Signed up for marathon!

After so many years of seeing people participating in marathon, I finally signed up for the stanchart marathon this december. It will be a vigorous 42km run in from downtown to the eastern part of singapore. Well 42km sounds like alot! But I believe I have the ability to complete this grueling race. As the saying goes, AIM TO COMPLETE NOT COMPETE. The race will start at 6am and will take between 2 to 6 hours to complete.
The cost of signing up....$52 including a very nice goodie bag which has to be collected the weekend before. The date is 6 dec. From now till 6 dec, I will document my training regime here and track my progress. I aim to run at least twice a week and build up to at least a 21km run before the actual day itself.

A standard training regime to build up to 42km should be 10km x 4, 15 km x 4, 21km x 1 before the marathon. It is important that I watch my diet and instill discipline so I will complete the race with honor. As this is my first race, I am targeting to complete it below 6 hours, that is 7km/hour. Seems little isnt it, but when the race drags towards the end, runners will feel the heat and slow down by more than half.

I look forward to the race as I prepare myself for it and this will be first of many marathons I will take part around the world and part of things to push myself to the limit. I encourage everyone out there to try out new things because life is short and we wont know what will happen next. It is best that we do what we can presently than dream about the future.