Sense of Accomplishment

This year TJ and I made a pact to live healthier, and we signed up for gym, and I'm proud to say we've been pretty disciplined with regards to exercise.

So when yun asked if we wanted to join in the Standard Chartered Marathon (10km lah) of couse we gave it a shot.

I have bad knees which are aggravated by running, and TJ claims that he "runs very slow one", but we went ahead.

It was interesting and exciting at the same time, to be on the MRT at 6am and seeing a whole train full of people dressed in the same blue running tee all psyched up to run later. And it was more madness at the start point! Note to self: to stand out from the crowd, do not wear blue next year.

Before this, the longest I ran was about 1hr in East Coast Park (I didn't really know how far I ran) and it made my knees pretty painful, so I was worried. To avoid killing my knees, I set myself a target: to run as far as my knees will take me, then walk the rest of the way...

It was a good run, pretty good weather, and my knee didn't start to hurt until maybe 1km from the finish line. And I came in at a pretty respectable time of 1hr 19min. For the first time in a long while, I set myself a target, and managed to achieve it... And I totally enjoyed the process, and the sense of accomplishment I felt after the whole race...

It was such fun that I jokingly told TJ that I want to complete a marathon in my lifetime, hopefully before I turn 30! So we'll see how it goes, maybe next year I'll sign up for the half marathon...