Today was a rather diffrent day.

Woke up at about 5am to know that afternoon study session is canceled due to some stupid reason. ZZzz. Anyway, I washed up and walked to the bus stop to take a bus to TP. It was raining and it was quite cold. oh well. Took bus 23 to TP and it took about 30mins. Quite a fast trip I must say, but then again, it's in the wee hours of a Sunday morning. After I alight, spotted that there are alot of cars queueing up at the TP entrance to enter. Well, after crossing the road, saw a large number of US Navy personnel taking part in the run too.

I followed them over to the stadium and from there, registered using my lucky draw coupon.
Met up with Cheong and his army friend. They are running the 10km while I was only running the 5km "fun" run. Well, we deposited our bag in a chaotic environment. Atlas, we put our bag in the VGO truck. I sat on the bench at the side and waited for the 10km competition.

I was flagged off at about 0745. We ran and it started to bottle neck till a walking speed at the cross over from the TP side to the Bedok Reservoir side. After that, we ran on gravel which has alot of pot holes in it. Due to the rain earlier on, the condition was made worst. Everyone was like trying to avoid the paddles of water and running continuously was quite difficult. In the end, I ran along the side of the gravel road where it's most of the time dryer then the main gravel road. I continued to run and there were quite alot of people along the way who started to walk, causing a blockage at certain parts of the gravel road. After awhile of running, I catched up with the 10km runners! YEA! MAybe my stamina has increased? hha!

Anyway, as I was approaching the end point, I can see alot of people started to sprint. After I crossed the big arch Mizuno ballon, my timing was 27mins35sec. Well, this is the best part, the marshals there keep shouting wrong way and directed some people to run the other way. And I stupidly followed their instruction!

This is going to be interesting, I continued my timing and ran, thinking that it was about to end for the 5km. I ran, and ran, and ran and the end doesn't seem to get into my sight! As I looked around as I ran, I reliase that there aren't many blue tag people left! Only at this moment that I reliase that I was running the 10km route! hah! No wonder it seem so long, my timing was about 45mins when I reliase that I ran the 10km route! haha! HEck it, I continued to run, too lazy to walk back to the ending point at the back. Want to challenge myself. As I ran, I spotted Ruth, my PF sub-theme friend. WE ran pace each other all the way to the end, and chatted awhile too. As we got close to the finishing line, AGAIN, I reliased that she was runing faster. And so I followed suit! haha! Finally compeleted the freaking "fun" run!

hah! MY timing for 10km is 1hr and 3mins! YEA! Not bad considering that I've never trained for a 10km run before and it was my first time. Well, it was a damn tiring race I must say. I could feel my legs weaking at the end of the run. I met up with Cheong and his friend and took our bags from the collection point. I must say, that there was no order at all at the bag collection point and anyone could just take the bag they want to take! THERE WAS NO SECURITY OF THE POSSESSION! Luckily I found my bag. I didn't look expensive and guess no one took mine by mistake! hah!

We then proceded to queue for the "goodie bag"! haha. IT was a freaking long queue! All the way to the Canal. And we queued for like 1hr just to get the goodie bag. When it was my turn, the lady told me that they ran out of M and L size for the singlet and gave me a size S. HAHA! They think I look nice in it? haha! At least I can fit in it though. haha. Went home on the BUs and slept all the way home.

Bottom line, don't join any Mizuno run the next time cause it is really badly organised.

After I bathed, tried to comtact my studying friends and reliase that she has just woke up! Where got someone sleep till noon one? haha!

Anyway, end up studying at home.

Went Billy bombers with my family to eat later that evening.


Hope tomorrow I can wake up in time for my check up.


God Speed.
spoke at : 10:13 PM