Monthly Archives: February 2014

4243 days ago Leave a comment Permalink

Sub-six!

Hurrrah! I fumbled for several months, but last week, I finally did cross out another line from my pseudo ‘Baket List.’ I’m finally a marathoner!

Effin Finally!

I have to admit that I didn’t give much into the journey, with my longest before the race just a measly 21k where I even hurt myself. It was euphoric the moment I stepped onto that finish line and realized that all the running and walking for over six hours was over and I finally had a chance to rest. I also felt faaar better than my last race, which was just half of what I did. I could attribute it to Bub and her parents’ support, Eric being a fantastic running buddy, the Chia and the whatnot. In the end, you could just imagine what I was feeling thinking I had a lot to improve, if I only did get really serious.

Downside though’s I think I gave my second toe a beating, and it was hurting all throughout the race. At just over 7kms, it was already numb. I thought removing my right sock and my compression sleeve would help, but it didn’t change much other than me finishing in a weird outfit. I was able to massage the toe at times when it hurt a lot, but I think it didn’t help a lot too, and just made my time longer. In the end I just ignored the pain, finished barely within 6 hours, and decided to finally retire my running shoes. It has served me well, but it’s also begging to be let go.

 

Yaaay marathon!

4252 days ago Leave a comment Permalink

What’s for tomorrow?

I was already punching in this to twitter but lacked out of space. Tomorrow, or tonight, I expect to be brutalized as I attempt to pull myself through one marathon even without much training. It will be one hell of a feat if I finish. I hate running, and I hate it even more that I have no one to do it with. I’m pressuring encouraging bub to try it next year, and I promised I won’t do any this year to qualify again.

And with that big test, I feel terrible that I accepted coming to work only to find out there’s barely anyone here. Guess they ran out of fuel after several grueling weeks. Yesterday was one of the tougher days, and it’s eerily calm here where I sit, so I can at least enjoy the fact that this relaxes me for the test tomorrow.

I also, with finality, found out that bugger annoying my experience with T***. Asked my friend yesterday to fix my AV and FW problems hoping it’d kill that CPU spike problem, only to be back again with an unmanageable program. That at least eliminated my hunch, so it was back to checking that ad profile. Logging in, I was hit with the dreaded ‘”The Group Policy Client service failed the logon. Access is denied.” error. I knew then that it was profile related. So after a few key ins and clicks, I was back with a, finally smoothly working program.