Brown Nuggets

Praise God IT'S OVER!!

I am so glad the Standard Chartered Marathon is over!!

And I completed it in approximately 5 hours 20 minutes :o)

I'm quite proud of myself and I guess you could say it was a good attempt. I ran most of the way but had to stop to stretch and walk every once in awhile after about 20km.

The weather couldn't be better. Was worried that it would get quite hot from 9:30am onwards but it was rather cloudy and even drizzled a little towards the end of my run.

Have decided that this will be the last time I participate in a marathon coz satisfying as it was, it was more torturous.

Around the 30km mark I started questioning my own sanity and wondered why I was putting myself through this crap year after year...

1) Waking up at 4am is also not much fun :P

2) In the long run, running is also pretty bad for my hip, knee and ankle joints.

3) This year, training for the run has entirely screwed up my diet and strength training.

Now I can properly focus on getting my physique back. I just need a day or two to recover from my achy heels, joints and muscles...

Yes it is quite bad - so much so that I feel like an invalid. And I've been walking around like a penguin just so I won't have to move my joints and muscles too much :P

posted by Pocahontas @ 3:05 PM