We spend a significant and unimaginable amount of our time and lives waiting in queues and for others. Waiting can be described as longing, anticipation, patience, whiling away the time, killing time and awaiting. In some cultures, waiting for your clients is an expectation and you accept that it is conventional and traditional. Waiting might also be a part of the ritual of business concourse, for we justify it with the phrase ‘it is well worth the wait’. Indeed, all good things come to those who wait.
Outside of work, I have enjoyed a full month of racing, researching and reading. I had raced in the adidas King of the Road (KOTR) 10-miler (16.8K) Run, Singapore Bay Run (21K), 2XU Mega-Tri (long course) and Yellow Ribbon Prison Run (YRPR). I earned personal bests in the first two, and a narrow miss at the third installment of the 10K Competitive YRPR yesterday. The official results showed me in 44th position with time of 44:44. What are the odds of that? Coincidence - I think, not. I also assessed my triathlon fitness at last week’s Mega-Tri and am clear where I stand, and have useful data and discoveries to apply to my twelfth Ironman race in New Zealand in March next year.
Singapore Blade Runner - he ran mano a mano with the rest of the competitive 10K field. A prominent face, next to Adam One-Armed Runner in the running community he was a Cheerleader.
Sometimes, waiting can be too time-consuming and we plunge ourselves into impatience. We hurry things up, as well of others. We impose our timelines upon others so that they may proceed with haste and a sense of urgency. We rush, expedite and accelerate others so that we can change gears and attain higher efficiency. Invariably, we risk making mistakes and jump to conclusion for we fail to attain full comprehension. Be mindful that you do not do it often.
With Alvin Ho & Derek Lau (back on home-leave and this race) minutes before the official flag-off.
I will be signing up for Boston Marathon 2012 in a few hours’ time, and hopefully, I will receive good news in a weeks’ time. The new, multi-tier, system of registration does make it fair for faster runners to qualify as priority. It just makes sense, and encourages better attempts at BQs in the future. At 10.00pm Singapore time (Boston, Monday 10.00am) I will register with a few of my buddies including Melvin How, Andrew Leong and Vincent Yang. We will have till 25 September to register, and we will know our results by 28 September. The only peeve that BQs have is that some of these qualifying times were set on more challenging courses and climates. Unfortunately, there is yet to be a complex system of measuring handicaps. Well, first things first for we will assess if the new multi-tier, performance-based, meritocratic approach works better than the frenetic, free-for-all, online applications in the past.
Photo-credits: Run Events, Sky Ronaldo (Singapore Mad Runner), Tey Eng Tiong
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