i was running in the park near my house with my mother this evening when i was reminded of a funny incident which happened when i was in p5.

it was the week which would conclude with my first ever 1.6km on friday. having never ran 1.6km before ( i ponned the p4 one, saying i got a cough, after receiving inspiration from a certain hannah yeo. in the end on the report slip they put my time as 13.53 for 1.6, an educated guess based on my results from the other stations =_=), i resolved to practice for a week, before actually running it. i ran 4 rounds of the neighbourhood park track, running 8.59, 8.56 and 8.57 for monday, tuesday and wednesday respectively. to get an A for 1.6 i needed to run 8.55 i think. i remember being quite worried on wednesday. so on thursday, i ran much harder, but in the end still only running 8.53. well, i thought, at least it went under 8.55. as the chinese saying goes, 明天会更好。

so on friday, we went to singapore poly track and run our 1.6km woots. it was abt 3pm i think, and it was very hot. from the start i ran off fast and slowly settled into a more comfortable pace. i remember it was quite fun, as i was lapping a lot of people. eventually out of my class i finished 2nd, with a time of 7.28, behind luwei who ran 7.04 or 7.08. i was quite suprised at my drastic improvement from 8.53 of the day before, and i was convinced it was because this kind of things takes a while to improve and my runs paid off. and i left it at that for 4 years.

it was only this year that i realised the truth. i know this is quite a long time, but i was guilible enough to believe that improvements take a while to see. that was until my mother told me what was happening.you see, my dear readers, a round of the track at the neighbourhood park was not 400m as i thought, but in fact 500m!!! so instead of 4x400m=1600m, i ran 4x500m=2000m!!! when my anagnorisis happened, i felt scammed and cheated of my feelings. i was worried for nothing! worse, i ran extra for nothing. nooooooo!!!!!

on hindsight, this really show how naiive i was. haha that was when i would willingly go down to the track and run. now? i'm dragging myself to run. i'm sick of it. but oh wells, commitment to the sport, as well as commitment to oneself. last time i wasn't a runner, but can run 2000m at 8.53. not bad not bad.