I shall blog about happy things, to keep my mind off the inevitable.
So this morn i had a 11k race at lake macquarie. it was raining plus a little cold. 13 degrees said my watch. so ran in my rain jacket. At the start line, i did not bother to do any pre-race warm up. not because that i felt really ready to go, but the opp. I did not want to be there, i felt shitty. I wanted to just jog slowly and saw myself breaking down in the middle, stopping to cry. Thanks so much to my friend Jan for being there. If not for her, I would not have even wanted to run.
So the gun went, I jogged slowly while everyone raced ahead of me. I then knew that dreams of getting top few was dashed, seeing how i was not in the mood, plus stoppped training a week ago due to exams and mood.......so i just settled for what i felt comfortable and kept going. At the halfway turnaround, i counted 10 ladies infront of me. that motivated me to keep accelerating to beat them. saw some that were alot non-athletic looking than me. I am already round enough....these girls looked undeserving to be infront of me. So i tried really hard to catch them. slowly i caught a few. passed the 10km mark at 46min. pretty happy with that, then started slowing down to the finish(900m more) i just gave up, seeing no one behind me, and the girl i was fighting was just too fast.
So results were: 2nd in my age group(20-24) and 14th overall woman. happy with that, given that in the first place i did not even want to try at all.
After that, gave out lots of rego forms for the wake up fun run. Then Jan and I went to charlestown to drink coffee. And in view of the upcoming wakeup red party, we went round the shops looking for a red dress. great to have her company. I am now so scared to be by myself cos I dont know what will happen. Praise God for a good church service and good church friends.
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