The Infinite World

This year the organiser Split the half an full maratthon into 2 different night, I did the half marathon early this morning. The race started promptly at 11.30 pm and I manage to get into the start pen for the under 2 hours runners. I had mixed feelings as I did not put in the effort to train properly. Started really smoothly, there was not much of any bottleneck as I was in the faster  batch. I was feeling really apprehensive, keep wanting to go faster but hold myself back to run at my own pace. I would consider this as a good race as there were many better runners than me who serve as pacer for me. They kind of provided me the benchmark and motivation for me to keep pace and not to slow down too much. I think I made a good decision to not run too fast at the early part of the race and I retain some energy for the last few km till the end. There was nothing new about the route as it was similar to most of the half marathon races but at least there was no one section that was very dar

The only run of the week, at the gym due to rain. Completed the 11.1 km run in exactly 1 hour. It was    a needed run as Sundown Marathon is a on 31 May 2013, Friday. It was a quite a difficult run as I was away on a short trip, and all the eating made my body heavier.

Started this run quite late on Sunday, 6.08 am at the East Coast Park. Started really slow, covered the 1st km in 6min42sec. The 2nd km was ran a little faster at 6min34sec. This is the 1st time we are running this slow, as the aim was to clock distance rather than doing a good time. It is definitely less demanding on the body running at this slow pace, but the problem is sticking closely to the pace. At the beginning you will find that it is indeed very slow (6.30. - 6.50) throughout almost the entire run. Initially, it's difficult to keep a constant slow pace but after maybe 15km or more, it's fine as your body starts to get tired. By about 20-21 km, I started to doubt if I still  can continue or will start walking. But, luckily, I could still find some strenght to run a little faster from the 22km onwards. Clocked 6:18, 6:08, 6:00 respectively for the last 3 km till 25km, and fiinished the last 0.62 km in about 3min. A good slow run, a good gauge for my  current overall fit

Completed a14 km run this morning in a time of 1hr21min8sec. Not fast but a better run than the last run on Sunday. The first 4 or 5 km was feeling a tightness around the top of the ankle area but it disappeared from around 5plus km and manage to get into a comfortable pace of around 5:50min. Reached a peak of 5:28 at the 10km mark, with the fastest km at 5:15 for the last 1km. The heat was a factor as I started late at 8am, running any faster would shorten my run. 

Started run at about 6.15 am from Lentor/YCK road towards Yishun. Slow start, completed 1st km in 6min 29sec, feeling ok. Just run at a easy pace, never really get any faster. Reached 10km around Seletar airport, it was really hot by then. Did picked up a little speed from there, and eventually finished the 16.5km run in 1hr48min plus. Drink some water at the public toilet and walk for a few hundred metres and ran another 2.4km back to the start point. Just a lousy run today.

Achieved a PB for the 10km in the gym, it is always easier in the gym. 49min48.01sec. I need to work to achieve the same kind of timing outdoor.  It is always difficult to push your body to that kind of limit, you got to take it a step at a time. Sometime, you know you can kind of achieve it but you tell yourself to go through the process of feeling the pain barrier, the process of doubting your body, can the body substain such a speed, etc ! And somtime, you achieve what you want in the next run, it's kind of Deja vu, you been there you know how it all feel like and you confidently bring yourself to the next level! There is no shortcut !

Recorded a new PB for 10km at the gym this evening, the time is 50min22sec. I must try to break my outdoor pb of 51min38sec at YCK stadium achieved probably 20 years ago. Have to work on strengthening my core muscle group and reducing my body weight.

Woke up late today about 9.23am, was planning to do a evening run but went out for a run anyway. Started at about 10.13am, from yck/Lentor junction to via Lentor/Yishun ave 1 to entrance of Seletar country club and back. Felt good at the start, running easy and relax, covered the 1st km in 5:53. The next km was faster at 5:44, still feeling quite good. The 1st 5km was clocked at 28:49still felling good, covered the next km in 5:40. The next km was abit faster at 5:37, but I knew from 7km plus onward it's going to be hot and directly under the sun most of the way along Lentor. Covered 7-8km in 5:38, 8-9km in 5:32 and the last km in 5:15. The total time was 56:33.7, a normal timing, could have done better. My body still  defeated my mind, try harder in the next run and have to work on my core muscle group.