Standard Charted Singapore Marathon. Right.

Where do i start. Hm.. Lets start on 4th Dec, where my mom bought this "Energy bar" for me.. Apparently its high in fat content and burns fat into fuel for us to run. Dad wanted to give it a test run. So yea. I ate half of it.

Result? I couldn't sleep for the whole 7 hours from 8pm to 3am.. -.- Great! I was wide awake for the whole time. So yea... At 3am, i went to Orchard road! Whats there except for the 19k people warming up for the 42km run. Hehe. The other 41k ppl were in 21km half marathon and 10km race.

So i went on and find my spot, started running. Great!

First 10km.. Awesome. I feel so light i could continue this for quite a long time. Thanks to the Banana i ate, the Redbull i drank, the Energy Bar my mom bought.. I could probably last quite awhile more... But that was FUCKING wrong. After clearing the initial 10km, which is the run from Orchard road to City hall, to marina bay floating platform, to F1 race track, Flyer, then to nicoll Highway all the way to East Coast Park. Thats the 1st 10km. Then it was the ECP stretch. PAWNED. The whole stretch of ECP last for 20km. Thats right. From 1 end of ECP to the other end which is at Changi Airport area.. WTH?!?!? The only good thing about this run along the 20km was that there was Banana Stations, Power Gel Stations (P.S, Power Gel taste like shit. I will probably not eat any power gel anymore in future marathons) and drink stations. ESPECIALLY drinks station. THats what helped me the whole 20km. Well, i could say i was doing fine because upon 30mins after entering ECP, i already saw the kenyan guys running out of ECP already. Hmm.. I cleared 10+km and they cleared 30km? WTF? So yea.. i started running. The stretch was ridiculously long.

If you think this ECP stretch is the worst it could get, then u are totally wrong. Whats worst was installed next, in the next 6km.

Just a side note, by the time i exited ECP, it was already at my 3 hour mark. Basically its 8am +. The morning sun is already out. Its hot. There was no rain.

So yea, this 6km, i ran, there were only 2 drinks station... THATS 3KM PER DRINK STATION! Considering how the 3km stretch pass the whole golf course near marina barrage, its freaking long. Around this path, it was already a WALK-FEST. Yup. Theres only a couple of runners that are truly running including me. Though i still stop after awhile because the sun was hot, there was no drinks, the distance was long.. So walk walk walk. OMG IS THAT A DRINKS STATION?!? CHIONG AR... Then you will see this whole group of people start rushing for the drinks. Well. Its basically like this for the golf course and the turn into Marina Barrage.. Well.. I thought this couldn't be worst...

Obviously wrong again la. The last 6km. Killer. I almost died. At around Marina Bay MRT, its where all the 3 categories runners join together for the run to padang. The time when i was there was 4 hours 20 minutes. Around 9.20am. everyone was practically on the same road.. It was CONGESTED. Yes. I couldn't run 50m without getting blocked and have to start walking soon. This stretch of road was the worst of the run so far because it was the whole experience put together from the past 36km.

1) There was no drink stall because we were running on the Expressway behind RWS.
2) The expressway was inclined like stairs. Not just normal incline but inclined like climbing stairs.
3) I can't run because people from the other categories saw the background of the expressway...

Runner A: Ohh LOOK!! Its the Singapore Flyer. Come take picture take picture.
Runner B to Z: OKOK. Come all post.
*Takes awhole 20 seconds just to take a picture.*
Runner A: Eh not good leh... The light too bright. Retake..
*Takes another few seconds*
Ok. Lets move on.. OMG ITS RWS LETS TAKE PICTURE.

-.- Yes. I was constantly cock-blocked by normal runners who basically didn't want to run because it was upslope, and also those camwhoring people who sign up marathons just to take picture.

I walked. I couldn't run anymore on that stretch. And when it was finally downhill, there was as expected, no drinks again. So we had to run to all the way up to nicoll highway again and turnback at singapore flyer before there was another drinks station. Finally, the last spurt of 2km to esplanade and finally padang was hot. HOT. It was already 10pm at that point. I missed my target of clearing under 5 hours. Damn. But i finished the marathon!

I'm proud to say i'm a VIRGIN MARATHONER no more. Haha. It was tiring and i cleared 42.195km in 5 hours and 20 minutes. =)