NutriWalk ~ Walkathon / Marathon

One week ago, my mind went crazy... I joined a walkathon. Not only that, the event started at 6am in the morning. I went to sleep at around 4 hours before the event started. I managed to wake up at 5am and rushed to the event. It was like 20 minutes drive from my house.

Early Bird Free Gift
Finally I arrived there and was trapped in the parking for few minutes. I thought I was early but then I saw hundreds or thousands of people already arrived there. Then, I have to queue up to get my early bird gift. The queue was really crazy... It was sooooooooooo long!!! You can roughly see from the first picture.

I thought I won't be able to get it since there were so many people queuing up for it. Surprisingly, the organizer really did a good job. They did an extremely good estimation (or they didn't do at all...XD). Everybody managed to get one gift. The gift is a nice cup in a wooden box. Not long after I got my gift, the MC asked all the participants to do some warm-up before we started the walk. I didn't have enough time to put the gift into my car so I just carried it with me.

When "walk" turned into "run"...
It was really a walkathon when the race just started. However it turned into marathon not long after the MC announced that we will be able to get special medals and something else if we successfully finish as top 75 in the race. Why 75? Because the event was celebrating the 75th anniversary for the products.

7.5 KM nightmare
My goodness...It was like 10 years ago since I participated in a marathon. Anyway... since I'm already in the race, I decided to do my very best to finish the race. For me, running marathon is all about the control on your breathing. It is really easy to say than you do. In the very beginning of the race, I already lost the pace....= = I was out of breath not long after I started the race. I tried everything to sustain my stamina. Unfortunately, not long after I lost the pace of breathing, I started losing my stamina....@_@

Running marathon is completely different from playing basketball. In basketball, my goal is to put the ball into the basket but in marathon, I need to keep running until I reach the destination. Omg... I used all of my energy to keep myself moving forward. My strategy was...WALK and RUN. Brilliant huh? I saw most of the participants were doing the same thing. LOL. I attempted to chase after all the participants who were leading the race. It looked so close to me but yet I still can't reach them. By the time I reached them, they already finished the race. Eventually, I failed to be in the top 75. I spent 1 hour 30 minutes to finish the 7.5km marathon. Not bad right? For a 25 years old fat guy? LOL.

Other Games Started...
The racing was just one of the activity. There were more activities such as tree planting, soccer (try to kick the ball into the holes), face/body painting, lucky draw, etc. I joined the soccer kicking. I missed the two attempts...it was so close! Then, I went for the face/body painting. Oh ya...forget to mention. I skipped my breakfast and went for the run. I was really starving when I was walking around the carnival.

Conclusion
It was quite fun but really tiring... Both of my legs has pained for whole week. I barely walk properly for the past one week. It was a nice experience though.