Challenge

A boy who loves animals, including reptiles comes upon a dense bush. Looking closely at the branch, he spots a camouflaged iguana posing stiffly without moving a muscle. Camouflage fail. He has seen iguanas before but to actually catch one, that he has never done before. Somehow, that thought comes to his mind, and he challenges himself to catch the browny lizardy iguana. After some running and jumping and catching and fleeing attempts by both parties, the boy emerges as the victor, holding the iguana by its tail.


-An original short story-


Challenge yourself. Challenges are the things that make our lives so fun and exciting. So our lives would not be so mundane lah. We all need challenges, never mind our ages or gender. In the original short story above, we can see how accepting a challenge can enable the boy to accomplish something that he never thought of before.


Challenge yourself. The challenge could be anything. It could be trying to have a blog of your own if you haven’t got one. It could be trying to catch an iguana or snake (I’ll pray for you). It could be as simple as exercising everyday or at least 3 times a week. If that’s not simple enough, how about trying to do nothing for a whole day. Ha! I bet that’s the toughest challenge of all.


Challenge yourself. Why am I repeating this? I wonder. Maybe I’m attempting to make it more poetic. Okay challenge myself. It could be trying to run a half marathon, which is my case. It is a challenge that I have to face before heading to the US soon. Half marathon is a serious business. Till now, I still cannot imagine myself running that far. But what to do, I just take it as a challenge lah. There’s no turning back now.


21km is a very long distance. Before this, I only ran 5km, 7km and 8. something km, lilliputian when compared to the body boggling 21km. Pray for me.


The name of the run is called the Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2011, a big event that would be held at Dataran Merdeka or Data-run as I would call it (what was famous for the Merdeka history is now the favorite place for running events) on June 26. There are 61 days left, and I have to start preparing myself for this big challenge.


Do check out the Marathon yourself at www.kl-marathon.com

There are many categories of runs, like 10km and 5km as well if I’m not mistaken. So do go challenge yourself and other people too.
This is my challenge, what’s yours?