pain

I'm in pain now!! Should have listened to my dad and trained more! The lateral side of my tibia is painful where the ITB inserts. Going to try to relieve the pain now using salonpas and heat. hehe

half marathon!

I survived the half marathon! It was fun but painful towards the end. It really is a mental challenge, to keep pushing myself thru the pain and the many "how long more to the finish line?" My legs were cramping at the last 5km and at times I couldn't feel them and at other times they were like rocks. It was a long 5km! But thank God that I didn't actually get cramps although I was close to having one or two! It was nice to run with my brother too!

And I actually survived when my dad thought that I will not be able to make it. haa. I was running behind this girl and she wrote one the paper that you can pin on the back of your shirt to inspire people: "my dad thinks I can't do it. But I can!" something along those lines and I thought it was really funny! good on her! Actually I think my dad thinks that I have not been exercising in Australia and he kept nagging at me to train since I got back!

My first time running a half marathon has been really good and hopefully there will be some more in the future!