Monday, December 08, 2008
Blog time!
The Singapore Marathon was a blast! First time I did a half marathon and boy was it good. The target time was 2 and a half hours but i allowed myself up to 2hours and 45 mins. I've trained for this, but I admit that I wasn't training too hard. And it was almost impossible to train during shift days, but hey! I tried. I ran at 10am in the morning before evening shifts and I ran at 11.30 at night after evening shifts. I tried running at 5pm before night shift too, but that left me feeling super tired for the night shift.
Anyway... Back to Wednesday, it was one of those rare chances to watch a UDS happen without Toh KL. And Peiting was there so boss asked me to go watch and learn how to do it. And then, god damn it... Peiting sneezed into my chest (yes, she can't sneeze into my face due to Y-axis limitations), but that was good enough to seed me with her bug. Then, I knew it was doomed. I went home that day and started popping Vit C like mad. Little symptoms showed but I guess the Vit C was keeping the full blown effect away... So I continued with my Vit C regime and trained.
Day before Race day: I was feeling quite ok. I carbo loaded like mad and Vit C loaded like mad. I rested really early and drank loads of water.
Race Day! Feeling good, squeezed my way to near the front to start the run nearer to the front pack so that it wouldn't be too squeezy. I didn't make it to the toilet cos it was too crowded, but that issue was settled in an unofficial male peeing point later. Run was really good, but my dumbass Crossroads headphones broke down at the 7km mark. There was only sound coming through the right channel. Dang... So I took off my headphones and ran without music. At the 10 km mark, I was out of strength, I was running too fast for my body to release my stored energy (yes, from all the fats all over me). And damn I should've gotten energy gels. I had no choice but to slow down to a walk. At the drinks station at 11km, there were bananas!!! Omg!! God sent! I hoot the banana and drank loads of water and ppoooFFF!! Strength to run again... I'm so going to train harder for my body to learn to release energy faster and I'm so going to get energy gels for my next run. So run run run... walk a little and then, the Adidas Official Pacers for 2hr and 30 mins went pass. I was like, if I had trained harder and wasn't a little sick and had some form of energy replenishment earlier, I would've been way ahead of 2hr and 30 mins. At the 17 km mark, I started feeling unwell, I felt like puking but kept holding back.
Then I ran all the way back to the finishing line, didn't stop... So many people were watching and I couldn't malu myself. Finally got back in 2hr and 47mins, need to wait for the official results, cos I didn't pass the start line at 0mins so need to wait for official results. I'm kinda happy with my result. It's a race against my own limits and yeah...
I puked 6 times after the race and it was until 6 hours later that I could finally drink or eat something without puking...
LAtest Update: My official nett timing was 2h:46m:28s (Fuck..................)
Posted by NuhC at 1:29 PM
