YAh... I'm a S.C Marathon Finisher!! All 42.195km of it!!
haaahaa... feel so good! never felt this good for a long time! Not since i got into the army. hmmm... looks like many of our nation's males might have lead weak & boring lives if they were to proclaim NS was their defining moments! muahaha... Well maybe that's true since the most physically exhuasting activity they ever did was chasing after gals! muahaha... If not getting into a staring match since moving 5 steps towards each other is just too physically & mentally challenging. Sitting down & staring is much easier!
haha... i would say 70% of guys falls in this catogory! This figure is in accorance with the number of guys taking sports! ha ha... golf doesn't count! haha... (read: sports means taking your own equipment from start to end, not the caddie.) & chess doesn't count! (can't believe it's classified under sports! SEA Games somemore!) how often u seen a fat athelete? haha... at least i need not worry about heart attacks! haha...
I define sports as a dangerous but exciting activites, that places lives & limbs at risk! has the occassional blood sheds. haahaa... But at the end of it u feel satisfied & feel like u've achieve something.
Well so much for side tracking, now back to the marathon story! 1st of all i would like to congratulate all those who have finished the 42km marathon! Job well done no matter what timing! still a challenge anyway! Not many people could have done it. What the heck, not many people could have started it! Hell, the rest of singapore was still in bed when it started & guess they are still in bed when it ended! haha... Sleep & laze! haha... So "singaporean" haha... Well... who's to blame, over here u're either working or sleeping anything other than that u're not human! haha... that makes us sportsman supreme being! haha... "Bow before us lazy pigs!" haha...
Anyway the night before (sat night), Foo Ji Kun, Ah Neo & Man-flirt (Manfred, TJW haha...) came over my place to stay overnight since my place was the nearest to the venue. Pick them up from Novena MRT station at 6:30pm. Went for some "famous" sliced fish soup at novena (but it sucks lah actually! Thanks TJW for the suggestion! ha ha...), then went to rent some DVDs which in the end no one watch & i end up watching it by myself today. Came over arould 8:30pm & pester me to reveal some secrets! Damn... that's what u get when a bunch of guys get together alone at home!- they become picky, nosy little gals! ha ha... thank goodness i manage to endure thru all those pestering the whole entire night. Finally went for supper around 9pm. We must be crazy!
Supposingly we were to sleep by 10pm, ended up we only got to bed at 12mn. Well... not too bad if we had 4 hrs of uninterrupted sleep except that that didn't quite happen.
couldn't sleep till 1plus... after which TJW phone rang, some gal he met at Tm ask if we would like to go out with her, *siao*, Then 2plus Ah neo finally felt cold & had to find him a blanket. finally managed to get some sleep!
woke up at 4:30am... Dead beat & almost going to be late!! Our team meeting at 5:30am & we left the house at 5:15! haha... but luckily we made it in the end!
And so at 6 the run starts, i ran with damien, while foo, TJW & Ah Neo ran together. Me & Damien did pretty well for the 1st 10km, 1:05 hr actually. next 10km 1:08, starting to slow down. But after that, it was a crawl, damien developed cramps, think we did 1:45 for the 3rd 10km, i also start to have strain on my knees, but damien's cramps were really bad, on both legs! Think it really took him alot of mental strength to get it thru! Remaining distance we took nearly 2 hrs to run! ha ha... well... so the final timing... something like 5:59:59... haha... our projected time of under 6 hrs. haha... but what the heck... our timing should have been 4hrs plus. We're not really 6hrs finishers u know! ha ha... well, no luck this year try better the next! anyway must thank damien too, from training, clocking milage to the actual event dun think i'll be running without him! & magnum force too near the 37km point! haha... what a sight for sore eyes! Inspiration for sore legs too! haha...
Now my legs hurt like hell, but it feels good deep down inside! ha ha... what the hell... let do it next year all over again! Anyway i went to watch Aeon Flux during the evening. I couldn't get up when the show ended, my joints felt like they rusted! haha... then i look over on my right, 4 sits away a gal was having the same problem! haha... she was wearing the S.C Marathon addidas singlet. ha ha... looks like i'm not the only one having problems! haha...
Well... got to book in to camp now! yes today is monday night, i'm on leave today! for sacrificing my legs for the S.C Marathon! Hope the photos of the marathon will be ready on Marathon-Photos.com by the time i book out!
haaahaa... feel so good! never felt this good for a long time! Not since i got into the army. hmmm... looks like many of our nation's males might have lead weak & boring lives if they were to proclaim NS was their defining moments! muahaha... Well maybe that's true since the most physically exhuasting activity they ever did was chasing after gals! muahaha... If not getting into a staring match since moving 5 steps towards each other is just too physically & mentally challenging. Sitting down & staring is much easier! haha... i would say 70% of guys falls in this catogory! This figure is in accorance with the number of guys taking sports! ha ha... golf doesn't count! haha... (read: sports means taking your own equipment from start to end, not the caddie.) & chess doesn't count! (can't believe it's classified under sports! SEA Games somemore!) how often u seen a fat athelete? haha... at least i need not worry about heart attacks! haha...
I define sports as a dangerous but exciting activites, that places lives & limbs at risk! has the occassional blood sheds. haahaa... But at the end of it u feel satisfied & feel like u've achieve something.
Well so much for side tracking, now back to the marathon story! 1st of all i would like to congratulate all those who have finished the 42km marathon! Job well done no matter what timing! still a challenge anyway! Not many people could have done it. What the heck, not many people could have started it! Hell, the rest of singapore was still in bed when it started & guess they are still in bed when it ended! haha... Sleep & laze! haha... So "singaporean" haha... Well... who's to blame, over here u're either working or sleeping anything other than that u're not human! haha... that makes us sportsman supreme being! haha... "Bow before us lazy pigs!" haha...
Anyway the night before (sat night), Foo Ji Kun, Ah Neo & Man-flirt (Manfred, TJW haha...) came over my place to stay overnight since my place was the nearest to the venue. Pick them up from Novena MRT station at 6:30pm. Went for some "famous" sliced fish soup at novena (but it sucks lah actually! Thanks TJW for the suggestion! ha ha...), then went to rent some DVDs which in the end no one watch & i end up watching it by myself today. Came over arould 8:30pm & pester me to reveal some secrets! Damn... that's what u get when a bunch of guys get together alone at home!- they become picky, nosy little gals! ha ha... thank goodness i manage to endure thru all those pestering the whole entire night. Finally went for supper around 9pm. We must be crazy!Supposingly we were to sleep by 10pm, ended up we only got to bed at 12mn. Well... not too bad if we had 4 hrs of uninterrupted sleep except that that didn't quite happen.
couldn't sleep till 1plus... after which TJW phone rang, some gal he met at Tm ask if we would like to go out with her, *siao*, Then 2plus Ah neo finally felt cold & had to find him a blanket. finally managed to get some sleep!
woke up at 4:30am... Dead beat & almost going to be late!! Our team meeting at 5:30am & we left the house at 5:15! haha... but luckily we made it in the end!
And so at 6 the run starts, i ran with damien, while foo, TJW & Ah Neo ran together. Me & Damien did pretty well for the 1st 10km, 1:05 hr actually. next 10km 1:08, starting to slow down. But after that, it was a crawl, damien developed cramps, think we did 1:45 for the 3rd 10km, i also start to have strain on my knees, but damien's cramps were really bad, on both legs! Think it really took him alot of mental strength to get it thru! Remaining distance we took nearly 2 hrs to run! ha ha... well... so the final timing... something like 5:59:59... haha... our projected time of under 6 hrs. haha... but what the heck... our timing should have been 4hrs plus. We're not really 6hrs finishers u know! ha ha... well, no luck this year try better the next! anyway must thank damien too, from training, clocking milage to the actual event dun think i'll be running without him! & magnum force too near the 37km point! haha... what a sight for sore eyes! Inspiration for sore legs too! haha...
Now my legs hurt like hell, but it feels good deep down inside! ha ha... what the hell... let do it next year all over again! Anyway i went to watch Aeon Flux during the evening. I couldn't get up when the show ended, my joints felt like they rusted! haha... then i look over on my right, 4 sits away a gal was having the same problem! haha... she was wearing the S.C Marathon addidas singlet. ha ha... looks like i'm not the only one having problems! haha...
Well... got to book in to camp now! yes today is monday night, i'm on leave today! for sacrificing my legs for the S.C Marathon! Hope the photos of the marathon will be ready on Marathon-Photos.com by the time i book out!
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