walk Was America’s Favorite Spectator Sport, introduces this largely forgotten mass sports craze. Continue reading
Jurong looms large in the Singapore story, and rightly so. In many ways this is where the from rags to riches turn around happened. Having said that, the industrial heartland also has an ulu image and although it figures prominently in URA’s new draft master plan for the future, in the here and now it is a bit off the radar of all who don’t live here. Continue reading
Pedestrian Singapore 