I have never been a long distance runner. In school, I was a sprinter and my personal best for the 100 meters was 12.3 seconds, believe it or not. But that was when I was some 100 lbs lighter. I also used to run the 2.4 km below 12 ½ minutes but these days I struggle to run one km under 7 minutes. While I reminisced the days when I actually did 10 km runs in Singapore, I have not been able to run half that distance non stop ever since I outgrew my 29 inches pants.
My workout routine nowadays are confined one lap of a 1.5 km walk around Chatin lake near my office, followed by a 1.5 km run and finished with two laps walk around the lake totaling 3 km. May would do much better than me by running 3 laps and walk 1 lap.
Apr 18 – I started my usual 1.5 km walk to warm up before switching to a run. After the first lap, I told myself that I could do another and I pushed myself to do it. At the end of that lap, I continued running. In my heart, I wanted to complete a 3rd lap non stop. My mind kept psyching myself. I started counting my steps to distract my mind. Halfway round the lake, my back started to ache. My running slowed down to a slow trot but I kept on. Somehow the ache in my back seemed to be magnified with every step that I took. But 400 meters before the end, I caught my second wind. I started to pick up speed again and completed the 3 laps around the Chatin lake totaling 4.5 km.
It was the only the second time in a year that I managed to complete a 4.5 km run and believe me, it was milestone for me. Next milestone has to be a 6 km run.
I was tired and soaking wet but it felt good. My wish would be that by April 18, 2009, I would complete a 10 km run. Must “Jia You”.
Furious Fifties 
Jia You! Jia You! Little drops of water, little grains of sand…just keep going and by the time the distance is multiplied 10-fold, you would have run a marathon. My better half is still feeling the high from completing the London Marathon last Sunday; note that he first started running with only 2km laps around our neighbourhood.
Wah.. you look really good! Keep up the good work!
The pic does not do justice to the ‘soaking wet’ description at all…. I can attest that you can practically wring sweat out of your T’s after your run/walk session. Talk about DETOX eh? Good job man, keep it up!!!!!
keep up the good work.
I always think of….the lottle blue engine..
I think I can!
I think I can!
Thanks Dearies for the encouragement. Will report any progress.
Weel, I have never liked running, it was too heavy for me. I’m slim, I thought, that it’s not really my way to relax.
I run for 2 days already, and started to count with tracks in my player.
1st day – 2 tunes, 2nd day 5 tunes, I think that someday I will run for the whole album )
That really works! I enjoy my running in the morning!
Thanks Animado for the idea. Might just take up on it.