Run for hope

.Today, we did something specially meaningful. I had picked up running earlier this year and with the ability to record each run with the help of a GOS-enabled smartphone app, this has become an activity worth sustaining as one aims to run more, in new places, faster pace and longer distances.

Today, spurred on by M who first signed up for this Charity Run with her softball mates, D and I joined her too, D in the 3.5km run and me for the 10-km. I think the last time I ran 10k was half my lifetime ago (at a company sports day), and we ran the length and back of the runway. This time, the 10k was around the beautiful Marina Bay. It's a new route, and ranks up there with my run from the Willard to Lincoln Memorial in Washington, along Halong Bay from Novotel to The Bridge, and between hotels W and Arts in Barcelona. 

The scenic route helped, for I felt 'the wall' around km7, but what really spurred me on was the reason for the run: we all ran for hope, for cancer patients and specifically for our friends A and S who are undergoing treatment presently. May they be cured and may a cure be found.