Sunday, February 19, 2006
shoes + more
ahh yes I did finally buy those shoes :) sorry nam and whoever may be interested, don't have a digi so will have to take a pic some other time... well if my time was under 2hours then yes I would have a digi now hah... although I ended up doing a little more shopping than expected, i.e. i came home with a few new purchases including two jackets, a top and a pair of jeans... oh well!
not sure whether the chinese ointment did better, I couldn't really tell, as my right leg was more sore in the first place! aiya...
the good thing is that I back to having coffee again... hmm coffee, although I think I've been so deprived over the past few weeks that I'm trying to make up for it and have been having at least 2 a day (espressos as well!) ahhh and yes there were a few empty bottles of wine at the Au's the other night too... hmmm
anyways just going through my photos from the crazy kiwi trip here and have posted a few for yas :) enjoy
not sure whether the chinese ointment did better, I couldn't really tell, as my right leg was more sore in the first place! aiya...
the good thing is that I back to having coffee again... hmm coffee, although I think I've been so deprived over the past few weeks that I'm trying to make up for it and have been having at least 2 a day (espressos as well!) ahhh and yes there were a few empty bottles of wine at the Au's the other night too... hmmm
anyways just going through my photos from the crazy kiwi trip here and have posted a few for yas :) enjoy
Monday, February 13, 2006
2:12:53
hmm just numbers but they meant a lot on sunday morning after waking up at at 5:30am to get ready to join 40,000 people in tst for the HK standard chartered race - full, half-marathon and the 10km...
sigh... i'm somewhat disappointed with that time, but i guess i can't complain as i really didn't train for this one and i did beat my previous time by a few minutes... a few minutes, what a difference that makes.
pre-race - i was so consumed with the time factor and setting high expectations for myself that when we started i actually forgot to start my timer, and then at the first water station i noticed my stop watch had stopped! argh so I reset it to find out it stopped again later... so crazy! i guess it was God's way of telling me, don't worry about the time or anything, just enjoy it... so i ran and kept running. i had several goals for this run, 1. to finish, 2. to run the whole way, 3. to beat my time, 4. not to get on the loser bus ha i guess i can tick them all off and another incentive was that if i beat my previous time, i get to go buy these shoes i like! can't wait :)
race - the best was targeting people on the race and matching their pace. for the first 5ks there was a guy wearing s tshirt that said "head of the pack" so i imagined myself as the "pack" and followed him... that was kinda fun. i lost him after the first water station but just kept running. the funniest thing was when i finished, this random guy comes up, says hi and mentioned that he followed MY pace for 15kms! how crazy...
post-race - i'm sore as... why do we do this to ourselves? good thing i took the day off work today, as i've been hobbling around the place and man, steps are real killers! especially going down them!! ahh will try avoid them for a while
and i'm doing a little experiment... i've massaged some menthol cream stuff on my right leg and some chinese ointment on my left hah let's see which one feels better in the morning! any bets?
it's back to some form of normality this week as we have on the menu: work, masterlife, lunch dates, a swim sometime, dinner dates, a movie perhaps... and so i continue to run that race called life :)
sigh... i'm somewhat disappointed with that time, but i guess i can't complain as i really didn't train for this one and i did beat my previous time by a few minutes... a few minutes, what a difference that makes.
pre-race - i was so consumed with the time factor and setting high expectations for myself that when we started i actually forgot to start my timer, and then at the first water station i noticed my stop watch had stopped! argh so I reset it to find out it stopped again later... so crazy! i guess it was God's way of telling me, don't worry about the time or anything, just enjoy it... so i ran and kept running. i had several goals for this run, 1. to finish, 2. to run the whole way, 3. to beat my time, 4. not to get on the loser bus ha i guess i can tick them all off and another incentive was that if i beat my previous time, i get to go buy these shoes i like! can't wait :)
race - the best was targeting people on the race and matching their pace. for the first 5ks there was a guy wearing s tshirt that said "head of the pack" so i imagined myself as the "pack" and followed him... that was kinda fun. i lost him after the first water station but just kept running. the funniest thing was when i finished, this random guy comes up, says hi and mentioned that he followed MY pace for 15kms! how crazy...
post-race - i'm sore as... why do we do this to ourselves? good thing i took the day off work today, as i've been hobbling around the place and man, steps are real killers! especially going down them!! ahh will try avoid them for a while
and i'm doing a little experiment... i've massaged some menthol cream stuff on my right leg and some chinese ointment on my left hah let's see which one feels better in the morning! any bets?
it's back to some form of normality this week as we have on the menu: work, masterlife, lunch dates, a swim sometime, dinner dates, a movie perhaps... and so i continue to run that race called life :)
