I haven’t been able to update this blog as much as I wanted. This is probably due to the fact that I run a hectic schedule at work. Its usual for an engineer I guess. This time of the year is the peak of the bell curve of activity. Of course, working on a cursed project is another thing all together.
But anyway, last Saturday, I thought "enough was enough". Lets join a cross country run just to relax, loose some pounds and do some good for the environment. But boy, was I wrong about the relaxing part.
My cousin and I had to wake at 5.30 am to get ready and drive down to the northen end of our little island. The Keracut Conservation run official started at 9 am. Everyone was running, God knows why because 10 minutes later most was just fast walking, fun thing is… the author did that as well. Hey, I have not been exercing for like 2 or 3 months…
For the first leg, we had to run on flat roads then it was uphill from there. Going up hill was plain torture. You could feel you legs burning. Runs and marathons are all about mind over matter, body in this case. Professionals runners are able to ignore these feelings. This is called "To Strive", to strive to be better, to exceed….
Something about marathon. The first marathon started when the Greeks Athenians met an invading Persian forces around 490 BC. The Athenians outnumbered sent out a runner by the name of Phidippedes to Sparta to get help. Now take a look at your world map. Marathon is on the northen tip of the Greece. Sparta is on the sourthern end! 140 miles in two days.
But anyway, I was about 30 minutes from the half way mark when I saw my cousin running back, he had already crossed the half way mark. I was quite surpriced as I never knew he had such stamina. But anyway, I willed myself to the half way mark, and had to go back all the way…most exhausting, felt like wanting to puke. I was about 500 m from the finishing line when my right leg had a cramp and then the left. Most embrassing as this happened just infront of a group of girls I passed moments ago. But I had to force myself to move or else the cramp would have gotten worst. The risk paid off and the cramps went away slowly. I finished within qualifying time of 2 hrs. I did it in 1 hour 53 minutes.
Will I do it again next year? Maybe…
Sources:http://www.hickoksports.com/history/marathon.shtml
