I completed my 12th marathon on 4 December 2016, Sunday. This year, the race started half an hour earlier at 4.30am at the same start point at Orchard Road. I reached the event start point early and was in the holding pen by 4 am. I was feeling relax and ready to go, but I did not have high hope as I knew my training was really inadequate. I started about 7 minutes after the elite runners were off. As usual it was a slow first few kilometres, in fact I completed the first 10 km in about 1 hour 3 minutes plus. No problem at all for the early part of the race. Reached half way point in 2 hours 20 minutes 12 Seconds. My poor fitness began to be obvious, I started to feel tired and pace dropped drastically after the half way point. The body started to feel so weak and I kept having the urge to walk instead of running. It was a dreadful feeling, I have to struggle to keep moving at a very slow pace. My pace dropped from 7 plus minutes to 9 minutes to even 11 minutes plus per km around