Food for your soul

Interesting turns on Sunday

At 630am, I buzzed my "hubby" if he was awake for Mizuno Wave Run. It was very early fresh morning that about more than 1000 heartlanders and a few teams of dragon boat people signed up.

"Hubby" buzzed me that he was picking up in yellow cab and we headed to Kovan where the run begun at 730am.

I never run for 10km for almost 3months. What a long dry spell for me not to run till yesterday.I told myself to pace myself at slow motion at the start.

Pink bibs numbers for competitive ladies, Green bibs numbers for competitive men and white bibs number for those who take part in fun run.

Flag off at Kovan Hub and the crowd begin to run...At 2.5km, many people grabbed to drink well-deserved water and threw cups on ground. At 5km, i felt heat and sweats coming from the runners.

The atmosphere were still high and people started to slow down. Some people were seen walking. Bravo of my team mate, Victor who was seen using ski sticks to support his crippled legs. He was doing "Terry Fox" style... What a great style!!!

Saw my hunky coach running ahead of me with his team mates. At the end of the run, many people were seen grabbing free goodies bags with exclusive dri-fit shirts. "Hubby" sat on the pavement near ambulance, frowning..I asked him what happen. He did not eat breakfast before the run and felt dizzy. Wearing tight cap was another factor to his dizzness. Lucky man that he finished his run.

Rushed home to take my stuffs for my dragon boat. Excitement still high because my team will have combined training with visually handicapped people to do rowing. My coach was "loaned" to my team because he was the coach for visually handicapped team.

Co-ordination in stroking were corrected by the coach and getting the team to do the sets. Shiok...I was so excited because it really motivated my team to work harder and take training seriously for upcoming race, SAVA Sprint.

I only can pray that by the race, the team will be fit enough to do well in the race.

posted by citrusby @ 7/25/2006 09:04:00 PM