It's October! Running October
I don’t know if I am ready for this run, despite having been
training vigorously, but not specifically in running.
Maybe I feel like chickening out as the date draws near, but
since I haven’t been running as much as I should, I don’t know if I am fit
enough to be running continuously for an hour or so. I have been doing heaps of
cardio but then it does not involve just ‘running’.
But this year, I will still have to fulfill my wish to run
this run. So no matter what it is, I will have to get ahead and do it.
Unfortunately it costs a lot to do this run. I wanted to
do the half marathon (21km) initially, I had to settle for a 10km run instead.
To do a half marathon, it costs $110, way beyond my budget. The 10km run costs
$80, still costly, but at least not crossing the $100 mark. As we need a team
of minimum five people to qualify to run as a team, I tried to get peeps from
my company to join so that our company can sponsor half the cost, but unfortunately
there were not many takers. Only another colleague and myself expressed
interest for the run, hence we can’t form a team to get that sponsor. SAD! There
are some sporty people in my company, but many of them do not ace running. What
a pity.
21km will be a big challenge, but I want to run that. It has
been years since I did this kind of marathon. My last challenge was probably
way back during my poly days. It has been like 13 years now. Kind of miss that
kind of running. 10km sounds short, but long at the same time too if my fitness
level is not up to standard.
Anyway, the run will happen on Sunday, October 12th.
Let’s see how I fare then. Hope it goes well!!!
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