We’d say it’s a perfect warm-up for next week’s Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore, of which a vast majority of those who participated in the Montrail – Mountain Hardwear Tiong Bahru Challenge would have to agree.

The Osu NM is an update of the original Osu with modern materials and colours, a new vamp mesh, and new bootie mesh for easy on and off access.

We mentioned it in the Race Prelude and we reiterate it again. 73 stories. 226 metres. 1,336 steps. The fastest time clocked? 7min 16sec by Matthias Jahn, a German firefighter, who’s also the reigning 2010 Stair Run Champion at the World Firefighters games and winner of the recent MesseTurm Vertical Race in Frankfurt, Germany.

After a year’s absence, the Salomon X-Trail Run graced the grounds of the Tampines Mountain Bike Park & Trail once again in its fourth showing.

Who would have guessed the Swissôtel Vertical Marathon made its debut in 1987? What started out as a modest race with 180 participants is today 2,100 (official number of registrants) strong, and that’s not it.

This season, PUMA Running celebrates all things Jamaican with the Faas product range. ‘Faas‘ – Jamaican for fast – is part of PUMA‘s Faas Lab, a campaign that celebrates all the elements that go into making Jamaicans so fast, particularly the fastest man in the world, Usain “Lightning” Bolt.