100 Plus Passion Run 2010
this run was held at ECP and as it was near my place, i arrived there on my own as scheduled, at 5pm for the flag off at 520 pm. just as i reached ECP, i received a call and genehow and eljx were still at stadium mrt station waiting for the shuttle bus!! argh. total zz there was a long queue the bus only comes every 10 min, so they were really gonna be really late.
so i went to sit at a bench by the beach near the flag off pt and witnessed the other runners going for the run. and later on even the SENIOR MINISTER has arrived but the two late ppl have not reached. lol. total SDP. finally they arrived at abt 620 pm and i would have approximately finished the race by then if i started on time. lollll.
And so we started with our run and after a while we ran at our own paces. i was quite determined to get a timing under an hour for this run (as i ended up walking in the last 10km run i participated in so i was eager to do much better) and pushed myself forward, reaching the mid pt at abt 26 minutes, which is a good timing. haha then as i was starting to feel tired, while continuing to push myself forward, i started taking deeper breathes and felt a little less comfortable.
there was a girl at the side of the path with a grp of frens, think for a bbq or something. then she took a snapshot of me and lol, guess wad she said. she said to her frens (i could hear her even though i was past her alr) that i had a guai lan face!!! omggg. haha sad la. but too bad i think i dun look too happy or handsome when i run LOL. bobian. i think i look like im in pain sometimes even. hahaha.
as the run went on i couldnt give up as i kept thinking abt the one hr that i want to meet. and there were more and more ppl walking/cycling on the footpath that i was running on! it became a natural obstacle for me as i had to siam here and there left and right. at abt 1km away from the finish, i was attempting to cut a person walking and out of a sudden i was confronted by this boy, prob pri sch kid, on a bicycle and he ran over my shoes/toes and "crashed". omg. luckily i looked at him and realised that he wasnt in a bad situation nor in great deal of pain. i stopped and asked him, after him having a blank staring moment at me, if he was all right.
rather bravely, he started to pick himself up. He reassured me that he was fine and urged me to carry on to complete my race. (Y) i felt rather motivated by his words and i decided to go on and this provided an extra push for me for the remaining distance that i covered. but on hindsight, i wish i had stayed and made sure he was really uninjured and made sure he could continue on his bike w/o problem.
in the end i took a self-timed duration of 58+ mins, w/in my aim! (: and by the time we collected our bags it was 8pm. i decided to bring genehow and eljx to bedok first b4 heading off for dinner at home (since it wasnt spelt out that we were having dinner tgt, they assumed so and altho i thought abt it somehow i didnt clarify) haha it was a terrible mistake to walk to bedok as it took abt ONE HOUR to do so, after a tiring run. sorry! :S
overall, it was qt a good run as the breeze and ppl ard helped matters. i see that there are many many ladies that took part in this run, probably the most i've encountered for all the runs i've been to so far. i guess it might also be due to the time that i ran and the categories' flag off timings (:
this is a bag that looked qt nice but in fact, its a little small and i think it will be collecting dust as well haha. 
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