Friday, April 10, 2009

1st trial Running At Midnite Hour

As Sundown Marathon is just a month away we have decided to do nite familiarization run, to get our body to be acclimatized with the wee hours.
We were supposed to start the run at 11pm from Sengkang CC, but the weather was not so kind to us, rained cats and dogs. Mike wanted to cancel the run, but since 4 of us already waited in CC so we were praying that the rain stopped before midnite that we may proceed with the plan. Mother nature was really listening to our prayer, soon the rain stopped, we proceed with the run, 9 of us agreed to take it slow and easy to get the body to run after midnite. We tackled the Yio Chu Kang - Upper Thomson road till the junction to Manday road, it gave us approx 11-12km. Reached the petrol kiosk (u-turn point) we took some photos. During the run back to CC, we could feel our batteries slowly diminishing, the route as we knew, it's quite a challenge. We were so lucky having Russell, our comrade to support us driving and acting as water pitch-stop. Not known to us he had prepared a surprise waiting for us in the finish point. We reached CC safely but shagged. A lined of Roti Prata packets quickly boosted our energy----tired, wary and aching.. we still had some fun chattering and bickering each other.
What a nite!!!!!