Marathon:The Aftermath

Woke up @ 4am, e earliest ever in life. Usually if i had 2 wake up tis early, i will 4go sleep. But for 2dae, sleep is very important. So Changz dad picked mi up @ Anchorpt & we set off 4 Esplanade.

Though we were early, we had 2 find e gathering area & deposit our bags, so when we settled down 2 do warm ups, it waz close to 6am. We did 'some' stretchings & went 2 e starting line.Flagged off @ 6.30am & we aimed 2 complete e race in 1hr 45mins. Frankly speaking, 21km waz really a challenge for mi coz i had only trained for 11km & 15km.As for Chang, he looked more prepared than i waz.

Initially, our pace waz still ok until Chang realised tat we were behind time @ we e 5km mark, we started picking up a little speed.I think i realie not as fit as Chang liao lah, i couldnt keep up wif him & started having stitches. For his & my benefits, i asked him to run his own pace w/o mi.

I struggled till e 12km mark then did e stitches left mi, but i was quite shagged liao. @ e 17km, i got cramps.I regretted not stretching enough & not training sufficient b4 2dae. I waz so frustrated @ not being able to run constantly thru out e run, & 1st time in my life i felt tat im a lousy runner.Everything simply juz didnt work out well for mi.

So tere waz Chang @ e finish line, completed e race much faster than i did, so his prophecy did came true. I haf to beat him in next yrz marathon liao.

Aches haf set in, now i fear e sight of stairs. No running for 1 mth for now.