It Paid Off Man!

Ok.. Ive just finished cleaning my closet for almost 2 hours. And glad that I decided throw all my "rare to wear" clothes. Aftet that I have no mood for buying new clothes again. 

Alsooo.. I have a loooott off jersey from hockey and a loooott off running clothes from some race. And now I have two boxes. One for hockey and one for running. Pheewww. 

Well back to two weeks ago at the end of  August I just finished my official marathon. Proudly said that I am marathon finisher with sub 4:30 time. I finished my 2nd Bali Marathon in 4 hours 23 minutes 37 seconds. Heheh.. Compare to my 1st marathon I was finished at 5 hours 7 minutes ish. 

For this marathon I took some coaching from my previous running coach from runiversity by indo runners. His name is Budi. He mentoring me during the training and always pushing me to give more along the program. 

Every week I ran interval twice at night and long run in every Sunday morning. But sometime I still keep practice hockey to keep tune up with the hockey skill. 

The training was super exhausted. I knew the marathon training wasnt easy, it need a commitment. And from the earlier I already set to finished the marathon at 4:30 minutes. From the beginning not pretty sure. But my 10k keep showing improvement. So it boost my confidence a little. 

On the race day I tried to prepare everything. Fueling and hydration and everything. Counting the split time so I can manage my energy. At the first 20km everything was on target. Well actually I managed to run at pace 5:40-5:58. Nailed the first hill. But after the 2nd hill at   28-30km ish my legs feel sore. Feel something wrong on my left foot. The sock not on the right place. Also the cramp hitted my knee. But when I found nearest water station and got iced at my right knee it much much better. But the pace started slow down. Luckily still on my target. Deep inside my heart I wish that I could finish 4:15:00 but my cramp was on again :|.

But finished faster than my target was really shocked me. I was about to cry since I can believe that I made it. The sacrifice, sweat, tears and everything already paid off when I entered the finish line. You maybe never understand the joy of it but I wont stop after this. 

The time probably not as good as the athletic athlete. Well once again as an avid runner who just took a deep consideration in running this finished time showed everything. And I can do more better than this if I want and determined.

Funny thing was when my mom asked me about the race. She asked "did I win?" And I said "no..." She cheered me and said "it is ok.. Keep the spirit on" sooo that's mean an approval for still  running? :D

Xxx

Ello