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My Sundown 21Km experience~
Sunday, May 29, 2011 || 11:43 PM
I started off really strongly, completed my first 10 km in 55 mins, which I was very happy about it because it was under 1 hr! Continued running happily, looking at the planes, checking out the pretty girls, the handsome guys, the fat, the thin, the old, the young, the really young ones, the volunteers, the cars with the people in it cheering us, the moon..etc.. it was pretty fascinating with the types of people who joins marathon. But at the same time my stomach felt really weird because of the things I took before the run. I ate 2 bananas & noodle slightly before 2 hrs of the run, and power gel, 100 plus and water during the run. It was a weird mixture that made my stomach feel weird.
At the 16.5km mark, my left leg cramped up. At the 17.5 mark, my right leg almost cramped up. Couldn't really run after that. My knees and left ankle was hurting badly. So I was mainly walking and trying to jog for the last 3-4km. It was so bad that at 18km mark I asked myself 'why am I doing this?!', didn't really have an answer. I continued pushing on. I was really pissed off at that time because I was looking for SALONPAS spray from the volunteers, but none of them had it! Shouldn't that the organizers foresee that people's legs were gonna cramp up? I believe could have done it by 2hr15 if they had provided the spray.
At 19.5 km, I was limping, dragging my right leg along, was adamant to finish it within 2hr15 no matter what. I saw the 2:15 mins pacer guy run pass along side me, clapping his hand saying "2hr15 mins, follow me!!! Lets go!" I was damn pumped up but I only lasted for 100m before I started walking again. hahah. Quite a sad sight, watching your 'goal' run away.
Managed to finish it in 2hr32 I think? Unofficially. Totally forgot to stop my stopwatch. It was disappointing, but it was sure darn satisfying after completing my first 21 km marathon. I really need more training and clock more distance to prevent further cramp ups for my future marathons. Next up, AHM 21km, aiming for 2hrs10mins. Nextnext up, Standard Charted 42km! I will try for 4hrs 30mins.
