Mizuno Wave Run 2007 22 Jul (Sun)

I woke up at 5am on a Sunday Morning.. I sacrifice my sleep beacause of my first marathon, Mizuno Wave Run.

Registration starts at 630am at Temasek Polytechnic, located at Bedok. And imagine I am staying at Bishan! Luckily, I realise that somewhere near my house, there is a somewhat direct bus going to Temasek Polytechnic.

Amidst all my preparations, I woke up in horror to find it was raining heavily at about 5am. I quickly nudged Ed (who was staying over at my place the night before) to ask him should we still go. However I was still quite stubborn and insisted in going. Afterall this was my first marathon.

When the rain got smaller, we took a cab down (after 20mins of waiting in the rain.) We wanted to call a cab but clever us, we left our handphones at home.

We successfully reached at 715am and the weather had gotten better. I was surprise by the optimistic turnout. We then warmup and started running.

We completed the run in 30 mins! I did not know we have finished the run as there was no indication of "Finish Line". When i was near the ending point for the 5km fun run, what I heard was " 10km runners, please keep to the left." My mind was then yelling, " What about the 5km runners? Arent we runners too!!!"

As I need to answer nature's call and with a restroom in sight, I dashed for it. Ed then caught hold of me and asked me to pass him my goodie bag tag. I was like "Are you 100% certain that we have finish?" Anyway, there is no harm in giving him the tag.

Guess what, when I came out of the washroom, Ed was holding both goodies...

Woo-hoo, we have really completed the run. I was so proud of myself! We also managed to save ourself from queuing as Ed was one of the first few to collect the goodies. About 15mins later, the queue was horrendous!

Clueless about if there is any other activities going on, Ed and I left the place at about 9am for a nice breakfast.

Oh ya, we signed up for another 12km Safra run on Sunday too!! Upcoming event in End August. Looking forward to it. I am sure I can finish 12km in maybe an hour plus plus.. (Cross my fingers *^^*)