The Terry Fox Run

I realize I have been totally remiss in failing to post about the Terry Fox Run. I mean... I went through all that trouble and it took up a whole Sunday morning last month, so I may as well make a note of it for future reference.

The run was on Sept. 18th... it was raining pretty heavily when I woke up and by the time I actually got to Palawan Beach at Sentosa it had only barely let up. For some reason they cancelled the 8km run, so I had no choice but to run the 4km one twice. It ended up ok but it was really crowded... by the time I had looped back to the starting point there were still lots of people that hadn't started. Must have been almost 6,000 people there. It was a bit difficult to run through the crowds but I managed. ^_^

Actually I probably didn't run 8km since I finished in just over 30 minutes. That's more like 5-6km so I think they cheated on the distances. Hmph. So much for an intensive training exercise.

I got back home and had some dessert:

Pound cake and grapes drizzled with apple pie ice-cream. Mmmm.

That evening I went down to Josephine's place for her farewell party. Her Thai community is really hospitable and friendly... didn't really know who to thank after the party since everyone had been so nice. Anyway it was really hard to get home afterwards - took almost 2 hours. Spent forever trying to hail a cab (really ulu place ahha - hidden next to ECP) before hopping on a bus and then getting off to try and hail a cab somewhere else. Then dropped off at Farrer Road on the way to Yee Ling's place and got on a bus back home. Sigh.

Went to the army market at Beach Rd today to get some extra stuff. I get the feeling I'm over-preparing, but this is sort of what happens when you're stuck at home with nothing to do.