Sundown Marathon
I finally conquered the SUNDOWN MARATHON!!
it has been a torturous night for me and also torturous for the days to come...
the pain has already come...and im paralysed on the bed for the whole day already...it is really bad...the consequence of pounding ur feet on pavement for a night with several up and down...best estimates that i could recover is a week...things that i can't do now includes, lifting my leg without the feeling of a real knife plunging ur leg (realli its that bad), bending my knees, run?, walk normal?...it feels like i have something up my ass..had to go mc for my workdays already...sorry guys if i let you down...especially daddy =(
right...lets get on down to the main event...
dad fetched me down to changi village (starting point) @ 11 and we walked over to the starting point to have a look...it realli does look like a low budget one that is worst than Standard Chartered...small area, low population, small carparks, wierd route, low budget...the area is like everything cramping together and the people joined this time round is around 6k only...idle around and wait for Wen An to reach...collected nightsticks as well (woo i love nightsticks..kinda remind u of thunderbeads)..Carpark location was so limited...the 2 carparks at changi village doesn't accomodate all the cars and if u illegal, you get a summon which Wen An did...The route is so wierd becoz they didn't seal up all the roads and instead, put u on park connectors, leaving u fight for oxygen with the plants...wth...
Start-off was smooth but very stuffy coz 6k people had to squeeze 1 side of the road up all the way to east coast park...me and wen an rushed ahead and ran for 12km and thats when my legs felt like they are cramping up...the feeling is so horrible...u wish to run but if u do, you will cramp....and that feeling sticks for another 15kms..we reached east coast park at around 1 hr 10 minutes, 10km...and proceed to run all the way to Big Splash which is the 21km mark and we reached there at 3...all the while we are walking becoz both Wen An and me had that cramping feeling...We waited for Miss Goh at the Big Splash there and we finally meet up after crossing an overhead bridge at Siglap Road....yes...ITS AN OVERHEAD BRIDGE!! (WIERD ROUTES!)..but this bridge is ok...theres worst ahead...
the next part of the run was from EAST COAST up to BEDOK RESIRVOIR via the park connectors...its a long long long stretch of road that goes all the way past kembangan MRT (24km, 4am) up to Bedok Resirvoir....we are all getting very hungry and wondering where the food point they said there was was at...Finally we reached one after crossing another overhead bridge over PIE...The bananas never look so good and taste so great before...the power gel taste power too...den come the ultimate...all the overhead bridges that we passed are ramp access...but this is a STEP ONLY! OMG! everybody who saw the bridge immediately felt demoralized...but somehow the energy already came to me and for a moment my leg doesn't feel anything...was still able to climb 2 steps at a time =D
Halfway thru Bedok Resirvoir, i felt like a can of Coke that has been shaken and awaiting somebody to release my cap...keep asking Wen An and Miss Goh whether they wan to start running and they claim im crazy and called me to do so if i wan to...and so i zoom all the way up front...walking fast all the way and overtaking many people...enters into Tampines (28km, 5am), entering Pasir Ris and thats when the sky starts to rain...and due to their poor planning, when it starts to pour, the road marshals just call us to head inside shelter...many including me ignores it and just continue running...ran all the way till loyang (32km, 6am) where the rains start to get lesser and its more demoralizing...my shoes are wet...and its a running shoe...running shoe + rain = soggy leg with heavy shoes...the last 10km is pretty demoralizing coz you have just ran 30 km, feeling dead tired, yet you are so close...you would be draggin yourself along with a blank mind...the progress made was quite slow becoz of the up and downs and also the tireness....when i reached OCH (38km, 7am), im practically spent up and even though they say just 4 more clicks, you have no strength to move on...4, 2, 1 and im still no strength...i didn't run until im 200 metres from the ending point and the crowds was so small becoz everybody run finish and left...
took the medal and the finisher T-Shirt and sat at the pavement self-enjoying the rest...waited for around 45 minutes and Miss Goh came in...den another 30 before Wen An came in...the walk to the car was #!@$&#! all the way...and the step into the car was !)@(#$&&#$&@*(!$*$*@!...we went to pick XL and head to east coast eat breakfast...once again with the !)@(#$&&#$&@*(! and the 4 white legs race each other to KFC...the whole thing was very funny coz we are all @$#&@ all the way up the stairs...
it has been a torturous night for me and also torturous for the days to come...
the pain has already come...and im paralysed on the bed for the whole day already...it is really bad...the consequence of pounding ur feet on pavement for a night with several up and down...best estimates that i could recover is a week...things that i can't do now includes, lifting my leg without the feeling of a real knife plunging ur leg (realli its that bad), bending my knees, run?, walk normal?...it feels like i have something up my ass..had to go mc for my workdays already...sorry guys if i let you down...especially daddy =(
right...lets get on down to the main event...
dad fetched me down to changi village (starting point) @ 11 and we walked over to the starting point to have a look...it realli does look like a low budget one that is worst than Standard Chartered...small area, low population, small carparks, wierd route, low budget...the area is like everything cramping together and the people joined this time round is around 6k only...idle around and wait for Wen An to reach...collected nightsticks as well (woo i love nightsticks..kinda remind u of thunderbeads)..Carpark location was so limited...the 2 carparks at changi village doesn't accomodate all the cars and if u illegal, you get a summon which Wen An did...The route is so wierd becoz they didn't seal up all the roads and instead, put u on park connectors, leaving u fight for oxygen with the plants...wth...
Start-off was smooth but very stuffy coz 6k people had to squeeze 1 side of the road up all the way to east coast park...me and wen an rushed ahead and ran for 12km and thats when my legs felt like they are cramping up...the feeling is so horrible...u wish to run but if u do, you will cramp....and that feeling sticks for another 15kms..we reached east coast park at around 1 hr 10 minutes, 10km...and proceed to run all the way to Big Splash which is the 21km mark and we reached there at 3...all the while we are walking becoz both Wen An and me had that cramping feeling...We waited for Miss Goh at the Big Splash there and we finally meet up after crossing an overhead bridge at Siglap Road....yes...ITS AN OVERHEAD BRIDGE!! (WIERD ROUTES!)..but this bridge is ok...theres worst ahead...
the next part of the run was from EAST COAST up to BEDOK RESIRVOIR via the park connectors...its a long long long stretch of road that goes all the way past kembangan MRT (24km, 4am) up to Bedok Resirvoir....we are all getting very hungry and wondering where the food point they said there was was at...Finally we reached one after crossing another overhead bridge over PIE...The bananas never look so good and taste so great before...the power gel taste power too...den come the ultimate...all the overhead bridges that we passed are ramp access...but this is a STEP ONLY! OMG! everybody who saw the bridge immediately felt demoralized...but somehow the energy already came to me and for a moment my leg doesn't feel anything...was still able to climb 2 steps at a time =D
Halfway thru Bedok Resirvoir, i felt like a can of Coke that has been shaken and awaiting somebody to release my cap...keep asking Wen An and Miss Goh whether they wan to start running and they claim im crazy and called me to do so if i wan to...and so i zoom all the way up front...walking fast all the way and overtaking many people...enters into Tampines (28km, 5am), entering Pasir Ris and thats when the sky starts to rain...and due to their poor planning, when it starts to pour, the road marshals just call us to head inside shelter...many including me ignores it and just continue running...ran all the way till loyang (32km, 6am) where the rains start to get lesser and its more demoralizing...my shoes are wet...and its a running shoe...running shoe + rain = soggy leg with heavy shoes...the last 10km is pretty demoralizing coz you have just ran 30 km, feeling dead tired, yet you are so close...you would be draggin yourself along with a blank mind...the progress made was quite slow becoz of the up and downs and also the tireness....when i reached OCH (38km, 7am), im practically spent up and even though they say just 4 more clicks, you have no strength to move on...4, 2, 1 and im still no strength...i didn't run until im 200 metres from the ending point and the crowds was so small becoz everybody run finish and left...
took the medal and the finisher T-Shirt and sat at the pavement self-enjoying the rest...waited for around 45 minutes and Miss Goh came in...den another 30 before Wen An came in...the walk to the car was #!@$&#! all the way...and the step into the car was !)@(#$&&#$&@*(!$*$*@!...we went to pick XL and head to east coast eat breakfast...once again with the !)@(#$&&#$&@*(! and the 4 white legs race each other to KFC...the whole thing was very funny coz we are all @$#&@ all the way up the stairs...
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