it was 3am and the alarm on my hp went off. i remembered to gif wake up call to zhan. 3 calls then he answer. then i fell back to sleep again... woke up at 3.30, laze till 3.45. i haven pack my stuff the previous night. so spent some time packing in a dreamy mood. this is the most unprepared race i'm in lah. no training, nv sleep well, sat still go sentosa play ball, then toe nails oso nv cut. damn anyhow lah. eventually went down at 4.10 n took a cab to zhan's place to fetch him.


reach esplanade around 4.40. followed the crowd, placed our bags, warm up, find toilet. fullerton toilet 'under maintainance'. went over to one fulleton toilet. open but no toilet paper. pathetically used some serviettes that's being left ard by some 'kind souls'. hope there's no virus or wateva. met up with leslie, han song and chang xing back at esplanade, but we lose each other again after some confusion among the crowd.


race started, i set to finish the race with zhan, and not to let my ego overcome me. it went well. good pace. peed in the vegetation when it's still dark... buay tahan. then at ard 17km mark, zhan's legs started t say no to him. his thighs cramped. he asked me to go on myself instead of walking with him. i said we'll walk till 20km mark, if he still cant make it, i'll 'abandon him. but i abandoned him at 19km mark... muahahaha~ evil. no lah... he really cant make it liao... can onli walk vv slowly.


so my lonely journey begins. the only objective is not to walk. but again i didn't stick to tt as well. everytime there's powergel or banana, i'll grab one, then i'll start walking as i eat them. muz eat lah. i stopped at every water point too... end up drinking too much... and i went to the mobile toilets at least 2 times through the race. some participants have this 'reason tag' pinned on their back, quite interesting to read them as i overtake them. some examples i remember: "why run? juz run lor... lol" "for u to catch up!" "stop reading this and get moving." "so that i feel less guilty when eating junk food." these words really bring spice to the mundane 42.195km. then got some ang moh oso quite funny and lame... fun fun fun.


the defining moment is in the last 600m. some ladies said it's 600m to finishing line, and i dunno how true is tt... but tt is the hope u haf when u had covered more than 41km. so i dashed. stride. like a mad dog. my face oso like mad dog lah. so boh seh... aiyo~ juz when i thot it's finishing... i saw a bend. nnb... the only option is to run! coz i noe my legs will cramp if i stop there... coz they not happy mah. so to make my legs happy, i pushed on. finally along the stretch towards the finishing line. "2mins to 5hrs..." was wat i heard fr the mc. so the next only option is to run faster! i dun wanna see the number 5 in the start of my timing. 4 is always better mah. and........ yes! at last i crossed the finishing line. 1 x great sense of achievement and 1 x pain on whole body.


linked up with zhan at esplanade. washed up at the toilet there. lunch at han's. yummy! he lacked lotsa sleep, so went home. i met up with peh peh to get his levi's jeans. and i knocked out on the train back to yishun oso.


juz now went to get a hair cut. here...

-redfox & drunkard lived again-