The Running Curse
I started joining long distance races only last year and signed on for 3 of them so far: Singapore Bay Run 2009 (21km), Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2009 (42km) & Adidas Sundown Marathon 2010 (21km).
A couple of weeks before Singapore Bay Run last year, I was out with flu for a good 3 weeks and struggled to complete the whole of 21km. I didn’t even go for the Standard Chartered run because of a persistent hacking cough that lasted for 3 months before the race.
The Adidas Sundown Marathon 2010 is just this Saturday and guess what? I have been out injured because of a suspected inflamed tendon in my right foot that has been plaguing me for the last 3 weeks. Did I trigger this injury from training?
Nope!
I got it from chasing down a bloody bus because I wanna get home earlier to run!
Yes. That is my foot and the x-ray scan of it. No. HP Touchsmarts does not do x-ray scans but they sure make a useful backlight to see film like that.
I know that people always have an impression that I am pretty fit and *ahem* I think that is not far from the truth. *cough cough*
But I am and have been quite injury prone throughout my life and while I embark on this long distance running phase of my life, it seems pretty apparent that my injury woes continue to bug me like a persistent STD. (Not that I have one…)
KuKuNehNeh claims that I am cursed from running and told me to stop signing up for races because SOMETHING ALWAYS happens right before the races that displaces me back to square one sometimes even when I was training very hard.
Am I cursed?
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May 26th, 2010 at 5:56 pm
I hope your foot gets better …
What if you don’t join one race, lets see what happens and check if the hypothesis holds true :p
May 30th, 2010 at 12:51 pm
@rinaz: I was actually thinking of joining one more race this Dec and see if the hypothesis holds true. Thanks for the well wishes! My foot sends it’s regards!
May 29th, 2011 at 9:38 pm
[...] race was at Singapore Bay Run (SBR) in Sep 2009 for the 21km run and since then, there was this running curse that plagued me since then. Getting to the starting line of Sundown 2011 proved to be an obstacle [...]