People meant well to cheer you on, but you prefer them quiet.

Oh alright, I haven’t trained much since week 8.

You’d think less time in fundraising = more time in training.  The opposite is true.  May be this speaks of the general human problem (mine for one!), you perform better when watched, no?

Meanwhile many were amazed (in particular those who don’t work out at all ), a friend of mine who’s done a few marathons looked at my half-marathon results last year, genuinely bewildered, he said, ‘Why were you running so slowly?  I don’t get it.  You have no weight to carry.’  Hahahah, and that is right.  It takes the true to know the false.

The same thing that makes the day beautiful makes you almost sick of it, do you feel that sometimes?

When I got out and did it anyway, as it turned out it wasn’t as bad as the mind had me imagined.  That’s similar to our daily routine, is it not?  Quit fretting over unfavourable circumstances, keep at it, work at it, be useful, on to the next thing.

Just this past Sat when it was gloomy, rainy, and very windy indeed, everyone bails..
so that these birds were my only companions (look, so many of them…  Mmmm… bird soup)

Precisely because I’ve done half marathon before, that’s why I’m doing 10K this time!