Race the Night 2010.
Adidas Sundown Marathon.It's the annual event again.
But this year, we had signed up for the Half (21Km) Marathon!
As usual, we did our weekly/monthly training. However, I think we weren't very active in our training as compared to last year. Is it just me? Or probably because of the raining season that disrupted our running plans. HA!
Anyway, this year's event was held at Changi Exhisbition Centre (CEC) whereas last year was at Changi Village. I guess they had a change of venue was due to the opening of 21KM Marathon this year. You know, additional event = more people = larger space needed.
We were lucky cause Lance drove us down. Otherwise we would be like those thousands of people who were complaining of the lousy (logistic) shuttle bus provided by the event. Many waited for hours and were even late for their race event. Tsk tsk.
We reached early like 7.30pm and proceed to walk the carnival, got our light sticks, rest & stretched. Soon, it was time for our race which shot off at 9pm. I remembered feeling really nervous before the race.
There were so many people, I ended losing the sight of my friends even before I reach the 2km mark. So throughout the run, I was alone. I didn't have a good start which I guess was because of my late dinner. I only ate at 6pm. I felt heated as if I'm gonna burst anytime. Luckily the hydration station saved me. I also thought the sign board indicating the kilometres mark were kind of misleading, for some.
I've concluded that I've performed better at later part of the run. However, there was a point that I suffered from muscle cramps on my right thigh and I had to slow things down so as not to escalate the pain. I had to ask another runner for the timing in order to pace my run.
Towards the last few kilometres of the run, 有心无力 best described how I felt. I was at my most energetic moment but my legs were aching so badly that it refused to lift up for the run. I had to keep convincing myself that I could do it. As the saying goes, mind over body.
Upon reaching 100m to the finishing line, where there were people cheering and photographing, I tried my best to run as fast as I could. But I suffered another cramp on my right 5 toes. It got cramped so badly I had difficulty running. I continued to grip my teeth and run because I don't wanna finish my run by walking or rather being photographed walking. Wahaha.
I had to limp back to the resting area after the run and immediately applied the counterpain to relief my strained muscles.
And so, I am Ranked 1005 and Chip Time was 03:09:03.
It was a really satisfying run and I'm glad we did it. :)
