Challenging The Singapore Marathon
I have been wanting to take part in a full marathon since 2003-2004 and if I wrote it on a piece of paper as a thing-to-do, the paper will probably be yellow with the faded words barely recognizable.
In order to motivate myself, I gathered people over at plurk to find people who will be crazy enough to train for the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2009. Besides the advantage of staying fit while training for such a gruelling run, I decided that the group should adopt a charity as well to give a greater cause. So the group “FortyTwoPointOneNineFive” was formed.
“We are a group of people who wants to complete a full marathon (42.195 km) at least once in our lives. Instead of procrastinating like we have always been doing, we decided to form a running group to challenge the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2009!
We will most likely have a group effort to raise funds for charity as well to make this even more meaningful. Stayed tuned for more info!
Join us as we push each other to train for the gruelling run!”
Since most of us are very active online, I think it will be quite interesting to find ways to raise money and awareness for the adopted charity. If you are interested in joining us to train for the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2009, do join us on facebook and also on our group at mapmyrun.com (A great way to log your runs and monitor your progress!) Since we live all over the island, we are using mapmyrun to log and monitor each other and will only meet for runs bi-weekly or monthly.
As you can see, we haven't really started and I am 2nd on the list with only 2.36km clocked. WAHAHAHAHA!
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January 2nd, 2009 at 5:03 pm
[...] at all, but I realized that I might have unknowingly promised to do certain stuffs in 2009 like training for a full marathon that will happen in December; so I might as well make some attainable new year’s resolutions [...]
March 31st, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Wow! well done! I hope I get to your stage one day too. Right now, i’m sloooowly getting there…last year was 5k->6k->10K
This year wld proli be 5.6k->15K->10K->21K
2010 – 42.195???
All the best!!
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April 5th, 2009 at 11:54 pm
@Eu-Jzin> Thanks and Good luck to you as well!
May 4th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
[...] year ahead and minimum distractions from my training days. To my team of first-timers at FortyTwoPointOneNineFive, I hope you guys are starting your training [...]