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OK, so the race day arrived( this was sometime at the end of June)....

Improperly prepared me , went for it anyhow with another running buddy. The event was a bit chaotic. All major roads were closed at 5am. So, I had to get to wherever I wanted to go by car, at 4.30am, which meant getting up at 3.30am to prepare, which meant that I didn't sleep the night before..
Well, the atmosphere during race day was actually festive..there was loud music blaring, christmassy lights everywhere, runners hopping, prancing, wiggling and you could almost smell the adrenaline in the air....it rained earlier , so the weather was really nice and cool...
Before i knew it people started filling up the start line i was waaaaaaaay at the back. Never mind i thought, i'd stay right behind and hopefully the traffic would clear and I'd be able to run. Boy was i wrong.....it was like trying to run through a human wall... there were mums pushing prams, people chatting on handphones, runners walking leisurely...i guess no one heard about slow runners on the left, fast on the right and giving way.....so the first 5 kms of running was pretty much spent weaving in and out of bodies, running on pavements, intervals of walking because of human traffic jams...
But it was still fun - being at the back, there was this whole column of bobbing human heads in front, the weather was wonderful and i enjoyed my self very much.
The distance was supposed to be 10kms but my GPS watch said no, it was 10.6kms...and i managed to finish it in 58m23s. And i came 30th out of 3000+ runners in the same category....and then the sponsors decided to use the gun time instead of the actual running time, so i dropped more than 30 spots...oh well.....whatever.....till the next race.
Nomi signing out.