2XU Compression Run

I headed over to Julia's place at around 11+pm last night as she stays rather near to the start-off point of the marathon. As usual, I couldn't fall asleep till 3+am. Took an hour nap and woke up at 415am to get ourselves ready. Julia's parents dropped us at the location and we just have to walk a kilometer to the starting point.

We reached the starting point at around 520am

And look at the insane queue. We were positioned at the third and last wave though we aren't late. The marathon starts at 530am by the way.

Its kind of confusing for runners in this marathon as roads aren't separate properly. There aren't cones or chains seen. And we almost went to the 2nd loop initally when we haven't even finished our 1st. Lucky for us, we realised that. Photo above taken when we are proceeding our 2nd loop. That's like about 9 clicks done. 

For this race, we ran quite a fair bits along the drains, parks etc

And around 13km, there isn't anymore pocardi sweat left. What they could give us are bananas at this 'water point'. To continue,  the following water points, they simply poured all the water into large container and used their bare hands to scoop the water using the cups they held with. Guess its just me. I dared not take in any fluids from then on.

Beautiful scenery

Couldn't help but to salute this guy

Something different from my other marathons, they gave us cold towel upon our arrival at the finishing line.

And we did it! We survived through the half marathon!! :)

Alliance with Singapore Cancer Society. Giving our support for patients by writing notes on metal plates to give them HOPE.

Looking at the above map, I think its pure insane. But I'm glad we pulled it through.

I think I could sleep well tonight. I'm exhausted from the past days. Its really quite easy to tell if I'm tired. I would be like a walking zombie; expression-less, blank and most importantly, I can't process any words that were directed/spoken to me. Terrible, aren't I?