Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon had once again ended with a big BANG!! This year, they had about 50,000 runners running for them. Wow, can you image 50,000 people, the event has really become one of the biggest running event in Singapore. How I wished I was one of the 50,000 runners on that Sunday.
Well, theoretically, I’m one of the 50,000 as i had already registered myself for the event many months ago, but on the other hand, I am not one of them and that;s because, once again I didn’t went for the run!!!
Ergh!!! that the 3rd time that I had signed up for a marathon and again I didn’t get to participant in it!!! To be frank, I’m quite angry about the whole situation, but at the same time I know that It can’t be help that I have to give it a miss again!!
Well, a man got to do what a man got to do, I really had to give it a miss this time as I was sick once again. I had been having this sickening cough for the past 7 days and at this point of the blog entry I’m still coughing. I had been looking forward for the marathon this year, as for the past few years I had missd it and it’s been 3 years since I told myself that I will finish a marathon. Time and time again, things will happened in the last min and I had yet to complete one marathon, once was due to job assignment the other two time which includes this year is due to sickness.
But this year, I really want to participant so much, that it was only at 3am on Sunday morning that I told myself that I should once again to drop the idea to run. The main reason is that I really need to be responsible. Why? it is because, being responsible is not only for my own health, but also to be responsible to other people who cares for me.
A few days before the marathon, I had many people around me telling not to go as I was still coughing badly, and that includes my friends, my colleagues, my boss and most importantly my family members.
At first, I still want to go, but as the date gets nearer, and more people telling me not to go, even to the point at 3am in the morning!! There were a SMS asking me “”Hey! Are you sure you still want to go, If you are still coughing, better not go, dun be stubborn, is 42km man, and there’s always another marathon but there’s only one Jones!” that was when that I started to realise that “Hey, what am I doing? how come I’m so stubborn that even I’m sick I still want to go for the marathon, can’t I see that because of my stubborn, I have put so many people in a worrying situation, How can I be so irresponsible.”
It was that thought that came to me that made me decided to give the marathon a miss. Althought, it still feels like a miss opportunity but then again this miss opportunity had made me realised that there are many people around me that cares for me, and I learnt that I should be more responsible, not only to them but also to myself to live well and rest well so that these people will not worry for me again. Thank you all for all the care and concern. I promised next time that I will only participant in the marathon only when I’m fully fit and not when I still nursing my cough so that, all of you will be supporting for me rather then worrying for me…..I promised! 
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