A New Beginner

Hello, loyal reader(s)! Yes, it's been a whole week - that's how long it's taken me to recover... Last week's 10K went well! Yay to us. I did just ok, but I'm happy with my time and race position (1:25 and came in with the first 35% of the women's 10k runners). And runningstitch did AWESOME! (1:15 and top 14%!!) Woo-hoo!

I think I didn't eat enough of a breakfast so at about 7km I was *starving*!! Resources depleted. Systems shutting down. Ha ha. That's my excuse. Anyway, I was all sore and feeling - oddly - congested for a couple of days after. So... I prescribed myself plenty, plenty of rest.

And today, finally, I ran again. This time, with no deadline looming, I'm really going to try to improve my pace. Ran "faster" on the treadmill today. Did about a 6:35min/k for 3k and that was not too bad, though I doubt I could have made it for longer. The thing is, I think there is truth to the fact that you *can* run too slowly. Too slowly and you actually expend a lot of energy still - so it's not necessarily any better; in fact, it's more inefficient. So... let's see how I manage to improve...

Onward!

p.s. need new shoes, just like runningstitch! hehehe

DDay -1

Am frantically trying to upload songs into iPod, and wondering whether at all to run with music tomorrow, and at the same time feeling extremely frustrated by iMac not ejecting CDs! Arrrrgghhh.

Must remember to charge iPod!

Am I panicking!?!!?!?!?!

At lunch earlier, ate an entire plate (L) of roasted duck rice, then polished off Jaime's and Jared's leftovers, then had a bowl of cheng tng. Feel absolutely ill now. Drinking water like mad. Maybe I should go eat all that jelly still in the fridge too. One needs plenty of fuel to run 10k, no?

This week, ran on Monday and Wednesday. Thursday, Friday were spent being coughed at, sneezed on by 5- & 6-year-olds
who constantly needed water/food/toilet. Mediating skills had been severely put to test, as was patience and self-control. Anyway, as with earlier 5k run, I never actually ran the full distance before the actual run. I can only hope it works again this time, and that Opus and self are in good enough shape and health to finish in a decent time..... sob

Today's plan is to do nothing strenuous, have lots of water and carbo load and sleep early!

Week 18!

WAAAAAHH! I had such a busy week too!!

I only managed to run on Wednesday and even then I could only squeeze in a measly 20 min run. Boo. But it was good. And, see how far I've come when I can actually call a 20 minute run "good". Running makes your mind go bonkers.

Thurs was tennis day so that was nice. And then... nothing. Nothing, nothing. Until.. SUNDAY! Waaah!