Sunday morning, I wake up at 2am preparing for the Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2009 which will be held in Dataran Merdeka. This is a very big marathon event. There are 12,500 participants in total.
2 days before the race day, I went to collect race pack during a weekday lunch hour.
It was a nightmare, as you can see, the queue is damn long. I end up have to go again on the next morning. This time, I only used 5 minutes to collect 7 race packs for myself & my friends, very big improvement.
Here is the running vest:
Compare to New Balance Run 2009 running vest, the quality is slightly lower.
My race starts at 5am, full marathon (42.195km) with a time limit of 6 hours. There is some small rain between 4:30am - 5am, but overall, it didn′t affect the race.
After 5 minutes the race start, my left stomach begin to feel pain, oh crap, not again during this important race. I try to adjust my body by running extra slow so that my pain will be gone after some distance. It works well, my stomach pain gone after I cross 8km.
From 10km on wards, my body feel fit & I think is time for some catch up with my extra slow start up. I start to cross a lot of runners one by one between 10km - 20km. And that is the biggest mistake I had ever made.
After 24km, I suddenly feel that my left leg having some muscle twitch, oh crap, my legs are not fit enough or maybe I am running too fast. I start to look for 100 plus, hope that water restoration can reduce my muscle twitch. But it didn′t work very well, I finally end up my first stop at 27km, begin to walk.
As my previous running experience tell me, when I start to walk, I might not able to run back so easily. Yeah, the theory work very well, I walk until the end for the remaining 15km.
I feel so disappointed during this 15km walk, although I feel like I am able to run for the last 5km after 10km of walking, but I didn′t feel like want to do so, cause 10km of walking is a shame for a runner. There is no different for 10km or 15km walk, I feel shame for both ways.
Well, I still pretend running for the last 0.195km, I cross the finish line at 11:15pm, which mean I took 6 hours 15 minutes to complete my 27km run, 15km walk full marathon.
A finisher t-shirt & medal still be rewarded.
Experience gained, mistake learned, I will do better for the next full marathon.
