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There was a season in her life when my female owner was into joining running events.

With her Badminton kakis, she signed up for the Standard Chartered Marathon (10km) twice. They also took part in the Sheares Bridge Run and Army Half Marathon a couple of times. The distance was about 12km or something. And finally, the New Balance Real Run, where they had to run over different terrains, like trail, road and sand. About 10km all up, with the sand being the hardest part of the run. My female owner also had good fun with her friends during such events.

And then, they stopped. Some things are just seasonal.

A couple of years later (might have been 2007?) she found some jogging kakis in her former workplace and they sometimes went to the reservoir to exercise. And four of them, two guys and two gals, decided to sign up for another Sheares Bridge Run. My female owner had all good intentions to turn up for the run despite not training for it. Alas the night before, she stayed out till about 0200hr. Her other female friend was also gallivanting somewhere. Their pride prevented them from pulling out of the event (they were discussing whether they should, at 2am in the morning.. "but cannot lah, if we don't turn up, they will suan us for sure"), so they said that they would give each other a morning call to help wake the other.

My female owner ended up waking up when the other gal called her at 0700hr. She made it in time to meet them for breakfast AFTER the run. Whilst the other gal made it to the event site (she lived nearer to the event) she was too late to run. The guys, haha, took it in their stride and simply got a kick out of teasing them…. For a long time.

Going to Brisbane, my female owner never expected to participate in any more running events, simply because she was out of form and out of sync with Brisbane affairs. However, things have evolved in such a manner that she might be (see her commitment issues creeping in, she hesitates to confirm) participating in a 10km jogging event in a few weeks’ time. Let's see what happens.