Last weekend was the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon. 7th year in its running. I had particiapated in it for 3 times. First time in 2005, ran the half marathon; 2nd time in 2006, ran the full marathon; and again this year (last sunday), ran the half marathon again.
It was quite siong, with absolutely no training at all. When i ran, i still have the mud that was left on my shoes since the Army Half Marathon in August earlier this year. I must be crazy.
As usual, some of us gathered to pray and start off (late) together. We ran, walk, jog, and joke along the way. There were ZZ, Jes, Carrie, Ven, Junyao, Jo, Yizhong, Minchen, weiling, Tingqiang, me (hope i din missed out anyone in the group. ) Our first stop wasnt the water point, it was the TOILET! less than a KM from our start point! hahaha.. going to toilet has never been so happening before!
Later we broke off in our run.
I broke off after the 8km mark. I tried to enjoy the jog together with God. Wanted to make the time more fruitful, i started to pray in the spirit to get my focus with God. I took the time to pray for a few pple in my CG. It was good. It takes my mind away from the lactic acid that is building up in my body and i felt refreshed in the spirit as well.
I finished the run in the end, with cramps and pain, but it was good. Tho i'm tired, and dead tired after that.
We went back to the gathering point and took several photos. Initially wanted to wait for the full marathon runners to be back and have lunch together. but the heat of the noon day sun is starting to get a little unbearable. Sorry guys, dun mean to pang sei you. But we tried our best to cheer u guys man.. hahah.. rem our dian hua nian xiang? haha
hmm... there are a few things i dun like about this year's run. It's too boring. There isnt much cheering along the way, road marshalls are sleeping!!! (YES ! I SAW THEM SITTING DOWN AND SLEEP WITH THEIR FLAGS! ) My goodness! Are you soooo tired?? why come and do road marshalling?? dun understand. Another thing is that, there is too many turnings in the run, the route is too boring. I tot we would run across the marina barrage! it'll be exciting to go on top of it and against the wide open sea, in the cool of the morning! but nope... we are on the boring nicoll highway, instead, turning and turning. I wonder is my $55 bucks worth it at all. The goodie bag is terrible. Only a few sheets of discount vouchers for places we dun normally go to, two running booklet for instructions, and our bid tag and champion chip. THAT IS ALL! *faint* Is economy that bad? yeah i agree it was and still is and will be BAD for at least the next 1 to 1.5 years if the market picks up. BUT we signed up and paid for the run way before the credit crunch set in! sigh... one word, disappointed.
okay enough of complaining. Thank God for this spiritual family that we can run and fellowship together. I have left the uni grp for some time, and it was a familiar feeling to be jogging with the bro and sis in uni. This is what i look forward for and i had gotten what i desire. Dear Father, thank you for this family.
=)
*i will look for photos and post them up*
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