YAY! I have completed my first 21km marathon!! :D
Had my first half marathon this morning! Hee hee..how do I feel? Hmm..right now my legs are actually aching..hee hee..especially my calf and thigh areas and also a certain part of my butt! :P
Hm, dinch ran 42km this year coz dinch have enuff time to train so ran 21km instead. Started my training somewhere in Oct but had never ran more than like 10km. I dinch even ran like last week coz was so busy with the revision lessons for my driving test.
Thought that I couldn’t make it for 21km but hey I did and I actually did much better than I expected! Hee hee..: ) As I was running with some of my colleagues, we actually targetted to reach before 11am and all the guys who took part with us were like laughing at us lor. So evils eh? But hey I managed to reached before 10am and the other ladies reached 10 minutes before me. Gosh. YAY! So all of us actually did much better than we expected and all of us felt so accomplished and proud of ourselves! 
It is indeed a personal achivement lor! I completed in about 3 hours and it was totally amazing running thru the finishing line.
Seriously it was really a mind over body thing! No denial that I spent a few km walking coz really wanted to give up. So told myself that I should walk in between and when I was like reaching the last few km, then I should run all the way. Hee hee..well that dinch quite happened as well since I was like running and walking and running and walking again. Somehow my legs wouldn’t listen to me and almost gave way! @_@ So decided not to take the risk and decided to rest and walk instead.
But hey there were like so many photographers at the end lor. All like taking pics of those who were running so I was being one of those being taken as well! Haha..wonder where all those pics gonna turn up and also how do I look! Haha..:P It was definitely a motivation to run when you know that there are photographers in front taking pics of you! Lolx. Think I heard a few clicks here and there from a few photographers! Haha..:P
AT the end, it was really a killa lor. So it was really really mind over body! Haha..:P
The most grueing part was when you are like left a few km and running along the F1 paddock area where the sun is like up in the sky already! It was around 9 plus and there wasn’t like any shelter or stuff! So it was so very HOT! The kind of feeling u get was like totally killing! Gosh! I wanted to just run through that area quickly and get out of the sun ASAP! It was totally HOT HOT HOT! And I was like imagining to myself how it would be like if I do not run and walked to the finishing line. It would even be worse when it is like 11am lor! That part was the KILLER man!
And running with a partner is indeed helpful as both of you would motivate each other to run and not give up. This is what happened to me at the beginning. Was running for almost like 4km with one of my colleagues and we just gave each other strength. But we kinda lost each other later on and when I was running later part, it was a bit demoralizing as I stopped and walked quite a bit since there wasn’t any partner to run with and no motivation there. So it helps to have a partner to run with.
But there is one thing which all of us including my colleagues couldn’t stand! There are like couples who took part the marathon and can you imagine them holding hands and strolling as if it is the New Paper Big Walk?! You can really die walking behind them lor. Moreover they take up like the middle lane and you cant really overtake them! And there are couples who hold hands while they ran? Goodness lor. If you want to run, just run lah. Being a couple doesn’t mean that you must hold hands and run mah. I had seen many couples who are like running w/o holding hands? Haha..:P CAN DIE! * faints * The worst are those who walk hand in hand as if they are at the Big Walk!
And even worse was that they ran out of water at the finishing point! Everyone was so pissed when told that they ran out of water! I was pissed man! You are like so dehydrated and they told you “Sorry but no more water.” What the crap! Seriously they should have gotten ready LOTS more water than expected. Heh.
But hey I really admired those who ran 42km lor! A female colleague of mine ran and she came back like in 5 hours’ time! GOSH! MY hero lor! Hee hee..:P Shes realy very zai leh. She completed in less timing that she has expected so she was so thrilled! And those guys who ran 42km all had a certain look to them. All are like skinny and quite alright looking and all are tanned! Haha..:P All looks so good. Haha..:P Those are like the profile to the 42km runners. Even the ladies are also quite athetletica looking! :D
How do I feel after running the marathon? A sense of accomplishment! And I am so glad to have taken part in it. Even though the legs kinda suck after running but hey it was definitely an experience and accomplishment! And everyone who ran all had the same look and feel. Haha..we went to Suntec for lunch thereafter and everyone who ran was like holding onto the railing and limping when they were like going up and down the stairs! Hee hee ;P
It was definitely worth it lor! And next year I am targetting to run 42km! And this would mean that I would have to train like at the beginning of the year so that I have the stamina to run 42km! Have already jioed one of my male colleagues and the 42km hero to run! And we all said OKAY! Hee hee..:P well you get a medal for completing the 21km but a really nice black addidas shirt that says that you have completed 42km at the back.
Gonna be another goal for myself to achieve for next year! So happy that I have accomplished 2 of my greatest goals in this same week that I have set for myself this year! : ) Felt so good man! :D
Standard Chartered Marathon 2009 – 42km here I come!!!
Number 40860!
