The Infinite World

I am currently trying ways to improve my running time with really minimum training. Due to long working hours, I try to squeeze in 3-4 runs during weekend. Although this is not a solution at all, I still wish to achieve at least a pb for the coming run this Sunday and the 32km Newton Run on 20 Oct 2013. I have to try strengthen my core muscle group a little to have a chance to get my PB.

Started at 6.14 am from Ford Road carpark, started slow 6m18s 1st km, 6m12s 2nd km, try to run easy as this the 1st ECP run in 7 weeks. Covered the 3rd km in 6m5s, going under 6m by 4km, 5m57s. Seems to being going fine, clocking 5m49.9sec for the 5th km. The 6km was even faster at 5m45.2s, slowing down a little 5m50.1s for the 7th km. The 8th km was covered in 5m42s, 5m36.3s for the 9th km and 10 km in 6m6.3s including a 20s water break. 11km was covered in 5m33.8s, 5m31.8 for the 12th km. The 13th km was clocked in at 5m24.7s, followed by 5m22.5s and 5m14.3s for the 14th and 15th  respectively. I could not maintain the pace and slow to 5m41s for the 16km. The heat was unbearable and I had to take a water break and cooled myself down by wetting my head with water and the pace slowed to 7m3.8s. I slowly tried increasing my pace and managed 6m10.6s for the 18th km and 5m46.9s for the 19th km. Finally finished the 19.65km run in 1hr54m23s, it was a good run given my lack of mileage in

Completed a short run of 6km at the gym today in 30min6sec, average 5min per km. Started at 6min/km, increased my pace slowly to 5:40, then to 5:10 and eventually to 4:30 for the last 0.5km. Will have to do a long run tomorrow morning.

Whenever I received  credit cards bill, sometimes I received brochures promoting discounted goods, meals and others. They are printed really beautifully, on good quality papers, coloured and all, but 95% of the time it would end up in the waste basket. I believe it happens everyday in Singapore and elsewhere, but why these company keep doing it? In these age and time, why waste so much papers ? 

I think the state of the mind is important for achieving optimum result from training run. I guess whenever I try to rush through a run, I feel kind of distracted and would result in a mess up run. Need to train myself to be more patient and really knockout some long slow run of more than 25 km. 

Finally managed to complete a good distance of 18.5km according to my Polar RC3GPS watch, in a time of 1hr51min51sec. Did not feel very good but at least quite a smooth run from near the middle of the run till the end. Can feel my steps falling into place nicely and the body holding up well despite not drinking or eating any gel. Hope to put in a at least 21 km this weekend.

Manage to complete a 2nd run on 10 Sep 2013, Tuesday, about 10km in 1hr1min1sec. Although its a slow run, it was a good training, to get my body to accustom to running slow and far. Today, 11 Sep, 2013, managed to run 8km in 48min54sec. My body still trying to get use to running more, good training run.

Completed a short of 6.2 km at the  gym in 34min22sec. Felt heavy and out of breath, have start to put some miles into my legs. The SCB marathon is only 11 weeks away, have to take it seriously from now.

I was in Ipoh, Malaysia on 31 Aug 2013 Saturday and did a 8.11km at Polo Ground in a time 43min17sec. The park was quite crowded and I had to keep running right and left to avoid people having their morning walk. Not a pleasant run and a lot of energy wasted. Anyway I am really out of shape and it just felt so heavy when I run. This evening, 3 Sep 2013, Tuesday, run around Yio Chu Kang, covered about 10.2 km in 58min19sec. Still felt the same, heavy when I run. Today slightly better, at least no need to run through a  crowd.