My body has been feeling so lethargic and sore after the marathon that I felt so lazy to do any other thing. Hence I didn’t bother to update my blog sooner.
Nothing special about this yet another marathon race. In fact, I’ve been running for the same marathon in Singapore for the third year straight. Something is telling me that I shouldn’t go for this marathon again next year.
Anyway, I arrived in Singapore on Friday afternoon. Went to pick up my rack pack from the Expo soon after. Since I didn’t want to spend to much being in Singapore (stronger currency compared to Ringgit), I went over to Johor Bahru to stay a night at my friend’s place. At least I get to carbo load at a cheaper price.
The next day, after having a good lunch in JB, I went over to Singapore again to prepare myself for the race. Didn’t do much for the rest of the day, just went for a quick dinner at night and it’s all back to resting again.
I got up as early as 3.30am the next day to get myself ready. Took a taxi to the starting point, deposited my bag, then met up with other friend before heading to the starting line.
Runners head towards the starting line
Since I decided to take this race real easy, as I don’t think I have fully recover from Bangkok Marathon 2 weeks back, I started heaps slower than any other race I’ve ran. The first 21km was quite easy, though the climate in Singapore is so much worse off than Bangkok. After the half way mark, everything just went downhill as I started develop muscle sore on both my legs.
The rest of the race was just hard pushing with run-walk-run strategy. Gotta thank God that the weather was overcast with clouds and with occasional cool breeze. Things could be worse.
Finished the race in 5:16, that’s about 36 minutes slower than my Bangkok Marathon’s result. Guess I shouldn’t feel so bad as doing 2 marathons within 2 weeks was no joke!
Met up with Isaac (on the left) who did half marathon, and with Alex (right)
Didn’t stay long after in Singapore, as I’ve pretty much seen enough of the lion city. Departed back to KL on that night itself.
Not sure when’s the next race for me, but I’m all up getting into competition mode for next year.
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