Superhuman

Spent 25bucks on running tights today.. Went shopping with Jon Lai for them.. and came across some that cost like 80 bucks- with some bio-acceleration technology.. I don't even know what it means! but just that it cost 80 bucks and that its very expensive- I'm not deserving of such a pair because I'm amateurish.. untill I can prove my worth... But 25 bucks really paid off.. it stuck to me like 2nd skin and even tho it trapped quite a fair bit of heat, but it protected me from abrasion.. I think thats a very good trade off.. but it felt really good.

In total I clocked 15km today- 5 in the morn due to time constraint and 10 in the evening. It felt good.. the adrenaline just running thru my veins.. someone said to me yesterday about breathing during the run- gotta train till my breathing on the run is no different from my breathing when I sleep- a natural and controlled instinct. I envisage it to be so too- I wouldn't want to be huffing and puffing like a tub of lard near the finish line.. Anyway it was a good day.. I feel delightfully tired... tho with a tinge of worry if my training would bring more harm than good- I don't want to be wearing out my joints too- especially with my weight.

I read an article from New Scientist. It was titled: "SUPERHUMAN" and I found that indeed- some people are just natural born athletes because of mutant genes giving them "mutant powers"..

-New Scientist 28 July 2007-

"Mutant Powers" from gene variants and mutations:

ACTN3- Alpha Actinin 3 gene is implicated in fast muscle fibre contraction- power athletes and sprinters are 3 times as likely to have this gene as compared to other types of athletes.

ACE- Angiotensin Converting Enzyme. The ACE-2 gene variant appears to predominate in endurance athletes and mountaineers while the ACE-DD version is found primarily in sprint athletes.

PPAR-delta- Peroxisome Proliferator Activated Receptor (Delta). This gene engineered in mice showed that they grew more slow twitch muscle fibres designed for endurance- and they could run 2x as far as normal mice.

CK-MM- Creatine Kinase (muscle isoform). Different versions of this gene can potentially affect an individual's ability at converting oxygen into energy.

Myostatin- Myostatin gene mutation prevents functional myostatin from being produced. Myostatin inhibits muscle growth- and thus a mutation in the gene allows extremely large muscles.

So there you have it.. sorry Jason.. I know its nerdy but I think that definitely I need to use evidence to back up what I say.. I thought to myself- how can it be? that such mutations can serendipitously give a person an unfair advantage over others? And as I was running in front of the mirror.. I just felt it questioning myself- am I such a person? Do I have such a power? how do I know how far I can go? how do I know how much I can take? Whilst impossible is nothing, how can you achieve the impossible without breaking apart?

I think another thing I can draw from this article is probably the obvious- the world is created to be fair- just that some are more fair than others.. you can be born with innate powers and abilities.. that others just don't have.

But perhaps.. with that- that would give me more meaning to run on- to truly put myself into a challenge and uncover any true potentials- and if not, learn something new from this experience.

Well I'll end off this poorly constructed blog blabbering with the olympic creed- Citius, Altius, Fortius- which means "Faster, Higher, Stronger"- I may not be an athlete but I'll keep this creed in my heart everyday when I run.. As for the rest of you reading this entry- I do suggest drawing your own conclusions about the information that I presented- just in a deeper sense of things :)