i'm beginning to worry somewhat because i'll be going in on sunday with only about 60km to my new shoes and because i think they've made me alter my stride and style significantly and are the cause of my recent ankle pains and aches in muscles that i'd never even knew existed.
add that to all the bonking / cramping horror stories i've been reading about lately
and i start thinking
what if i dont finish?
this is hilarious. Malaysian judgment on enforcement of a foreign judgment for gambling debts, per Ian Chin J: 931 Do not take to gambling, even if you can win, for your wins will be like the baited hooks that fish swallow. 932 To win once, a gambler loses a hundred times. What a way to procure happiness and prosperity! 933 Incessantly calling bets on rolling dice causes a man’s rich reserves and potential revenues to run elsewhere. 934 Gambling brings on many miseries and erodes one’s good name. Nothing else ends in such wretched poverty. 935 Desiring to win everything, those who love the dice, the gambling hall and their lucky hand lose it all. 936 Gambling is Misfortune’s other name. Fools ensnared by her will suffer an empty stomach and distressing sorrows. 937 Spending time in the gambling hall squanders ancestral wealth and wastes personal worth. 938 Gambling will consume a man’s wealth and corrupt his honesty. It will curtail his benevolence and increase his torment. 939 Those who take to gambling’s fickle gain forfeit these five: raiments, riches, rations, renown and erudition. 940 The gambler’s passion increases with the losses incurred. Even so does the soul’s craving for life grow with the griefs suffered." now this is the sort of stuff that perks me up in the middle of a boring study session. what fun legal research it must have been for him! he'd actually quoted from the Bible, the Qu'ran, and a book on Buddhism as well but reproducing it all would make my post too lengthy. so there. enjoy.
"Another civilisation that frowns upon gambling are the Hindus and I need only refer to the following couplets of the Tirukural, a 2,200-year-old South Indian Dravidian classic on ethical living and the revered scripture in South India, where they say:
i found a saying i like on the runners world forum!
"Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up and knows that he must outrun the slowest gazelle or he will die.
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up and knows that he must outrun the fastest lion or he will die.
So it doesn't matter if you're the lion or the gazelle. When the morning breaks, you'd better be running!"
haha ok i'm entertained by the stupidest things.
i ran for 3 hours plus today and of course the pain of hitting the wall is terrible but something more interesting happened.
i had run for so long that i found mini salt crystals on some parts of my arms and calves! and they looked really cute sitting there all white and glistening and i tried eating a few of the crystals and they were really salty! wow this is amazing. my body really produces salty salt!
this post will be all about running .. so read on only if you want to!
basically i got 'picked up' again at the track by yet another nus road race member. i told her that i was already in year 4, and she took it to mean that i wasn't interested. which wasn't entirely true. under any other circumstances i would have been keen but i really don't see how their trainings (which consists mainly of speedwork and intervals btw -- i asked) can fit in with my current marathon training plan. especially at this stage. from now till december what i need are long runs, not so much intervals. and going for their trainings on top of what i'm already doing will just about destroy what's left of my knees i think. so yes. i turned down my last ever chance to own the signature blue and orange 'team NUS' windbreaker. and the black and white NUS running singlet.
great eastern was ... i don't really know how to describe it. i didn't really train for it specifically; as in i never conducted my trainings with it in mind as an aim. Due to laziness + work etc i only did ONE 6k run the entire week leading up to it. on saturday night i was tired and grumpy. i left halfway through a torturous musical and came back but couldn't fall asleep. when i finally did i constantly drifted in and out of sleep all the way till 5am. oh i was feverish too.. can you believe it. and when 5 am came i really didn't feel like dragging myself out of bed and was so tempted to just give the whole thing a miss. but finally the thought of everyone starting w/o me and the groo saying that if i go i probably wouldn't regret it got me out of bed.
so .. i dunno. i ran it just like i would any normal 10k training run. maybe a little faster but no all out effort. overtook quite a few ppl along the way coz i'm a start-slow-pick-up-pace-and-end-fast person. it was over surprisingly quickly and my knees didn't hurt at all. got overtaken near the finish line coz i didn't sprint the last stretch. i wonder why i didn't either. it just never occurred to me to sprint. bleargh. and so i finished in 48:43 and in 37th place. and no, i didn't regret turning up.
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i'm beginning to worry somewhat because i'll be going in on sunday with only about 60km to my new shoes and because i think they've made me alter my stride and style significantly and are the cause of my recent ankle pains and aches in muscles that i'd never even knew existed.
add that to all the bonking / cramping horror stories i've been reading about lately
and i start thinking
what if i dont finish?
this is hilarious. Malaysian judgment on enforcement of a foreign judgment for gambling debts, per Ian Chin J: 931 Do not take to gambling, even if you can win, for your wins will be like the baited hooks that fish swallow. 932 To win once, a gambler loses a hundred times. What a way to procure happiness and prosperity! 933 Incessantly calling bets on rolling dice causes a man’s rich reserves and potential revenues to run elsewhere. 934 Gambling brings on many miseries and erodes one’s good name. Nothing else ends in such wretched poverty. 935 Desiring to win everything, those who love the dice, the gambling hall and their lucky hand lose it all. 936 Gambling is Misfortune’s other name. Fools ensnared by her will suffer an empty stomach and distressing sorrows. 937 Spending time in the gambling hall squanders ancestral wealth and wastes personal worth. 938 Gambling will consume a man’s wealth and corrupt his honesty. It will curtail his benevolence and increase his torment. 939 Those who take to gambling’s fickle gain forfeit these five: raiments, riches, rations, renown and erudition. 940 The gambler’s passion increases with the losses incurred. Even so does the soul’s craving for life grow with the griefs suffered." now this is the sort of stuff that perks me up in the middle of a boring study session. what fun legal research it must have been for him! he'd actually quoted from the Bible, the Qu'ran, and a book on Buddhism as well but reproducing it all would make my post too lengthy. so there. enjoy.
"Another civilisation that frowns upon gambling are the Hindus and I need only refer to the following couplets of the Tirukural, a 2,200-year-old South Indian Dravidian classic on ethical living and the revered scripture in South India, where they say:
i found a saying i like on the runners world forum!
"Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up and knows that he must outrun the slowest gazelle or he will die.
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up and knows that he must outrun the fastest lion or he will die.
So it doesn't matter if you're the lion or the gazelle. When the morning breaks, you'd better be running!"
haha ok i'm entertained by the stupidest things.
i ran for 3 hours plus today and of course the pain of hitting the wall is terrible but something more interesting happened.
i had run for so long that i found mini salt crystals on some parts of my arms and calves! and they looked really cute sitting there all white and glistening and i tried eating a few of the crystals and they were really salty! wow this is amazing. my body really produces salty salt!
this post will be all about running .. so read on only if you want to!
basically i got 'picked up' again at the track by yet another nus road race member. i told her that i was already in year 4, and she took it to mean that i wasn't interested. which wasn't entirely true. under any other circumstances i would have been keen but i really don't see how their trainings (which consists mainly of speedwork and intervals btw -- i asked) can fit in with my current marathon training plan. especially at this stage. from now till december what i need are long runs, not so much intervals. and going for their trainings on top of what i'm already doing will just about destroy what's left of my knees i think. so yes. i turned down my last ever chance to own the signature blue and orange 'team NUS' windbreaker. and the black and white NUS running singlet.
great eastern was ... i don't really know how to describe it. i didn't really train for it specifically; as in i never conducted my trainings with it in mind as an aim. Due to laziness + work etc i only did ONE 6k run the entire week leading up to it. on saturday night i was tired and grumpy. i left halfway through a torturous musical and came back but couldn't fall asleep. when i finally did i constantly drifted in and out of sleep all the way till 5am. oh i was feverish too.. can you believe it. and when 5 am came i really didn't feel like dragging myself out of bed and was so tempted to just give the whole thing a miss. but finally the thought of everyone starting w/o me and the groo saying that if i go i probably wouldn't regret it got me out of bed.
so .. i dunno. i ran it just like i would any normal 10k training run. maybe a little faster but no all out effort. overtook quite a few ppl along the way coz i'm a start-slow-pick-up-pace-and-end-fast person. it was over surprisingly quickly and my knees didn't hurt at all. got overtaken near the finish line coz i didn't sprint the last stretch. i wonder why i didn't either. it just never occurred to me to sprint. bleargh. and so i finished in 48:43 and in 37th place. and no, i didn't regret turning up.