She started jogging around her neighbourhood in late 2004, her main aim was to �肥. (nothing to do w running a marathon utimately & at tat time, she dint even know abt SCM this thing!)
Subsequently, her good friend also caught her “jogging bug� & started jogging with her on every Saturday morning. This is what goes through their SMS on a Friday night: -
Charlotte: 7 am meet at “Long Kang� ok ?
Fren: Sure ! See u there.
Charlotte: Where do you want to jog to? & where are we having breakfast ah?
Fren: I will follow u …
Slowly, jogging to her is not only about �肥. It allows her catch up with her (1) good fren, (2) jog to different part of Singapore, discovers that there are a lot of interesting places in Singapore that she do not know & have never been before! (3) Have breakfast at different places (FYI -- > Charlotte loves breakfast ! She can go without lunch or dinner .. but not breakfast)
In 2004, her jogging buddy suddenly just emailed her, “Oooi ..will you be back Singapore in Dec? want to join SCM a not ? We run 10KM together lar�
The thoughts that went thru her mind at that time was, “ok lor … just try .. if cannot, just walk lor .. no big deal�.
She was really very happy that she joined SCM, not because of good timming, it was because she completed it TOGETHER with her buddy. They cross the finishing line together.
She gets “high� on jogging .. just like getting “high� on alcohol. The feeling is the same, if not, greater. (During her WHR, she actually sms her fren & say “WAH .. I feeling v high now� ) Jogging let her have time to think, to be with herself, to hear her own thoughts.
For her till now, she enjoys every run. She don’t like to know that she is “TRAINING� and not Running because she enjoy it. She don’t like to think that she needs to train so that she can complete a marathon. She feels that there are enough things in life that you are doing it because you NEED to do it & not you WANT to do it. She still want to let jogging be something she wants to do and not need to do.
And of course, there is this fear in her. If she is to join a marathon & take 6 or 7 hrs to complete it, it means that she will be jogging till past noon? OMG .. so hot .. how can tahan? She will be cursing & swearing. Need a lot of mental motivation to tahan till the end, which she don’t think she have now.
She hopes to complete it & not give up halfway. She want to be able to sms her frens & tell them that she complete her first marathon ! She don’t want the first marathon to be her last one, because the first one has kill any joy she have in running.
Of course, when she read people’s blog on their thoughts when they run their first marathon. She hopes that she will have a chance to pen her thoughts one of these days too.
She would want to test her endurance and mental power one of these days. Able to tell other people that “She finally did it� whether was it in style or not ? At least, she did it.
ok .. think she have blabber enuff … boring everyone already …
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