Toruk Makto!

Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2010 - Users

There you go. After so much fuss about registering, today I've made up my mind - why so hard to decide la dude? Three weeks ever since I crossed the finish line - defeated & pasrah. Hah! Lesson learned. This time, I'm coming back strong. Godspeed. ROTF. Rise of the Machine. Toruk Makto!

The three weeks journey was not quite kind also. It was rather merciless - just like Megatron. There was not a single moment that allows me for muhasabah. Not a chance. Tight. Knotted. You name it. The third week was the hardest. Smacked right to ground zero. Right after my weekend ride, when body laid fatigue, exposed to harmful germs - voila! They call it the stomach flu. Whole week of tempo runs to the loo. Nothing less than five times a day. First day was the worst. SIX trips that night alone. You can just imagine the dehyration crisis Í was in. The nutritions, vitamins, fat, stamina, etc - all down the flush. Royal ones. As of right now, I'm crawling back up, collecting my thoughts as I go. I even lack the confidence to get back on the road.

People say you need to fall and rise to be stronger. That psychological drive is a booster. Yes, perhaps it helps to fuel that engine. Especially when we are talking about months of training. Running a marathon is one of it. I fell twice in my first mara - pardon me for the memorabilia. I just recovered from a month of acute sinusitis. A month of topsy turvy between surviving deformed nose, sinusitis migraines & fasting in 2008 Ramadhan. The breakthrough brought light to my life. It was sunshine everyday. It never felt better. That was when I decided to sign up for my first marathon. However, I trained too hard without cautious. Third month into training, got myself a hamstring pull. It pulled so hard, I thought I had to say good-bye to marathon. A month rehab. I came back - hard as well.

This time around, I take it as the same phenomena. Though I realised time is not quite feasible, be it the training quantum nor my availability, I will give this one a shot. I had other agendas to drive me to the finish line. I signed up for Run for a Cause! Click the top link guys. It's for cancer. I've been longing to run for something. Shuk showed me the way. Thanks bro. A doctor in the States dedicated his 20 marathons to his local pediatric ward. He brought them each medals from donors everytime after his marathon. I lost two friends to cancer. Tragic ones. Watching the love ones they left was depressing enough.

OK ladies and gentlemen, it is back to the drawing board. Time to strategize. Time to heave each other with motivations. Time to make headlines in the local races again. Time to get a new pair of shoes?! Ammah! Let us run. We'll never know we will die of cancer or what but at least we know that we are running for it - promo sikit apa salahnya kan? ;)