marathon 'post-mortem'
Thursday, December 11, 2008
I remembered to ask a friend who ran the full marathon how he did, and it jogged my memory to check out the detailed statistics of my run on the website.
I had five persons to check out:
My Dad
Amir, an mjc guy who went for the Dubai GIP and also went for the marathon
[his previous official run was a 10k o.0]
Myself
Shaun Djie
[My tennis mate who went for the half marathon too, but left the day after for Tasmania, meaning I couldnt ask him for his timing. His rare surname yielded only one result. (him, la.)]
Mr Tan Cher Chong
I mentioned meeting him at the war memorial after the run, and at first couldnt find his name
[His surname is Tan after all, and it yielded too many results that I couldn't filter. I had to go to the Damai website and reaffirm how his name was spelt.]
Incidentally, before I continue, the Damai website is revamped and features students from our cohort on its homepage marquee.
Anyway, I found out that my dad beat Amir by close to half an hour (2k places behind), Mr Tan beat me by one and a half minutes, (183 postions behind him) but I beat my tennis mate by 10 minutes (900 places behind)
So. I finished in a time of 2:08:37, but the best runner beat my time by a whole hour. I lost the page though, so I don't know who it is. But an African? Most definitely.
Needless to say, he won it. I think the essay topic sounds like some primary school topic la. I didn't get it because apparently my dad didn't write my email address in the registration. But that's okay. I don't think I would have tried. Don't you think the posing grey-haired guy in front of him makes the picture look all the more ironic? LOL
On another note, there were't any pictures of Mr. Tan at all.
posted by joseph at 9:42 AM
Thursday, December 11, 2008
(Links are in grey on this blog)
I remembered to ask a friend who ran the full marathon how he did, and it jogged my memory to check out the detailed statistics of my run on the website.
I had five persons to check out:
My Dad
Amir, an mjc guy who went for the Dubai GIP and also went for the marathon
[his previous official run was a 10k o.0]
Myself
Shaun Djie
[My tennis mate who went for the half marathon too, but left the day after for Tasmania, meaning I couldnt ask him for his timing. His rare surname yielded only one result. (him, la.)]
Mr Tan Cher Chong
I mentioned meeting him at the war memorial after the run, and at first couldnt find his name
[His surname is Tan after all, and it yielded too many results that I couldn't filter. I had to go to the Damai website and reaffirm how his name was spelt.]
Incidentally, before I continue, the Damai website is revamped and features students from our cohort on its homepage marquee.
Anyway, I found out that my dad beat Amir by close to half an hour (2k places behind), Mr Tan beat me by one and a half minutes, (183 postions behind him) but I beat my tennis mate by 10 minutes (900 places behind)
So. I finished in a time of 2:08:37, but the best runner beat my time by a whole hour. I lost the page though, so I don't know who it is. But an African? Most definitely.
Venue: City Hall, close to the finishing line.
Venue: (both mine and Shaun's) behind floating platform.
I think my dad's one is damn nice la. He had 4 pictures to choose from, while I had 2. Mine definitely isn't as epic as my dad's, but hey, it's better than Shaun's! :P He's wearing this adidas yellow gear that he won in a competition hosted by Standard Chartered too, which required him to write an essay on the most inspiring event that happened to him.
Needless to say, he won it. I think the essay topic sounds like some primary school topic la. I didn't get it because apparently my dad didn't write my email address in the registration. But that's okay. I don't think I would have tried. Don't you think the posing grey-haired guy in front of him makes the picture look all the more ironic? LOL
On another note, there were't any pictures of Mr. Tan at all.
posted by joseph at 9:42 AM