T Minus - 24 hours

Just some last minute updates:

Jimmy has left for his hometown, Banting for the night. He has passed me his Registration Confirmation Slip, which I will use to collect our Race Pack tomorrow morning at Dataran Merdeka. I heard that there was a mad rush for the Race Pack collection on Friday. Will be going there much earlier, at about 10am, to queue up. And because of this, we gotta postpone our plans to visit SHELTER 2 and SHELTER 3 to the following weekend. I have collected some materials to pass to them (toys and clothes). Hopefully, our schedule will be more permitting next weekend.

Back to running, we have both officially started tapering down. No more running till Marathon Day. In total, we did about 20KM each this week while emphasising on another important aspect for the marathon - carbo loading! Finally, we can eat without feeling guilty...

Jimmy has gotten free supply of Power Bar Gel to be used on Marathon Day. As for Saturday night, Jimmy will be bunking over at my place before making a move to Dataran Merdeka on Sunday morning, 4am. Original plan was for us to hit the decks by 8pm Saturday night, but we're opting to sleep at 10pm instead. Dinner plans :).

On a sadder note, Jackie - my close friend and mentor who is now studying in the University of Queensland injured his Achilles tendon about a week ago. He will be taking part in the Full Marathon event for the 2009 Gold Coast Airport Marathon in Brisbane, Australia in exactly one week's time. His injury looks quite bad but he has vowed to complete the marathon, by all means possible. Jackie is running for charity as well - he and his university colleagues (about 101 of them) are running in the Full Marathon category to raise awareness on cancer. They too have raised up to AUD9000 as part of their charity event. Let's all pray that he recovers soon enough and completes the marathon well. Get well soon, Jack.

Urgh, having problems sleeping right now. Nerves.

That's about all for now.

Cheers,
ray mun