Road to Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2009 - Part 3

Part 3 - The Battle of Oranges

After my 'extensive' training (3 weeks) since getting the Adidas Shamiso, there is adrenaline rush to participate in the road race to testify my training result... and then I came across this race

But Yap Can Fly can only non-stop focusing here, because that words keep shouting at me

FREE ENTRY: "OMG!!"

BHPetrol's Orange Run has been organized for the past few years, and the best thing of it, it's FREE! No registration fee required, perfectly compliance with Yap Can Fly's budgeted (kiam siap) sport criteria. On this year (2009), the race route has been slightly changed, and extended to 11km, compared with year 2008 where the distance of the race was 9km.

The race start/end point was at Piazza, The Curve shoppping mall, Mutiara Damansara, PJ. Young and old, everyone had gathered there to join the excitement of the run. From the beginning of the race, I have been keeping my pace for the first 2km, enjoying the fun of passing other runners, till then... My ass was being whooped by those secondary school boys, and even girls! And the best part of it, they run with bare foot! I was wondering how on earth these peoples can run for 11km just with bare foot, not even wearing a Kiki Lala shoes...

But in Yap Can Fly's humble opinion, it's a must to wear running shoes during any road race, because you might not aware of what you will be stepping on during the race. For example

With a doggy do here

And a cat poop there

Here a poop, there a poop

Everywhere a poop poop

Old MacDonald had a farm

Ee I Ee I O

I finished the race at 1hour 18minutes 29seconds (based on gun time), which considered ahem... 'OK' I guess... as for a noob runner like Yap Can Fly...