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Woke up at 4am for breakfast but there was a stupid morning call at 3.30am. Breakfast ate some rice, nothing much. was really excited but not nervous. Its so exciting. haha

5am took the bus to the race start at the Indonesian Monument which is a huge park actually. thousands of people go there on the weekends and it was reallly packed. everyone was playing badminton everywhere and there were loads of kids flying small kites.

My sister was obviously very nervous and was very fidgety and kept wanting to warm up early. but seriously there is no need to. Just be relaxed and look around the atmosphere is great!! The warm up pics taken by coach pandian sucks! haha.

Race start was 6.30am sharp. really wide starting line. very very spacious and nice. Its like running a major marathon championship. Haha.

When the horn started, I consciously held myself back to try to do a even or negative split. I immediately followed the top kenyan women and settled into rthymn. after 3km, I covered some gaps with some indonesian boys. The keyan lady followed and in so doing, dropped all the other elite women athletes. haha. Me and the kenyan lady went on the the turning point at a comfortable pace. at the 6km mark, i felt that the kenyan was too relaxed already la. i think cus she win liao she dun want to push. cus for them they just want the money. so i went on and increased the pace as I still felt pretty comfortable. I caught some indonesian national athletes and could see the poland guy in front about 100m. About 2 km to go, i upped my pace one notch to about my usual 5km pace and finished strongly. It was a good negative split race and really really enjoyable!! Happy with the timing man. Timing was 33.17. My sister also did a great time and a personal best of 40.38. woohoo.

After the race, we mingled in the athletes tent and had a long long talk with Lee Troop, Australia’s top marathoner who has been to the last 3 olympics and is planning to go for his final one in London. He is 36 this year. and he runs 250km a week. one crazy dude. we got many tips from him. hehehehe. top secret. Such a nice guy man. and he got iphone. dman high tech one. Oh. also found out that Johan Jauhari won the indonesian nationals with a time of 30.48 mymy. crazy man. he is damn good!!

We had to wait a long time for the winners to pass out their urine for the doping test. Thus, we reached back hotel at like 11am. Took a quick shower and me and my sister went to the high class mall next door for lunch at Cafe Cartel. The expenditure there, allowed us 3 tickets for the long slide from 7 storey to 1st storey!! We decided to have a go. so we had to go to the 7 storey, deposit bags, put on helmet, knee guards and slide down the slide. it was very very fast and scary man!!! wah lau eh. We decided to give the last ticket to coach pandian who always seem very sleepy and this will definitely wake him up. tml he will go try it.

After that, went back to hotel and rest and slept a little till dinner. After dinner, me and my sister went with Devi to the high class shopping malls around here. Not that we are high class. haha. but she say these malls are for high class ppl thats why when entering the mall, must go through security checks. haha. Didnt buy anything man. haha.

Then, went back to sleep. Oh. My roomie Mr Bunting had to sepcial tour organised by United Nations Indonesia around jakarta. since he doesnt understand much english, i still dunno where he went. haha.