Marathon Update

Well, it's T-minus 52 days until my first marathon. If you haven't heard - I'm doing a marathon. That's 42 kms or running and mind over legs thinking. To read more about why I decided on running the marathon you can click here.

The marathon is the annual Xiamen International Marathon, on January 2nd of next year. That means no partying for me to ring in the new year. It does mean starting the year off with a HUGE personal achievement. I'd take that over a hangover - sure.

The Xiamen marathon will run on Xiamen Island as you can see from the image above. 50,000 Participants for this year's marathon. That's a lot of people.

My feelings leading up the marathon include but are not limited to:

- Excitement! Yah! I can do this!
- Fear. Uh oh... what have I gotten myself into? Can I do this?!
- Confidence. Shut up fear! Yes you can do this!
- Rationality. Confidence, why don't you shut up... it's 42 bloody kilometres.
- Faith. Rationality, we don't need you. We believe!

A few random thoughts I've had about the whole event:

- Will the looker oners give me things to eat/drink. That'd be cool.
- Hahaha. Oh Geoffrey. Re: Geoffrey in the Fresh Prince episode where he took a taxi to the finish line. You can relive that one here. For an unrelated  Geoffrey's house party vid you can click here.
- I'm wondering if at some point when I'm staggered over people will take pictures of me and I'll end up on somebody's QQ space (The Chinese equivalent of Myspace)
- What to scream when I cross the finish line.
- How to refine my pace so I can last the entire event.
- Where to buy ice for my knees after long warmup runs.
- Why do Chinese people love (read: LOVE) to use their brights so much in suburban areas?! (I always get blinded when running in the evening)

Comments? Questions? Advice? Smiley faces? Please leave them all below!

Ou.yang.