Back in July, I took a month-long gap break after i left my previous firm before starting my new job. It wasn’t a big decision for me, i had always longed to do it, and the opportunity came along. I didn’t have any vacation trips planned because my daughter’s exams were coming. In my mind, i had a short list of things i wanted to do in the 31 days. Or at least try to do. Like train for my 10K run, read a lot of books, watch all those movies on my HDD, spend time with my family, go to the park with them and play badminton, do my…

At the start of the year i signed up on the challenge to run and complete in a 10km race. Now, I know that for most people, 10km is a pretty easy race, but this is coming from a guy that back in Primary 5 had to walk to finish a 800m heats in school. For the past 5 years or so, I’ve been running a lot in the gym, doing about 3 to 4km on the treadmill. Later I started running on the road in the evenings. Only these past few months I’ve intensified the training, running about 6-9km three or four times a week. Anyway, i went with…