New Balance Real Run

Me, Darling, MX, Libing, Pei Ying, Marcus, Qi Yang, Jenq and Guo Yuan went for the NB Real Run together today. Darling came over the night before so that he could go to the race with me. Jenq came to fetch me, darling and MX from my house. As Evelyn’s father works in one of the sponsoring companies, we got to go for free! Hehe. We join the 10km category, we had to run 9km on road and 1km on sand. The president was the one who flagged off the race. Haha. I think it’s my first time seeing him so up close.

After we ran for 1km plus, darling went to the toilet and I continued running with the rest thinking that he would be able to catch up with me soon. Haha. But he wasn’t able to catch up until I reached the sand part as by then, I think we’ve already ran 7km and I was tired already. GY, Marcus and Qi Yang were running with me all the while before darling caught up and as I didn’t want them to deliberately slow down to wait for me, I pushed myself quite hard to run faster. The pace was not extremely tough for me but I did slow down sometimes when I was having stitch and I asked them to go ahead. But they kept saying that it’s alright and so I tried to jog faster with the pain. Luckily the pain did not last for a very long time.

It was very hard to run on sand as the sand was very soft and it was sloping slightly downwards to our left side so I had to walk. Luckily by this time, darling had already caught up and normally, I don’t feel that bad when it’s darling waiting for me. Haha. And since I was already very pissed with the sand, I started to walk, but I did jog at those parts where the sand is tougher and the ground is flatter. After exiting from the sand terrain, I started to jog again and all of a sudden, I felt that it was so easy to jog! (Due to the fact that the ground is solid and flat)

Towards the end, I was already very tired and there was a slight upwards slope. As I suck most at slopes, I practically jogged at a speed that any walkers could have overtaken me. Haha. Nonetheless, I wanted to finish the race by jogging so even though I was at that ridiculous speed, I jogged, and darling patiently waited for me. *sweet*

At the end of the race, I was so relaxed and happy that I didn’t feel tired at all! I even felt more energetic than when I was jogging. Haha. After collecting our goodie bags and having lunch at Pasir Ris, darling came back with me and took a shower. He accompanied me until 1.15pm before he left for his friend’s house warming. Hehe.

I’m really proud of us to be able to finish the race!