"I am William Wallace, and before me, I see a whole ARMY of my countrymen here to battle the English. Ay, fight and you may die, run and you'll live. At least a while. And dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives.... but they'll never take our FREEDOM!!"
So, should I run and die in bed? That's confusing. I'm running to the battle dude! I came across this quote yesterday but not from William Wallace. It came from James "Howling Mad" Murdock. Crazy bugger. Always love the character. I saw The A-Team and it was one hell of a blast. - so many of them, for the whole 117 minutes. Boom sana sini. Perhaps all those explosions triggered my pounding heart. I think so la. Hazardous, especially when one have two jittering days to go!
Never mind that. I think everyone does. Perhaps even the pros have jitters. Even worse, they have pro-jitters! Now that's something. Anyway, the big day will come and it is best to have some plans laid out so as not to go whacky and run like a lunatic. I'm a Green Guy. No, not Hulk. The structured type - that's what they told me ages ago. I love to have plans but yet to improve to work on it :)
I love it when a plan comes together!
Today, race kit collection at Taman Tasik Titiwangsa. I'm going at 12.00 p.m. Shall grab 4 Powergels (strategise each for every 10k) - that means I'll be sipping the last one at the finish line?! Ammah! See, my maths is getting worse...
- Will start swigging Nuun today.
- Will start having Italian and France food today.
- Will be getting Qiblat's direction today at Seputeh area and locate solat spot.
- Will run a bit later today if weather permits.
- Will pack up my gears tomorrow.
- Will plan Saturday's schedule to avoid unnecessary fatigue.
- Leaving home at 3.30 a.m. Sunday by bike.
- Will freak in an hour waiting for flag-off.
- A bottle of Gato and a Powerbar in that one freaking hour.
- Anchor! Anchor! And more anchoring...
- Will pre-order nasi kandar at Ibrahimsha for post race carboload :)
I'll be wishing lucks to everybody everyday until race day. Even at the start line. Good luck dearest buddies. May the force be with you, always. Don't do anything insane these last few days.
Wow! this sounds like a best laid plan! reading this has given me the elusive jitters..
ReplyDeletegood luck, bro! have fun at it! see you come at the gridline
ijam, where art thou?
ReplyDeleteI'll tag along with u, until the solat spot. Then u can leave me behind. Thanks. :)
ReplyDeleteGood luck bro! May u achieve your sub 4:30 target. Stay focus.
P/s: don't forget to prepare your air ketum and air badak!
Ijam pening, durian OD!
ReplyDeleteAnyway, Old Goat aka KIng Mambo, catch you at dataran ya! I'll come back to read this after class.
diket see u at stadium nanti, gonna use ur checklist !!
ReplyDeleteMy blog doesnt seems to update the blogs i follow..dont know why...
ReplyDeletekalah lagi...huhu...pengsan last night..
Good luck my dear friend..
good strategy of riding your motorbike..can tumpang?
eh that morning jumpa kat flagpole ka? bukak nasi lemak makan atas tikar...
ReplyDeleteeh urut badan lepas lari tarak?
Crushio, I'm honored to have given you the jitters. Which gridline? Besides Kenyans? :)
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Nik. We can run together all the way - if I can follow your pace. No air ketum or air badak la this time.
See ya Haza. Dataran it is.
June, Titiwangsa stadium ka? Sure. And hope the checklist helps.
Ijam, somebody might have sabo your pc.
Thanks. Wanna lift? No problem but very the early tau.
Flagpole too far la Syah. Meet up at simpang behind start line. Di sebelah kanan masjid, di depannya mini market! :D
good luckie! may the force be with you, or force you, or you force it, whatever :P
ReplyDeleteurut badan yg kena bayar rm10 tu ada kot? mcm last race kat putrajaya.. alah, compeni dia nape ape thah, yg ada opis kat KL central tu..
Bro, last powergel kat finishing line tu part of training for ultra next year..hehehehe. All the best bro. C u this sunday.
ReplyDeleteTgk highlighter kaler oren tu jer aku dah tambah seram... dah laa seramsejuk layan demam nie... Good luck King!
ReplyDeleteThanks Che. Same goes to you. That should be Equal Fitness bro.
ReplyDeleteYou too Ziff. Too bad we didn't had the chance to lunch sama today. Make it a must after Sunday's race OK.
The orange highlighted miles should make it look shorter. We just need to run 5km for 8 times. Is my multiplying good?