Sunday, May 31, 2009

haven blogged in ages! fb is slowly replacing blogs its kinda sad. anyway just returned from adidas sundown! one crazy marathon ><

honestly 42km is just so totally different from a normal 5-10km run. in fact first 10km was pretty enjoyable since everyone was running on adrenaline and everything just seemed so easy :) 10-20 required a little bit extra will power. from 20km onwards thats when the cramps start and the body starts protesting, and it becomes a battle between your will and your body >< esp 30km onwards wah totally torturous. but we made it! :) think i took about 5 hours 15 minutes still waiting for the official time. now i just have to deal with abrasions and body fatigue for the next few days ><><><

nice medal and finisher's shirt! :) wah like type a few sentence marathon over already ya haha but i think besides the 28km route march in sispec this 5 hours plus were the most challenging in my life so far! >< but only difference is in sispec you have no choice so nvm just bo bian blindly follow wherever they were leading you keep walking and walking. but in a marathon you always had this very very tempting option to slow down and walk or stop and rest ><

so from 20km i was like keep trying to psycho myself "come on come on lets run abit more before i walk" and my body would be like "no no no we're too tired we need to rest now or the cramps will start blah blah". esp during after 30km all the overhead bridges like omg wo de tianz no idea how i got thru those. sheer willpower! ^^

hm oh yeah learnt something from this marathon. (AAR point! good soldier ^^) its actually ok to look back once in a while haha :) i know they always say dont look back just look at the present and focus on the all important future. but hey if looking forward you see 16km more, you could look back and say HA 26km done! not everyone can keep on going on and on de at some point in time you body will give in and your mental strength will wear out if you keep plodding on mindlessly. so looking back gives yourself quite abit of motivation to be honest. the whole marathon was just one long process or trying to motivate myself to carry on running :)

anyway after the marathon kian sin nicholas and i just sat down and STONED literally. like so damn too tired to do anything already haha. now i deserve a nice long recovery sleep :)

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