The Samsung Melbourne Marathon was held on the 12th October 2008. Marc, Richard, Elisa, Yasmeen, Sue Ann, Isabella and I joined as a group just for the pure fun of it.

I’ve attempted longer runs before.. with the furthers being a 11km stretch from Dataran Merdeka through the Parliament and back to Dataran.

I didn’t quite fancy the run and really did it only for the t-shirt. Was lazy and short of cash. Came the day, it regret my decision.. wished I signed up for the longer 11km run. The t-shirt (side picture) is the official Team Monash t-shirt in yellow to represent Monash’s golden jubilee.

It wasn’t that great a run for me cause I was always held back by the crowds. Trying to run and stop.. run and stop.. is way tiring than running all the way. The result was stiff muscles and difficulty going all the way. Therefore.. I didn’t place very well.

It was pretty cool running in the Melbourne Cricket Grounds aka MCG. It was one of those opportunities few would get while in Australia. Too bad there’s no picture for me to show.

Anyway, here are the placings for the day for the people I know of. I heard Adam, the new president for the Berwick Internation Student’s Association placed around 300. Wow.

Quite degarding loosing out to “some” of them. But it’s ok… ego dented. To be repaired or reclaimed another day.

Regardless, we all got ”medals” for completing the marathon. Despite the ego dent, I really enjoyed the day hanging out with my cellies and friends.

Got ourselves some good breakfast to make up the fat we lost at DeGraves Lane.

Till the next run.