The Place Ill Return....

Sunday, December 06, 2009
|12:57 AM|

Ok, considering thousands took part in the 42.195km run, i may not be that unique, but its definitely something i've been wanting to do for some time, but i dont think ill ever do it again lol.

Alright, before i forget the details.. i think it might be interesting to go through certain crucial points of the run.

== Woke up at 3, took shuttle from hougang stadium and reached at 4.10am.. couldnt find anyone but spotted my BMT friend. Followed him and his bro.
==And so i passed the start point at 5.45am, ok i was late cause my friend's brother was waiting for toilet and i was with them.. Nevertheless, run started.
-- Everything was fine for first 15km. Only started drinking water after 10km.
-- I only trained till about 16km, so started to feel the tension on my legs after 16km, but i made it fairly well to 21km which was the U-turn point at East coast ( I swear the East coast stretch is a killer as u're about to hear)
-- Timing was 2hours 10mins at 21km.. quite ok la.. And continued running. 21km -30km (end of east coast stretch) was damn terrible la. HAD to drink at every drinks station, eat powergel bar and my current strategy was just to walk a few hundred meters before jogging very slowly till i hit the next water point. This carried on for a very long time, actually till the end of the race.
-- And so there went strategy walk a bit then force yourself to jog till next 1km. A painful journey,especially when aunties n uncles run faster than u and 34 to 35km seemed ever so endless.
-- Saw a friend at 38++ km, was damn painful by then, so i walked with him.. hoping to end the last km with a jog to the end. but 41km never came. So as i saw the ending point.. I just ran to the end and posed for the camera with my tongue out. An Okay timing 5Hours 45mins with lots of walking and slow jog..

My aim was below 6 hours and so i was satisfied, but i personally felt i could have done better when i was running together. I never want to go through such long pain again .. or maybe ill change my mind. But 21km and 10 km runs are fine with me :)..

And so marks the day, where Shane becomes yet another out of thousands of singaporeans to be come a finisher of 42.195km.

Remembering what life is.....
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