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4 months…. that’s how long since I put on my running shoe to go for a run…. (beside the recent IPPT test)…. and man!!!!, It was damn shag but at the same time it was a great feeling!!!.

I met up with a friend of mine to go for a run tonight, as we had not been running, we set a short distance for ourselves, just to test out where had my standard of running had drop to.

We decided to run from Downtown East to a canal just after the Loyang Temple, the distance, 6km. Ha, and guess what, just above 1km plus, I already start to feel my leg getting stiffen up, and even before I cleared Pasir Ris Area, my singlet was already wet and i’m already panting…. In my mind I was like “Gesh, can’t believe it… am I getting old or what? I had yet to reach the turning point and I already going to shag out…. ha, you must be joking.”

Determined not to give up, I started to think about my purpose of running and my missed opportunities in the past two marathons. I reminded myself that my purpose of running was not only to keep fit but also to use it to remind myself that whenever I stopped running, my fitness will start to drop, and that’sserve as a reminder to my life too, whenever I stop working hard, things will start to deteriorate, at the same time running also remind me that, as long I continue to work hard, I can increase my distance and timing as time goes by and it’s the same when it come to our life. As long we continue to work hard and improve, our all aspect of life will improve as time goes by.

Next, is my goal to run my marathon, twice in the past two years, I had fallen ill at the last moment and thus failed to attend the annual running event. Is time to break the cruse, and for this year, I’m determined to start my training early and set my physical condition right so that I will not make it 3 times in a row that I will miss the marathon.

Amazingly from the few seconds of self-thoughts, I managed to gather my energy to finish the run and in the end, I was able to last the 6km run and not feeling tired at all. Yes, I was totally soaked with my perspiration but I feel great and refreshed!!!

It’s really great to be running again, now I just can’t wait for the next run and this time round I will go for a further distance and trust me, sure and slowly I will be running a longer and longer distance in no time and of cos, when MARATHON 2009 come, I will ensure that  I will be fully prepared!!

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!