The race that did not happened - Adidas King of the Road 2013

Long holidays are over in the blink of an eye!! Why do I feel that it just passes me by without me doing anything T.T!
It's a brand new week yet again! But thank god it's payday to reduce the uper monday blues! :D

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Anyhow, I never thought I would blog so early about this race but well....

It was yesterday - 11 Aug 2013

We collected our race pack the week before the race and was feeling all excited about it as it is going to be our first marathon together, after so long together! Another first! And we had been doing progressive training almost 2-3 times a week so we would be more equipped to the race and lesser possibility of injuring ourselves.

It was pouring yesterday when we left the house at 5.45am in the morning, but we still head down to the starting point thinking that it is just gonna be a delayed race. 

Apparently the rain was still pouring heavily when we reach Esplanade so these were taken while waiting for the rain to subside and updates from the event organiser.

Shortly after, they announced the cancellation of 16.8km category at 7am in the morning. And we were told that we could join the 10km category if we want to. So we thought okay, not too bad since we still get to work our legs! But who knows they cancelled the whole race eventually when the weather did not take a turn for the better after about 30 minutes later Boohoo!! Went on NEA website and realised that there were forecasted thunderstorms islandwide. BEST.

Our spirits were dampened cause it felt like we woke up so early for nothing, and so we went to have breakfast at Delifrance and chilled for a while. We did thought to hit the treadmill but I felt it was all too different and boring doing it and since it was still pouring, we decided to head home!

Despite the race cancellation, we are still gonna receive the medal, but it will be meaningless! So we have decided to prolly head down to Hougang Park Connector someday and do our own 16.8km there! Haha! :D That should at least make the medal more precious despite the change in venue. Hehe.

Now that our first real marathon did not really took place as expected, we are contemplating to go for another one together. And we hope it will materialise soon ;)