Happy Mothers day :) MDC event

Happy Mother's day!
blessing mother all over the world are healthy and happy :) .

A few weeks ago I'm still thinking on what should I do and how should I celebrate on this special day without celebrating with my mum, since I'm not working on sunday and since I do not want to spend my whole time playing computer, watching television (that is soo boring) on this...special day , I decided to participate in a community event, which is the mother's day classic (MDC). Initially I'd thought of volunteering, however, it would be waste for not using the mi-coach pacer that I've won a week ago, and besides, to participate in any kind of event is more fun than volunteering..so I ended up taking the 4km run race,

The brooke's shirt that I'm wearing on that day, ps: made by Malaysia XD

My race number

Yesterday, hundreds and thousands of people participate in the Melbourne Mother's Day event which located at the alexandra garden.
I've gotta say, that is one of the biggest and most beautiful garden I've ever seen. It was.. WOW!
Considered I've been living here for more than 2 years, it's a pity that I don't even know it's name until now=-=

Alexandra garden, beaauutiful :]

It was freezingly cold in the morning, I woke up at 6am and arrived at the garden at 7.30 am, but before even stepping through the garden, I could see lots of participants wearing pinkish shirts around the city heading towards the direction where the MDC event takes place... words can't describe the atmosphere on that day, the garden was especially flooded with a sea of pink, truly magnificant.
:( wish my mum was there so she could join and run with me...
so why can't malaysia organise a big event like this?


Anyway, I missed out most of the warm up aerobic exercise , that's because I only wore a short pants and a hoodie to this event, I was too cold that I have to go for a pee, twice! before the race even started. The toilet though...were like, hundreds of them! Gosh it was about 500 metres long in one of the area!

portable toilets

moaaaar portable toilets!!!

Within 10 minutes prior to the race, I left my bag in the cloak room and this time I start to shiver.. think about it , a malaysian, used to hot weather..
wearing a short sleeved shirt with a short pants under the weather of 8 degree Celsius? oh well.. it's just a matter of minutes, soon I'll feel warm once the race is over.
As the race starts, everyone rushes to the starting point and start running, I find it interesting that some of the runners, mainly mums in the race were pushing prams along the route. Now that's the spirit of Mum :D . While I don't expect much of myself because I only started to trained last week with the help of micoach, my target was a 2km continuous run and I didn't expect to finish the race in half an hour.
but surprise suprise, I actually finished the 4km race without a single stop or walk, my time was 26minutes and 24 seconds,
lets be honest, I was preparing to give up and start walking after reaching the 2km mark, but my brain keep saying: You can do it! You can do it!! my determination suddenly increases.
which is really really really really really really rare.
The minute I stepped on the final point,
I'm relieved, I feel great and you know what? I'm happier and I wouldn't be soo happy if I gave up in the middle of the race.
all in all, I've gotta say for the first time in my life, I'm actually feel proud of myself, lol :]

Cheerleaders came to cheer up the runners

After the race, I went to the showbag area to collect my showbag, then I went for a massage, it's free anyway, so why not? :D
kekeke..

Showbag area

nuo~

I request for a shoulder massage since I hurt my shoulder during the race, and the physiotherapy told me that my shoulder is sooooOOO tight, she suggest me to go for a massage clinic.
well, a 1 hour massage cost more than $80, so let me think about it.

After the massaging, I went to the cloak room to collect my bag and started to wondered around, souveniers, foods, raise funds, etcetc.. later I decided join the pink waivers to go for another 4km walk, just because I'm too bored.

Pink waivers walk starts

thousands of them participate in the walk

You've made it!!

Eventually, the rain started to fall when I reach the final point, the event ends at 12pm.

Parents together with their children were having fun with the game


the tribute wall

Overall, it was fun! a great experience! first time in my life I actually participate in the so call "marathon" race, even though it was just a 4km run, but I think I've fall in love with it after the event (stares at my father)...
how strange, years ago I often refused to go for a jog with my parents.. and now..
I was thinking of doing more, like participate in the 10km or even half marathon race in the upcoming event.

Did I just starting to love the things that I used to hate ?