Monday, September 13, 2010

Last race as a 30-something...

A watershed moment for me as far as races goes - my last race as a 30-something.  Sigh..  I can still recall my first race, Sheares Bridge 10K run in 2003 and the starting point was the National Stadium.  Feels like a lifetime ago.

This year, they renamed it to the Safra Singapore Bay run/Army Half marathon, or whatever the real name is.  It's a nice new route through the new Singapore bay, through the Helix bridge, the F1 grand prix circuit by the grandstands, past the spanking new Marina Sands casino so new that I can smell the concrete still.  Nice route, very enjoyable.

Since I'm still a little sick since last week in HK when an inconsiderate man coughed square into my face, giving me a throat infection.  And I have not done a run longer than 5k since probably May's 17k trail run in Taipei.  My game plan was to go slow, keep running til at least the 15k and enjoy the run as far as I can.  So doing a time of 2.55 is good enough for now.

So I'm reaching for my little plastic bag of salonpas... my legs (every single part from the hip joint to the calf muscle), my shoulder blade area, my abdominals, all hurt.  Good news is my ITB held, not a twitch from either side, the left patella ached around the 18k mark & went away after I slowed the pace (cos I was too exhausted!).

You know how they often have uplifting messages along the run route?  I loved this one :
Sign 1 - Run run run!
Sign 2 - Walk if you can't...
Sign 3 - Crawl if  you must!

2 comments:

Zi said...

how is it dat ur route image crosses into ur archives text? like owner like blog - unsavvy.

Felicia said...

i tot that was so cool... overlay is the technical term.