Saturday, August 3, 2013

will run 2013

today, 3rd august, was a such a memorable day.
today was the day that i took part in my first 10km marathon.
it was a personal challenge for me, considering that i am not a physically fit person.
to have only run a maximum distance of 5km at one go, to challenge 10km would be a difficult task...
but i did it, and i even ran 11km under the stipulated time of 1h 30min!
i'm sure i wouldn't have been able to complete this arduous journey if not for the help of my friends and my dad, who came down to run 10km too :-)
thank you for always being there every step of the way and for the times i actually wanted to give up.

well, the first 2 rounds weren't too bad...
i started walking after i finished my third, i just couldn't find the motivation to carry on running.
however i managed to regain my pace at the spectators' area because there was just simply too many boys watching.....
pressurizing eh.
and i made sure i ran the whole stretch from the fitness corner until the concourse..
ran with gina and yueenn for about the 4th or 5th round but lost them closely after T_T
so i was alone pretty much the whole time... until i saw maria and jennee like 200m ahead of me.
then i sprinted like crazy to catch up with them and i finally did hahahaha but then that drained me dry of my energy.
managed to keep up with them throughout till the end!
however at the 6th/7th round my ankles were really sore, like there was this sharp acute pain stinging both my ankles arghhhh.
it hurt real bad but what could i do? run. press on.
i stopped for water every round because it rly gave me that burst of energy i needed and boy it sure was good!
thanks to all the supporters of 1sr20 and other ppl who cheered for me hahahha.
when it came to the boys' race, jennee and i were roaming around and cheered for every boy/male teacher that we knew!
it was really fun giving out random high-fives to the male runners as a class!
there was this boy who was approaching us at a walking pace and after i high-fived him he picked up speed again and went on running!
this happened twice even hahah glad to have made you run faster woohoo!
i think those random people who high-fived us back are really cool!
though we didn't know them, but they spontaneously fived us back and that was awesome! :)
everytime a boy from sr20 ran past, all the girls were just like "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *name*!"
i swear we could win the most enthusiastic class award hahah :')
it's rly cool how we had so much energy to sustain cheering and high-fiving for 1hr+ even after we ran our 10km.
and yay 3 is the magic number!!!! :)
so happy aww hahah.

yup so here are today's photos!!


srjc will run 2013 xoxo