on a happy day!

hello world.

yesterday was a happy day!

Firstly, army half marathon went well! woke up at 3.20am and left home at 4am. took cab down to esplandae there. there were many people there. guys especially. Waited for aileen and her friend, sheila, to arrive. deposited our bags at the counter and made our way to the starting point.

before we even reached the bridge, the race for competitive 21km had already started! ha. we were like, what the hell man... but since we were given a timing chip, it didnt matter that we started later.

so off we went! easy jog at first.. i felt good. the weather was nice, very cooling. i guess cos it's the sky's still dark. ha. so we ran past lau pa sat, maxwell food centre, marina south there..initially we were running together, then by the time we reached sheares bridge, i broke away from them. oops...

but it was fun, targetting every women i saw on the way and aimed to overtake them. ha. yes, evil me. then reached fort road and into east coast park.. cos the road was narrower there, so harder to overtake people. but the challenge was fun. ha. so squeezed in between people, ran out of the pavement to overtake people. ha. then u-turned near east coast macs there and ran back to fort road. from there, ran past kallang netball centre and then to nicoll highway, and back to esplanade. saw zhenyi at knc at. she was running 21km too.

stopped at 2 water points to take some sips of water. luckily didnt get stitch. yup, sipping's the way. i realised when i ran, i didnt feel that breathless. in fact, my breathing was pretty controlled. it was the lactic acid in the legs that quite jialat. ha, especially so when there was about 2km left. when i was running, i was thinking, wah, i did 21km and the lactic is already so much. i wonder how i was gna suffer the full marathon at the end of the year. ha. but nvm, still got time to train...

finally was a few hundred metres away from the finishing point. chionged and tadah! my timing was 2hr 5 mins! woohoo! i aimed for 2hr 30mins actually. so very happy that i was well within my aim. and i beat samuel! ha. his timing was between 2hr 5 mins to 2hr 10mins. muahaha. didnt see him running though. cos i was in the competitive category, his was non-competitive. their starting time was later than ours, yup.

the feeling was good! i felt at ease during the run. this whole thing makes me love running more. ha. the satisfaction and the runner's high after the run were something that money cant buy. lol. (sounds like the mastercard ad)

check out the reflections..

met fana and weel there too. fana was there to meet dex cos it was his bday ytd. weel was there to see her eye candy, who unfortunately, sprained his ankle and didnt run. then went to meet samuel and chatted with him for a while. saw brian mama too! he was the one who noticed me first. saw sockling, mathew kang, enguene also. wanted to meet mr tan, but he was already in his car, on his way home when i smsed him.

then me, fana and weel went to subway at marina square, then to donut factory outlet at suntec. my first time eating such donuts. ha. yes, the double chocolate is simply divine and sinful. while eating, he smsed me, asking me if i was going back hall today cos he wanna meet me back at the hall. he was booking in later at 11pm and meeting me there was more shun lu for him. initially i didnt wanna go back hall today cos i was very lazy. and i love my home. ha. but then, in the end, still went back. ha.

surprisingly, im not aching as much as i thought i would. woot.

i took mum's keys by mistake in the morning, and so she took mine to grandma's place at bishan. without my keys, i cant enter my room. so i cabbed down to bishan to pick up the keys. suay suay i got a taxi driver who didnt know his way around and so the usual cabfare of $8 plus became $10 plus. sigh. then from bishan, went to jurong point taxi stand to pick him up, then finally back to hall. total cabfare was ard $27.

so we talked and all. then ordered pizza. when i returned from refilling water, he surprised me by decorating the room with lightsticks! it was so beautiful, i tell ya. settled out some stuff. glad to hear that he felt better during the time-out. it was all worth it. sadly, he's leaving for taiwan on 29th night. might be meeting him one last time on tuesday before he flies off.

so yes, yesterday was a good good day. very very happy. partly cos of the run, and mostly due to him. yeah. :D

and oh ya, sadly, this 25 yr old captain collapsed after the run and passed away. and dex knew him. sad. he was so young...

lightstick!