DBS Heritage Run

woke up at 530, was abt to leave e house at 555am and noticed it was raining kinda heavily outside. yirang boarded a taxi which wld come by my house[at e traffic light junction] and i was slightly caught in the rain. Damn cold lah, its in e morning, i'm wearing trg tee, and e air con in e taxi made it even colder.

called boon chin to check out if its raining over at bukit timah, she said 'No'. 5min ltr she sms-ed saying 'it started raining, so how?'

decided to call the weather station to get forecast of the weather. Showers in e western part of Singapore including Clementi and Bukit Timah, rain likely to continue for next 3 hrs. Next moment i was msg-ing the snrs, and yirang msg-ed e juniors to tell them tt we arent gg for the 10km run. cant have pple falling sick now, n besides, the rain was persisting for next 3 hrs.

She had breakfast at clementi mac while i nua-ed and watched her eat. It felt like i juz came back from nite cycling,was equally shagged, only diff. was tt there's not 'Reach out for the skys..' blasting at the background.

Went home and had a 3hr nap. den packed my stuff and was intending to head for sch to study, but jul called and ask me to come down for ultramarathon, so i thought ok since i'm gg down, y not?

My gosh, this was really so meaningful. I dun regret running tt 27 rounds ard e track. it was torturous, i split it out to 10-15-2. e last 2 was relay style to accompany dr william tan for his last 10 rounds, while the 10 and 15 rds were juz continuous, mostly alone, and den some rounds with wenya.

I encouraged dr tan as he passed me by. would say, 'dr tan jiayou!' or 'dr tan, endure!' and he'd reply occasionally with a hearty 'thank you!'

truly, wad's 10.8km when he finished 10 times of wad i accomplished? His is for such a noble cause, mine's ntg compared to him. I perspired like mad coz the weather was kinda humid aft the morning rain. My legs were a lil wobbly [kah1 neng4!] by the last 2 rounds, but juz pushed on. Yea i initially pledged 24 rounds, but the 25th rd was coz wenya said make it 10km, while e 26th n 27th rd was to finish it with dr tan.

Seriously, we cheered louder than the cheerleading team lor. ah well, nv recognised. Yah and we were known as the female runners, not dragonboat ladies. TP-ed with jul and wenya. i kinda regretted doing my 'special no. 1' pose coz the next day, ie monday, i kena tt thing! yea, the traumatising '1'. karma