Maddy: Life of a Beach Bum & Bikini Babe Wannabe!

 

 

 

I can still remember how I used to tease one of my ex-colleagues when he told me and my other colleagues that he is taking part in the Standard Chartered marathon 2 years back. How I was like “aiyoh why so stupid to go find yourself such trouble?” But hey guess what? I am now taking part in the upcoming marathon! Hee hee..:P Well, just to calm you guys outta there. No I am not taking part in the full 42km but rather 21km.

So why did I make this “silly” mistake since I commented that once to peeps who took part in it? Well, I just it had always been like a wish of mine to actually run in a marathon and when I found out my colleagues were like taking part in the AHM few months back, I was like “Why didn’t you guys jio me?” Hence I missed out that chance totally and when I was informed by them that they were taking part in the Stan Chart one, I have decided to join as well. Well, sorta like an ownself achievement I guess. : ) 

Just something that I really want to push myself to do it. Kinda find that my life is getting a bit boring since most of my frens are like getting married and attached and I am also beginning to give my party life a miss as I am growing old! Can’t really keep up to that momentum anymores…hee hee..:P So decided to really do something healthy. Hee hee ;P 

Have been like training for it since Oct. Have especially went to buy a pair of running shoes and the running attires to make myself geared up for the run! Training had been difficult since I am trying to juggle between driving lessons and training after work during weekdays. And weekends, well I tend to only run on Sunday since I will be going out on Saturday with frens etc. And only I can only run like longer distance on weekends since I can start the run early. It would be like late after I get home from work on weekdays. 

Training had been pretty good so far. And occasionally I would even go for runs with my colleagues who are taking part in the marathon. : ) Kinda like training together lor. Mainly went to NTU for runs since it is nearer to my company and also the place to run there aint too bad. Saw some really athletic guys running at the sports complex when I was there two weeks back! Hee hee…and my guy colleague was like asking me to look at the amazingly cute ones and told me that he felt so pai s e h when he saw those fit physiques of them! Ahaha..:P I myself felt like I was a student there in my running attire and even worse, thereafter when I wore my Havianas..haha…felt like I was staying at the hall there..:P 

And my colleague can even suggest that I can run home after my driving lesson since I do not have much time left to train! Gosh. I was like “Okay, I can run home. But what about my things leh? Ask my instructor to drive my things home meh?” haha..that is totally hilarious lor. Well, it might be a good thing for me to run home since I will be able to cover a longer distance for my marathon but seriously how about my stuff? And also I cant imagine myself in running gear running home after lesson lor. That would be so weird! I can imagine the kind of stares that I would get at the centre not only from the instructors but from the rest of the peeps there! Haha..:P I would say it is a good suggestion but hey I aint gonna do it lor..ahaha..:P 

Have to really run more now since the marathon is drawing near. It is on 7^th dec and I have like only one month to train. Moreover, my driving test is like in early Dec and all my weekdays for 2 weeks before the test are like fully booked with my driving practicals. So I can’t really go for training like then and might really have to work hard now. 

Well it is really tough running. Coz I ran like a long distance yday, from my place to Jurong East. Almost wanted to give up. But running is actually a mind-over-body kind of issue. You have to really persevere and tell your body not to give up. And setting targets are really important since it really gives you the motivation to carry on. 

Hmm…wish me luck for the upcoming marathon! Am training very hard to avoid appearing on the headlines of the papers the next day after the marathon…hee hee..:P But hey if I really did manage to complete the marathon, which I am praying very hard to, I will feel so satisifed and accomplished! : ) And probably I would even sign up for next year’s! Just something that I wanna push myself to accomplish. : )

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