I was giving a piece of wrong information to many people since I was an undergraduate student until one of my postgraduate study days when Dr. Woon Wei Lee let me know that a Marathon is 42 KM run. He corrected my speech when I introduced myself with my medal achievements in many marathons. He told me that I ran many half-marathons not a marathon yet in year 2005.
From that moment, I worked extremely hard so that I will walk my talk or my speech to run many marathons because I had been telling people that I ran many marathons since year 1998 until year 2005. In year 2009, I managed to complete a 42 KM marathon in Kuala Lumpur. I did not manage to complete the 42KM ran within 6 hours. Thus, I joined a 42 KM marathon run again in year 2010. In order to complete within 6 hours, I used all my energy to make it happened. Eventually, I managed to complete a 42KM marathon within 6 hours in year 2010.
This was my most angry moment ever in my life! I threw away my medal which I got it from Standard Chartered Kuala Lumpur Marathon 2010 to release my angry moment because I got the medal under the most suffering mode ever in my life in order for me to walk my talk that I ran many marathons. 2 marathons are plural and it means many marathons to me. I had completed my talk and until now I am not well-trained to run more marathons yet.
Something for you! Half-marathon is 24 KM run. Marathon or full-marathon is 42 KM run. There are differences. I am saying that I am doing well in long-distance running.
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