My first 21km!!! Really my first...never even trained for it!!...Furthest I have run before this is probably ard 12km...hehe...I'm a slacker...wat can I say?
Thinking of starting a group with Evan, Jayce and Elaine...haha...specially for slackers who participate in many races...but hardly train for them :P Anyone else wanna join us??
Anyway, today I woke up at 4am...slept at abt 9pm last night...had plenty of sleep finally...after a hectic week...
Had breakfast, packed up with all the stuff for work, then walked to CTE to wait for kops21 to pick me up :) Thanks, kops21 :D
Got to the padang at abt 5am...deposited my bag at the baggage deposit since I have to leave early...then kops21, his colleague, Francis, and I went to meet up with the other sgrunners...Carine wasn't ard....found out later in the forum that she was not well...so sad :(
hope u get well soon, Carine :)
At almost 5.30am, Brokenrunner and I decided to release some extra fluid in our body...no queue at the toilets for ladies...hehe...so cool!!! Guys queue was so so so long!!! After that, we started heading towards the starting line...somehow we lost TLR and the others pretty fast...it was left with Brokenrunner, Alvo, Alvo's fren? and I...we squeezed thru many ppl to get very near the starting line...it's always good to start in front...less road block...hehe...we got in front just in time for us to be flagged off...
For the first 4km or so...I was following Brokenrunner's pace...but after abt 4km, while we were on Benjamin Sheares' Bridge...I started to slow down...or maybe Brokenrunner sped up? Anyway, she started to get further and further from me...hehe...never mind...just run at watever pace I'm comfortable with :) Saw Brokenrunner again near the U-turn...think she was 3-400m ahead of me...not bad...I'm still not too slow...hehe...
I was actually very excited when I saw the "U-turn 300m ahead" sign...but it sure was a long 300m!!!...until I saw Brokenrunner...shall try to keep my distance behind her :)
Reached the 10km mark at abt 58 mins...still under 1 hour...yay...sure can finish race in 2 hr 30 mins liao lah!!!
After that it's just run run run, drink drink drink...along the way, quite a number of ppl overtook me, I also overtook quite a lot of ppl...
Met quite a number of frens who came from behind...hehe...Kok Seng (previously from SGH...my Buddy during my pre-reg training in SGH), Gabriel Tay (ex-Kentridgean), Evan (suddenly "jiayou" behind me...hehe), Commando (sgrunners)...and many more...can't rem at the moment...will add when I rem :D Kops21 din creep up on me this time...he must have been in front of me all the while? what happened to being last man??!!!
Anyway, I also met TLR's boss/swimmer for NB aquathlon at the goodie bag collection...hehe...
After the race, Fd appeared...oh ya...did I mentioned Meteor came at 5 plus when her 12km race was at 8am!!! She was our temp jaga cum photographer...hehe
Fd...long time no see...nvm...will see u again this sat rite? Desaru!!
I got my goodie bag, collected my bag from the baggage deposit...then went back to hang out with the sgrunners...until I have to leave for work :(
Paid for my t-shirt, collected the sgrunners' t-shirt!! Sold some turtle stickers...SAVE THE TURTLES!!! Took some photos...then I left with Evan to go find Jayce and Elaine...apparently they started late...that's why come back so late...
Walked with them to Raffles City...then took train to Toa Payoh liao...
Met Chang Chern at the MRT station...hehe..he's supposed to run with Kok Seng...but both of them late...somehow din managed to meet up...
Anyway, he's gg back home first...later will probably see him again when he comes to work...take over me...help drag me out of the chair if my leg has gone too stiff to move...hehe :)
Forgot to mention my timing...approx 2:06...way ahead of the 2:30 I targetted for myself...yay...so excited!! But will I do such long distance race again...hmm...I slack lah...maybe will do shorter distance next time :) Or just stick to aquathlon/triathlon...be swimmer for team Beyond Boundaries...alternatively form team with Jayce and Elaine for women's event if there is...hehe...good chance of winning something ;)
10 comments:
wah sei penguin,
at work still can blog har...
dont eat too much snake hor...
anyway good timing u hv for 21km run...
for me i think i will need 2hr 30mins to finish the distance...
:)
wah...dun announce to the world i eating snake lah...later my boss read my blog how?
anyway, took them long to write this post leh...customer keep coming ;P
Hey penguin btw alvo's friend is brokerunner's younger brother.
alvo: oh...haha...oops...too many ppl liao...lately never hang ard after race somemore...so can't rem a lot of ppl's name liao...
How can i overtake you? When u start off at 5:45am, when i start off at 6am. Plus, me old already...where have the strength to crept up on your shoulder? Next time remember to wait for me hor....
kops21: u last man mah...cannot let u creep up on me...later u put me in ur mouth like my giant baby tigger :P
Penguin scared :P
P: next time i will bounce on you and wrestle to the ground and stamped on top of you....of course, later have to bite you like your tigger avatar...haha....
Heh heh, I came in around the same time as you... :) Congrats on the successful finish of your 1st 21-km! :)
wah...when did tigger get so violent?!!!
Penguin very very scared now :S
eh sorry hor. take me so long to be reading this. had no time to read blogs lah lately! such a long entry. heehhee really nice to see you lor (as usual) and i kinda lost the turtle stickers liao. b4 i lost it, i was carrying that stickers ard (in my bag) for abt 1 wk or so! hahhaa..
too bad u had to leave early on that day lah. no wonder something seems to be amiss during our carbo-loading session!
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