1:57:18 was the time I read from my Garmin watch when I reached the HM finish line of 2014 APBIM. This is an amazing time to me. My target for this year APBIM HM was 2:06. However, when I checked the distant from the watch, it only showed 20.06km! More than 1km short from standard HM distant of 21.095km. Yes, that's more likely the case from how I feel during the run.
My friend's Garmin also showed 20.06km on his watch. Other HM runners also commented on this distant of slightly more than 20km only.
However, I stopped several times during this run. I woke up 12:30am and started my hydration plan of drinking 1.5L of water before the run. My last drink was at 1:40am and I went to toilet at 2:30am. After 5~6km of run, I felt like I need to go to toilet again. I hold on to it until I reached the toilet with no queue, which was around 11km.
Another 2 stops was at the beginning due to large group of runners. The stop-walk-run situation continued for around 0.5km. At around 15km, a runner (full marathon I guess) felt in front of me due to muscle clamp. I stopped and stood by him for a couple of seconds until another runner stop to help him.
So, here's how I can do the math. If I continue my last km with the pace of 5:51km, I would have finished the 21.095km in 2:03::21. Minus out all the 3 stoppages which total up to 2:54 mins and I should be less than 30 seconds to achieve the sub-2 in HM. If I improve the walk-run pace from 8min/km to at least 6min/km, I can take, maybe, a minute from there and really meet the sub-2 in my HM time!
After all, I shouldn't just do the math as above because I might have too tired and run with slower pace without all the stoppages!
Anyway, quite a good run and I shall wait to see how the organizer respond to the shorter HM distant!
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Sunday, November 2, 2014
Tanjung 10km Run 2014
This is the 2nd year I joined this run. It is so far the cheapest run that I joined, ie. RM20 for 10km. For last year, the race kit was just a normal T-shirt and BIB. For this year, I was hoping the same but I was surprise when what I got inside the race kit.
The race kit collection was very smooth. Not much waiting. What more is the content of the race kit. With RM20 in 2014, this is what you get:
You get a dry fit T-shirt as well.
Comparing to last year where I noticed a few buses carrying runners to the starting line, the participants for this year is relatively fewer. I still remember seeing a few groups of foreign workers joining the race last year. But not this year. It could be because the registration was done online and the short duration between the registration to the actual race day.
Anyway, the main reason for me to join the race is to be able to gauge if there's any improvement in my running speed since a year before after putting so much hard work and time for training. The target that I set to myself is to be able to finish faster than last year finishing time of 57mins. The route is relatively flat which I can also use this race result to predict my APBIM half marathon time in the coming 2 weeks.
There's no surprises before and during the run. The route is the same as last year but with less runners. As usual, I started in the middle of the pack. Only after 2km I started to feel like pulling myself away from the crowd.
I tried to control myself for not checking my Garmin watch for the speed. Instead, I wanted to train myself to run by feel. So, the 1st time I looked at my watch for speed was after 5km. I was running at 5:10min/km, which is a bit faster than I wanted to. However, since I thought I could keep this pace moving forward, I just kept running at the same speed. Unfortunately, I started to feel tired around 7km. I actually needed to push myself for the last 3km.
In order to push myself forward, I was checking at my watch quite often and try to keep to at least 5:30min/km pace until the end of the race.
With the help of my Garmin watch for checking my pace, I eventually finished the race at 52mins (for 9.8km according to my watch) . I was very please with the finishing time and most importantly, I don't feel too exhausted with this finishing time. My legs feel good as well with the Brooks PureFlow 2. I think I really like this low drop shoes.
I still think I need to improve my control over my pace. I was actually wanted to be slightly slower at the beginning of the race. To run slower at the beginning of the race is especially important for the half marathon race.
A pretty satisfying race after all...
The race kit collection was very smooth. Not much waiting. What more is the content of the race kit. With RM20 in 2014, this is what you get:
You get a dry fit T-shirt as well.
Comparing to last year where I noticed a few buses carrying runners to the starting line, the participants for this year is relatively fewer. I still remember seeing a few groups of foreign workers joining the race last year. But not this year. It could be because the registration was done online and the short duration between the registration to the actual race day.
Anyway, the main reason for me to join the race is to be able to gauge if there's any improvement in my running speed since a year before after putting so much hard work and time for training. The target that I set to myself is to be able to finish faster than last year finishing time of 57mins. The route is relatively flat which I can also use this race result to predict my APBIM half marathon time in the coming 2 weeks.
There's no surprises before and during the run. The route is the same as last year but with less runners. As usual, I started in the middle of the pack. Only after 2km I started to feel like pulling myself away from the crowd.
I tried to control myself for not checking my Garmin watch for the speed. Instead, I wanted to train myself to run by feel. So, the 1st time I looked at my watch for speed was after 5km. I was running at 5:10min/km, which is a bit faster than I wanted to. However, since I thought I could keep this pace moving forward, I just kept running at the same speed. Unfortunately, I started to feel tired around 7km. I actually needed to push myself for the last 3km.
In order to push myself forward, I was checking at my watch quite often and try to keep to at least 5:30min/km pace until the end of the race.
With the help of my Garmin watch for checking my pace, I eventually finished the race at 52mins (for 9.8km according to my watch) . I was very please with the finishing time and most importantly, I don't feel too exhausted with this finishing time. My legs feel good as well with the Brooks PureFlow 2. I think I really like this low drop shoes.
I still think I need to improve my control over my pace. I was actually wanted to be slightly slower at the beginning of the race. To run slower at the beginning of the race is especially important for the half marathon race.
A pretty satisfying race after all...
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