Adidas Sundown Marathon 2009.

my first marathon. didn't do it so well. But i completed it..!!

Met up with BK and Sam and sam's friend before going over to the start point. Lots of people man. Many many. I was nervous. My first marathon, of course i'm nervous.

At gun time. So it started. took some walk-time before i even reached the starting line. LOL. there were that many people. Passed the start line, jogged at my own pace. Eventually lost BK and Sam. lol. too many people and too many overtaking.

Didn't go to the 1st aid station as it was jam-packed. Saw sam there though. that means he's on my pace. Met him at the second aid station too, when i was going out and he was just arriving. Aid stations are every 2km.

So from changi it was, all the way down to east coast park. And after a few aid stations and past 16km. I had the urge to shit. Like OMG..!! i needed to shit in the middle of a marathon..!!! think it was the 100plus, my body can't take the normal 100plus drink. It will irritate my bowels. and that's where i found myself.. irritated bowel with the urge to shit.. i thought i could hold i back.. but by the turn of that cablewakeboarding pool i couldn't hold it back anymore.. it had to go.. LOL.. so i increased my pace and widened my stride as i searched for a toilet. LOL. The worst thing is.. everytime i see a toilet up front.. the route deviates from it..!! Eventualy i found one.. think past the 18km mark.. LOL.. ran 2km in search of a toilet.. lucky not full.. wah.. spent like 30minutes in there.. think sam and BK should have passed me by now..

Got out. got ready to run. was starting off until i felt a sudden sharp familiar pain in my right knee.. slowed down my pace.. but by the turn at the 22km mark.. i couldn't run anymore.. it was torturing.. the pain in my knee. i duno how to describe the pain.. it's like everytime u lift ur leg up to that bent angle to propel forward there will be a sharp pain at my knee joint.. feels like someone is ripping my leg of by my knee.. really hurts like mad.. So i walked the rest of the way.. that's like 20km of walking..

by then i already resigned myself to the fate that i cannot continue to run. it really hurts like mad.. and i have to go shopping with kai the next morning.. lol.. i walked with a limp as i tried NOT to bend my right knee.. so i was kind of like a jerry fox but with no prosthetic leg.. ahaha. so i walked the rest of the way.. the bridges were no help.. the long winding roads seemed like forever.. the boardmarkers indicating the distance seemed further and further each time i passed one. it was horrendous.. i saw a guy pull out to the ambulance.. think thats it for him, and i wondered if i should do the same. but i didn't.. i want that finisher's tshirt..!! in order to do that.. i have to FINISH this.. some idiotic resolve in me asked me to continue even if i have to drag my body to the finish line. And so i did.. NOT drag my body to the finish line lar.. but finish the race in no matter wat condition i was in..

*SIgh*.. watching the morning sun come up was like a bane for me.. i knew i had passed 6hours into the run.. by then BK and Sam should have finished it..

Eventually through pain.. i completed the damn thing with a time of 8hours and 8minutes.. lol.. 22km of running, 20km of walking.. more like sundown walk-a-thon for me.. lol..

oh well it was a great experience.. with a bad timing, it would be easier to break my PB..

till the next sundown..