Journals of a Marathon Runner – Training Week 1

Decided to begin my double session Trainings.

They had given me a fair amount of results last year.

But the most difficult thing is this initial part, to tune the body to this new type of stress.

Mon

AM – 1hr run on Grass @ Cosy Bay.

PM – Ran home fr work, stopped by track to lengthen session.

Tue

Smiliar to Mon

Wed

AM – Hills, 10 x Shears Bridge

PM – Swam 20 + laps, ran to swimming pool, ~20mins

Thurs

PM – 1hr ++ Run with 20 – 30 mins steady effort

Fri

Rest

Sat

AM – 12km, 2k warm up, 6-7km at steady effort.

PM  - Strength Training + 5k easy

Sun

AM – 25k

FELT LIKE SHIT.... its those days you know the pace isn't fast, yet you cannot increase or sustain, had a dread feeling within. Rather bad training week. Could have been an Accumulation of tiredness or "Over Training". Did the passion run 10k on sunday, 37:58 for 10.4km, so late 36 for 10km. Been doing that far too often, resuming training immediately after races. Need Rest.

Come and Sit by my side if you love me ........

Bad day at work, seems like i can never escape from the pple problem in singapore, not even if i am miles away. Its worse when i am away and nv sure wat is being discussed in my absence. Y have things got to so complicated? i always enjoy criticism and feedback, i appreciate people's effort to correct me. I always enjoy open and generous discussion to gather different view points, apparently , the world doesnt function this way..... pple are rooted too long that their egos had expanded beyond the universe, hereby its so easy to cross over to their "promised land" causing this counter attacks. Come on , we are all from the same company, arent we suppose to fight an external war, not the internal one? How can the company move forward thus? after hearing so many horror stories of the chinese, i find ourselves the ugliest and the one that shld be damned.... unfortunately.....

Know i am going to get shit ... haiz... today, the chinese company is having a small celebration  , someone is moving house and having their version of a house warming party... basically all the vices combined.... another attraction is to celebrate my arrival to the company... got the worse horror entering the resturant, 1 box of chinese poison, Bai Jiu.... cup after cup, everyone is toasting to me neverending , got such a bad headache in the end. Went to his new place after that, beautiful and big, have this beautiful poetry placed on his living room , "dan yuan ren chang jiu"... superb. Its plenty of smoking , drinking and gambling in e end. They sent me back earlier... luckily... amist the swimming effect , i am still very much setback by what had happened in the office.

Cant rest and have to tend to the matter again, finally gotten some time to rest at near midnight. When i switched on the tv, e show "da shi dai" was on, its that particular sweet episode when e girl sang this lovely song......" come and sit by my side if you love me...." very soothing and nice..... :O) at least i found some comfort after a crazy day and night. that baijiu is still bumping ard my tummy and the taste still lingering ard... argghhhh.......

Hos-stupid-ital

Decided to take the wkend off for some much needed relaxation away from the hustle..... but realised that there isnt much to do either. Woke up early , usually 6 + here, duno y that i just cant slp any longer than that, maybe e sun rises much earlier here and my bed is directly under the window... love that ... able to watch e sky n stars while being summoned to dreamland.

the wk had been quite an adventure. My chinese colleague on the way to drive me to work, met an accident, knocked down an old man, that old man was traveling in the wrong direction...  it was a small incident, a bad fall, but on 1st look , i was terrified, mistaken the soya bean milk that spill all over for something else....

the hospital here is a nightmare. i had to carry tt poor old man up the ambulance, carry him everywhere in the hospital. no one bothers there. the docs there might as well wear a black colour lab coat as all their coats are digustingly stained beyond my hygene expectations.They left e old man at the door , where e cold wind blew, when he commented that he wants to puke , e attendant said , no worries , dun need to care much abt it... in e end , he puke all over himself , i was so worried that he might choke on his puke...

done some CT and X-ray scans. the x-ray scan was done while we will stilll in the room , hurray ! for all the x-ray beams.... the family members that arrived werent much better either , demand compensation after a while... haizzz... seems that their main concern wasnt for this poor old dude but the money tt they can make out of it....

Made our way back to the accident area and back to the traffic police station. Apparently the traffic police live below my friend, he called his family to inform her family, that in the end informed many more others. So at the station, there was hell alot of pple , uncle , auntie , friends.... thats somehow a kampong style place rite?

Headed back to office after that , no way i am goin to the hospital here........ scary place to be in....