After 7 years of running I finally tried out a full marathon. It is not a pleasant one that cause me to be very demotivating in running for a few months before I start to like training again. I guess this could be over train syndrome. I didn't force myself to hard to get back to my normal weekly mileage of 20km and my weekly mileage drop for a few weeks or months. Another possibility could be the change in my life style since I didn't take up a full time job this year and still looking to get a balance in my life.
The above caused me to run my worse HM in Jul and Nov.
All of these could pass now as I started to get exited in training again and looking at logging 20km consistently again as soon as I could.
I concluded the year with another Penang Round Island Relay, which initially I wasn't intended to join. I joined the relay for the pass 2 years and found that very tiring to start my journey as early as 3am and ended around 2pm in the afternoon. For this year, I just participated in my run and went back home for rest before going to the finish line again when the team finished. I was running in Station #4 with up hill that not much people like to run. However, it turned out not too bad to me to be able to run 5:49min/km pace, which I am very satisfy with despite having high fever the week before with less than 10 km per week for the last 2 weeks.
As I was working hard to cut down my races, I finally managed to do it this year due to other commitment. For the whole 2017, I just joined 5 races including my 1st FM. There were 2 races that I wanted to join but not able to due to schedule conflict.
Summary for 2017:-
My plan for 2018:-
The above caused me to run my worse HM in Jul and Nov.
All of these could pass now as I started to get exited in training again and looking at logging 20km consistently again as soon as I could.
I concluded the year with another Penang Round Island Relay, which initially I wasn't intended to join. I joined the relay for the pass 2 years and found that very tiring to start my journey as early as 3am and ended around 2pm in the afternoon. For this year, I just participated in my run and went back home for rest before going to the finish line again when the team finished. I was running in Station #4 with up hill that not much people like to run. However, it turned out not too bad to me to be able to run 5:49min/km pace, which I am very satisfy with despite having high fever the week before with less than 10 km per week for the last 2 weeks.
As I was working hard to cut down my races, I finally managed to do it this year due to other commitment. For the whole 2017, I just joined 5 races including my 1st FM. There were 2 races that I wanted to join but not able to due to schedule conflict.
Summary for 2017:-
- Joined my 1st FM. Concluded that I need more training to participate in FM.
- Clocking my my worst HM timing which could be due to insufficient training or age!
- Participated in only 5 races, vs 13 races in 2016!
My plan for 2018:-
- Increase weekly mileage. Slowly increase my mileage to ~30km per week.
- Increase my weekly running days to 4 days a week.
- Join less races. Only focus on HM locally, or charity race, hoefully 5~6 races should be good enough.
