run
After complaing that I have not ran in 2 weeks, I finally got to do it today.There are 101 reasons why I don't run. I don't have the time, its too late after work, its raining, I am dead tired, I have to go out with friends, I just ate too much, etc etc
really.
And I noticed that when I had a boyfriend, i ran more. Simply because I don't have to go out with so many other people. I had almost a social life of nil. I remembered something i read from A.S Byatt -- Love is like a prison where everything around you gets smaller. Something like that. Maybe.
So I did a different route today. I wanted to check out if there was any way i could from my place cross over to Normanton along the AYE but not run on the AYE. I knew from Street Directory.com that there's a loop which goes rather near to it. I was hoping oto find some little foot path that could lead me right to Normanton (this is important because that also means that I can run home from work, without running down South Buena Vista road which i think could kill me).
Ran at Bury Road. What an ominus name! It was already dark, and the road looked deserted. I decided to go ahead since I don know when I'll have the time to run again. Its one of those horror story scenario. Deserted road, quiet, a few houses - colonial style therefore looking very haunted. Street lamps lighting up the way.. I don't know where I am going at all. Further in, it was lke a bat's paradise. quite a couple of them flapping about. And I thought, now we have the dracula effect settling in. Although it all seemed rather daunting, its actually a nice place for a run. Its quiet, theres barely any traffic, therefore my air feels clean. In fact when I look at the map again, its almost at Kent Ridge park. And i thought to myself, how wonderful it'll be if i lived here.... its kinda fun to run about lost. I asked a jogger (the only one i saw) where a particular road leads to, he told me its some roundabout (which i later somehow didn't quite find and so had to turn back maybe i should have just ran on) He was quite cute. =) I ran past some nice houses too. By then it was really dark. I turned back and tried a different road but about 100m in, it all got creepy. Felt like i was running through a forest. Just grass and trees, and some huge drain... street lamps became the white kind which just makes the entire place feels cold too. Scary. I decided that was the end of my adventurous run for the day and turned back to the road I came in by.
Think I ran a lot. Cos some time after that I could no longer feel my feet. My stopwatch says 54min when I stopped at CMPB.
Feeling very good now =)
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posted by eline @ 11:47 PM
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