Your Own Wish

When Syah/Kash hollered the plan for a Friday night LSD at Putrajaya last week, I straight away decided to join in, with a target of doing more than 20km. Though I was having a pre-ITB like pain at my left knee, the mind had set its focus of doing the run. That also mean that I will stay back at my office until 8pm before proceeding to PoJ since it would be just ridiculous to get stuck in the notoriuos Friday's evening traffic jam on the way back to Shah Alam. The earliest that I could reach home would be around 7.45pm and no way I would be just as excited to go out again in the interval of 5-10 minutes, driving all the way to Putrajaya.

A focused mind, though faced with minor setbacks would lead you to achieve what you have planned for. The distance of 24km done that night is nothing to shout about at all but I could easily threw in the towel at around KM17 (behind PICC) when sleepiness came to attack without any warning at all. Honestly I never imagined before that one can be sleepy whilst running but there I was, trying to continue plodding with a heavy, very heavy eyes. Luckily I ran with Kash and she kindly offered me her power gel. Rais was also there ready to provide water and accompanied me when I was reduced to walking while trying to reach the center of the bridge in front of PICC. Thanks again guys! Once the grogginess left my body, I was ready to go, with a re-set mind to complete the entire loop, whats more when Kash said, "No discount". The last KM was when Kash pushed me to give whatever I had left in me to finish strong.

At the opposite side of the spectrum, I just lost focus and interest when I did my morning run yesterday. I didn't even plan to run in the first place since the itenary was to be at the Section 6 wet market by 8am. I woke up a bit late, no thanks to the late night sleep. Told wife that I could do the shopping alone but I might do a couple of loops at Tasik Shah Alam first before proceeding to the wet market. I half heartedly stopped at the lake and told myself to try to run 3 loops (around 11. 5km). With such non-committal mind set at work, I easily raised the white flag just after 1 1/2 loops done.

The real battle after all is all within the mind. The better one will subscribe to the taglines of "Dare to Dream", "Never Say Never", "Tak Cuba Tak Tahu Lagi" and their equivalents and I am fortunate to know many of those souls around. At the end of the day, it started with your own wish.

Best Wishes to All runners out there! :)