Just another Sunday morning run

I ran another half marathon race this morning and this time was for a charity called ADRA. I managed to raise NZD150.00 thanks to all the generousity of friends. The run was held at the beautiful Mission Bay fountain.



To much of my surprise there were quite a few people participating this event. I got there at about 6am to collect my race number and timing chip. Yes this time I was number 2065. Lotto anyone?

Came 6.45am, we were all waiting at the starting line (finishing line is at the same point as well).


It seem like there were never enough port-a-loo to use in most, if not all of the events like this. People, including me, still needed to queue for ages to relieve our bladder for the last time before the race started eventhough the gun was about to go off in two minutes. In fact, the race started while I was still in the loo! Duh!



This race I felt was a little harder than the last one specially for the first 5km, up some steep hill towards the cliff of Lady's Bay in St. Heliers and then around Glover Park, more hills. But it was good that I 'conquered' it! And the rest was pretty much flat ground around East Tamaki Drive.



Here came me. What's that face?



That's a much better pose!



Now eat my dust lol.



After a hard and long 21km of keep driving my tired feet forward, step after step, wondering why I did this (NOT!), this lady was like a God sent when she appeared with this magic sign right before my eyes!



After the last half marathon in the beginning of this month I didn't train as much as I should because I had two weeks of recovery, one week of training and one taper week before today's half marathon. That might be the reason why I thought I struggled a bit. Because of this, the hope of me finishing faster than 2 hour 25 minutes (my personal best from Auckland Marathon) has certainly gone out the window.



This was me approaching the finishing line.



From my expression, I admit at that stage I just want this to be over so that I could have a fat burger.



We did. We went to Burger King straight after that. It was very yummy.



When I looked up to the timer above the finishing line, I was totally over the moon to see I actually cut ten minutes off my personal best time from my last race! Go me!



After all the hardwork sweat pouring, I've been rewarded with this medal and few other bits and pieces from the event sponsors.



It's all worth it in the end. This will be my second half marathon race added onto my 'repertoire'.


Oops I did it again!

Just like to thank my hubby to be there support me all these time. It certainly meant alot to me.