Cheering me on

Road less taken

Hi there! Welcome back to my blog, where it is the very place you can read my 'mind'. (LAME JOKE ALERT!) 

So, its already Sunday Evening here in Malaysia (exactly 11.33pm) and I'm sitting here in my room with a face mask on enjoying the last moments of freedom for this week. Tomorrow is Monday which means, back to work! Technically, not really work, I'm still doing my internship at an architecture firm and will only continue with my studies in September. I cant freaking wait. Not that there's anything wrong with the company I'm attached with. I just feel trapped from 8-5pm....and well...working life sucks. Its like day in day out the same thing. Its...so....boring. And well, I hope when I graduate, thats not what's gonna happen. hopefully. 

ANYWAYS, the motive for today's blog post, isn't for me to rant on about how boring working life is, cause I'm pretty sure you guys thats reading can relate to me on that. No, today's post shall be a happy one because thats what we're all doing our best to achieve. HAPPINESS.

Right... I think that pretty much got way off topic from what I initially had in mind. Today I want to share with you, my fellow reader, about my marathon training today. 

As you all know, (and if you don't, I'm gonna explain), I am currently preparing for MY VERY FIRST 10KM MARATHON ! and like I said, its my very first, so I'm quite nervous for it. Nervous cause I worry I won't have the stamina & mental strength to complete it. Its officially in another 2 weeks and well, I think I'm doing alright?

Today I ran the longest distance and the fastest in all my training days. I ran 3.4KM in 30minutes. Which is, for a newbie, not bad. Before I went out for a run, there was a storm that hit my area. Not that bad, just the typical tropical country storm my country usually faces. That meant that I wouldn't be able to run outside (no duuuhh..) after about an hour or so, it finally stopped and I was extremely ecstatic since I could finally go out for a run. I went further than usual and to areas I hardly went by. 

The weather was fine, till I reached the final 1km of my run. While I was running, out of no where, it started raining. Since I was still too far from my house I had to just wing it and run in the rain. I was feeling alright. I knew I had to complete my run and that hopefully the rain wouldn't get me sick. I wasn't feeling too bad. But I wasn't feeling wonderful either way. 

As I was running, I passed by a house in my neighbourhood. The owner was outside his house at the time and was locking his gate when he saw me running in the rain. Instead of just looking away and ignoring me like all the other people I pass by, he actually cheered me on! It totally made my day. It just shows how a little bit of kindness, like cheering on a stranger could actually make a difference. It was really nice of him to do that and it proved to me that people are still nice and that we should all try to play nice with each other.

Ok, I'm getting sleepy...tomorrow its back to work and I need to wake up early. Good night dear readers and fellow bloggers,

Till next time,

Xx,

Sarah