Now that we have completed the longest run before the tapering prior to the KL Marathon, I have come to discover the apparent similarities between praying and training for a marathon.
In the zest to be in the elite group of the 1% of human population who have completed a marathon, the wannabes obtain obtain advice from the achievers who go out of their way to give their 2 cents' worth of views on how training for marathon should be done. These gurus have come up training programmes, training manuals, multiples gadgets to aid and enhance training and performances. Gadgets in the form of GPS installed watches fully equipped with facilities to monitor your heart rate, pace, speed, location which will help you to your way back just in you are lost! Not to forget the various performance enhancing power gels, bars, hydration salts and even cramp busting tablets. Sometimes you wonder how much you need all of the above. The compression garments were initially made to be worn during the recovery phase of training to prevent soreness. Later, people started wearing it during training and now the gurus are even advising runners to wear it before a run! Now, you start to wonder whether there is a business element is attached to this advice! (to get more gears sold)
We, the novice, are left wondering which to follow with the flurry of information to choose from,hoping against hope that the path of success would be laid open for us to savour.
Just like everybody from the group of the learned on matters of divinity would tell us this and that so as ensure our path of success (nirvana) of our soul. We, the helpless souls, follow aimlessly without questioning their instruction in the hope that we can find peace on earth and have the coping mechanism to withstand the nudges of daily life.
At the end of the day as long as the mission is accomplished, everybody is happy! Till then, we try!
We, the novice, are left wondering which to follow with the flurry of information to choose from,hoping against hope that the path of success would be laid open for us to savour.
Just like everybody from the group of the learned on matters of divinity would tell us this and that so as ensure our path of success (nirvana) of our soul. We, the helpless souls, follow aimlessly without questioning their instruction in the hope that we can find peace on earth and have the coping mechanism to withstand the nudges of daily life.
At the end of the day as long as the mission is accomplished, everybody is happy! Till then, we try!