After taking a break from running for the better part of the 1.5 months post Beijing Marathon, my friend Oliver and I decided last minute to do the Shanghai Half Marathon (for the hell of it). And so we went out for the 21km run on this clear and very cool day in Shanghai. Perhaps because of the lack of training (or maybe it was the heavy meal I ate the night before), I got a nasty side cramp at about the 14km mark and had to push through it almost to the end. Nevertheless, I still managed to break 1 hour and 50 minutes (barely). Oliver was in better form and finished about four minutes earlier. The greatest highlights of the race were starting on The Bund (with 26,000 others) and running over the Nanpu Bridge. Perhaps I’ll do the full marathon next year.
