Celebrating Ryan's Birthday

So I received a message from Robson on Monday asking if a few of us could come on down to Serangoon Stadium on Tuesday to join for speed intervals followed by a birthday surprise to Ryan Goh of the New Balance and Newton running clubs.

I wouldn't usually find myself heading that far to go for a run, but I guess since it was a birthday surprise, I gave in and went ahead.

The interval session was conducted by Ryan himself, who got us to do intervals of 90, 100, or 120 seconds per 400m. I initially decided to go for 120 but found myself hitting the 90 second mark every time, I was pretty pleased with that honestly. =)

So after the run, the bunch of us gathered at NEX for dinner, where Li Jin had to leave and not join us "cause of other commitments"...she, of course, went ahead to get ready the cake for that evening.

I think it's safe to say we managed to pull it off, and caught Ryan off guard when Li Jin snuck up from behind and surprised him with a birthday cake...you can tell that he was genuinely surprised and really happy.

The guys started singing and soon the other tables joined in...and this was at the food court mind you, so the song was echoing through the place!

We later found out that he hasn't had a birthday cake or surprise in years...how about that? Robson totally pulled it off! =)

Here's to Mr Fast Runner, have a good one =)