"No medal for us but just a certificate and quite some energy left, I purpose not to miss this kind of race and again. God willing I will be back next year to do the 21km race." Those were my words in my blog dated 10/27/2008 titled The marathon Experience.
Am so thankful to God that those words came to pass. Yesterday we were at it again, this time I had no butterflies in my tummy like I had the previous year the day to the marathon on the contrary I felt organised. However the only problem was that I was unwell the last week to the marathon and am still nursing myself and as such had slacked in my training the last two weeks to the marathon. All in all I was not ready to let the ill health nor the fact that pms was all over the place hold me back!
Dark and early I rose and by 6.30 we were at the stadium. At about 7.25 the race began. I felt comfortable running all through past to the 10 km and I think up to the 15 km point. At some point it started raining and stopped and even started again even more heavily and I was thinking this is just thee race! Trouble started when I was about 4 km or so to the finish line, I had felt my right knee twinge earlier on and had ignored it but now the pain became more and more intense, like it was a dislocated knee or something. Not that I have dislocated a knee before, but I hope u get my drift. Poor me I thought, I had done so well managed to pass many people along the way but now this, everyone will overtake me!.....quel pitie!
I stopped and walked for a while and getting that knee to run again was the hardest and most painful thing i had to endure, from then on it was run a little bit then walk until I got to the stadium entrance.
I definitely knew that my colleagues who had finished earlier on were at the stadium waiting for the rest of us and they might applaud as I approached the finish line but I wasn’t sure if I could run the last 300 meters with my paining knee (talk of wanting to make a statement ;)). I stood outside for a minute or two trying to compose myself while other runners were trying to encourage me and telling me that I can do it and at long last I entered the stadium limp-running and just as I approached the finish line I heard them cheering me on, it felt nice to be encouraged but ideally I would have loved to finish in style.......that is do the last 100 meters sprint as you wave to the 'fans'. Slowly and with difficulty I ran on and waved at them and nothing felt better than crossing that finish line (with some style too). My assumption is that I did the race in about 2.5 or a bit more hours.
I got a medal, a certificate and had no ounce of energy left like the previous year but loads and loads of self satisfaction.
What next? I pray that God gives me another year to do another marathon even though it feels like my body will never be able to exercise again I know that I will recover and again it’s for a good cause....for someone to be blessed with the ability to see!
Dreams do really come true!
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10/26/2009
10/23/2009
Continue being plus size
This year i have made so many visits to the hospital, i think enough to match up all my life's visit to the hospital. What i am wondering is, does the principle of 'when you smile to the world it smile back' or 'when you give you get many returns back' in that, when you start going to hospital you keep going back and back? Or could it be because there are such handsome doctors where i go? My prayer is that God continues to bless me with good health as it has been in the past.
I will leave out the details as to why i was making the visits. So I finally managed to have them prick at my veins and draw blood a procedure that i have never allowed any doctor or nurse to carry out on me, dont ask how i got by with some things. True to the technicians words it was not as painful as i thought and i thank him 'remotely' for being extremely patient with me throughout the exercise. What he failed to mention is that my arm would ache for the next couple of days, nevertheless i forgive him.
The interpretation of the results is what annoyed me, everything else was ok besides my red blood cells count. Fine fine, i know that i might be a little underweight just a little and i work on that but to hear that my red blood cells count was low and that i might be a little anemic was not good news at all.
With all the healthy living that i do, talk of traditional vegetables and am in, natural this and that finds themselves in my house, i even cook my ugali nowadays with 'incasa amaranth' flour leave alone the fact that the flour is so hard to cook with i cant dare prepare it for a visitor. Gosh, i even cook omenas!
Clearly there is nothing funky with being thin not when the doctor tries to give you some high school lecture on nutrition! Now that the world seems to rotate around the plus sized women and tips for this and that on them, my advice would be, continue being plus size well for as long as your health. Follow all the tips they may have for you other than the weight loosing tips because surely the grass aint as green as you think on this side.
I will leave out the details as to why i was making the visits. So I finally managed to have them prick at my veins and draw blood a procedure that i have never allowed any doctor or nurse to carry out on me, dont ask how i got by with some things. True to the technicians words it was not as painful as i thought and i thank him 'remotely' for being extremely patient with me throughout the exercise. What he failed to mention is that my arm would ache for the next couple of days, nevertheless i forgive him.
The interpretation of the results is what annoyed me, everything else was ok besides my red blood cells count. Fine fine, i know that i might be a little underweight just a little and i work on that but to hear that my red blood cells count was low and that i might be a little anemic was not good news at all.
With all the healthy living that i do, talk of traditional vegetables and am in, natural this and that finds themselves in my house, i even cook my ugali nowadays with 'incasa amaranth' flour leave alone the fact that the flour is so hard to cook with i cant dare prepare it for a visitor. Gosh, i even cook omenas!
Clearly there is nothing funky with being thin not when the doctor tries to give you some high school lecture on nutrition! Now that the world seems to rotate around the plus sized women and tips for this and that on them, my advice would be, continue being plus size well for as long as your health. Follow all the tips they may have for you other than the weight loosing tips because surely the grass aint as green as you think on this side.
9/07/2009
Accountability partners - we all need one
Today kamama made a come back to the running world. I had taken a commercial break courtesy of my hair - yes a woman's life is quite a handful! Leave alone the fact that i think running is pretty tough on the muscles but that is story for another day as in another month i plan to be doing my 21km race marathon.
I quickly agreed to a route that i wasn't familiar with since i love trying new things that's one of the many reason why am not repeating the 10km race category this year. The first few minutes of the run were okay as i was in tandem with my running mate, shoulder to shoulder, neck to neck. Now the return trip was something else.
Beating all odds i managed to propel my body up the hill but as soon as i was done with it i was gone, totally exhausted wondering when will i get to the finishing point. My mate was beginning to give me mileage and in a few seconds she way ahead of me but seeing as i was experiencing difficulties she decided to slow down.
At that point i thought that's not very nice of her, why cant she go on! Its the return trip anyway i will make it back. You See i was in my comfort zone. But seeing as she had slowed her pace down for me i had to up my game, she was the first one among all the runners and now someone had passed her because of me. My only option was to increase my speed and so i ran and ran and caught up with her and together we finished what we had started in an averagely good time.
Had i been on my own i would definitely have taken longer and maybe even walked part of the way back. That's how important an accountability partner is.
Someone who can wait for you to fasten your laces and help you catch up with the rest. Someone who can help you get back on our feet when the road seems too challenging. Someone who can motivate us to the next level as the short 'pleasures' of the comfort zone can really deceive.
Am on a quest to look for more of such.............
I quickly agreed to a route that i wasn't familiar with since i love trying new things that's one of the many reason why am not repeating the 10km race category this year. The first few minutes of the run were okay as i was in tandem with my running mate, shoulder to shoulder, neck to neck. Now the return trip was something else.
Beating all odds i managed to propel my body up the hill but as soon as i was done with it i was gone, totally exhausted wondering when will i get to the finishing point. My mate was beginning to give me mileage and in a few seconds she way ahead of me but seeing as i was experiencing difficulties she decided to slow down.
At that point i thought that's not very nice of her, why cant she go on! Its the return trip anyway i will make it back. You See i was in my comfort zone. But seeing as she had slowed her pace down for me i had to up my game, she was the first one among all the runners and now someone had passed her because of me. My only option was to increase my speed and so i ran and ran and caught up with her and together we finished what we had started in an averagely good time.
Had i been on my own i would definitely have taken longer and maybe even walked part of the way back. That's how important an accountability partner is.
Someone who can wait for you to fasten your laces and help you catch up with the rest. Someone who can help you get back on our feet when the road seems too challenging. Someone who can motivate us to the next level as the short 'pleasures' of the comfort zone can really deceive.
Am on a quest to look for more of such.............
7/22/2009
Pysching up for the greatest race
Am just about to hit the ground for my lunch time run. Its official now i have began training for the marathon.
My plan is to do the 21 km race in about 2 hours, i must say this looks quite ambitious for one who is not keen when it comes to running but nevertheless i have been exercising, swimming has been my kind of thing! But now i have a dream and in front of that dream is an obstacle that i must overcome.
Whats my game plan? at least try and run 3 times a week and constantly increase the mileage as the days go by. Ohh yes and of course eat a lot since i don't wish to loose an ounce of my hard earned kilos.
Time frame about 3 months!
Stick around and i will tell you the results come October and just for the records i don't plan to be one of those who will be waited for hours on end to reach the finish line!
......2 hours later - if that was anything to go by, the kiddies race would be ideal :). Ave got work to do
My plan is to do the 21 km race in about 2 hours, i must say this looks quite ambitious for one who is not keen when it comes to running but nevertheless i have been exercising, swimming has been my kind of thing! But now i have a dream and in front of that dream is an obstacle that i must overcome.
Whats my game plan? at least try and run 3 times a week and constantly increase the mileage as the days go by. Ohh yes and of course eat a lot since i don't wish to loose an ounce of my hard earned kilos.
Time frame about 3 months!
Stick around and i will tell you the results come October and just for the records i don't plan to be one of those who will be waited for hours on end to reach the finish line!
......2 hours later - if that was anything to go by, the kiddies race would be ideal :). Ave got work to do
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