charter marathon 2008 was held this morning and, as usually, i took part in the 10km event which is presently my upper limit. it was a unbearably cold day, but there had been tens of thousands of particiants standing by in the victoria park where both the start and end points were located. the people crawled the pathway towards the warm up and start point, while some of them were queuing up outside the toilets. when i finally arrived at the start point, i started hearing the mc giving a lively commentary on the enthusiastic atmosphere built up there.

by the time it was counted to 3, runners were activiated and yelled.