Golden Moments! Gold Coast Marathon 2019...my best effort to date.
Gold Coast 2019 july 10, 2019 by francis yeng Lest I forget HIs Mercy and Grace. #GCAM19 was probably my 5th or 6th Gold Coast Marathon. Lost count after a while. I think I skipped a year or two since 2012 for some reasons. Nevertheless, weather-wise, this one has got to be the least conducive of all compared to previous years. We came into it with threats of high wind and showers. Lo and behold, the threat finally materialized 10 minutes before the race started. As 6 thousand odd runners gathered at the FM starting pens, it poured. Talk about a “shower party”. Personally, this GC experience was also my fiercest struggle. Looming in the background was an injury sustained 5 weeks earlier that was just gnawing away at my confidence. The nagging pain whenever I ran just reduced me to a fretful wreck. Did all I could with physio and treatment but it was just not budging. To top that off, I was beginning to doubt my training. 80/20 and high mileage laid a good foundation, ...