2015 APBIM HM Training Journal (12 wk to go)

Looking back into last week training, my running mileage is higher than what I planned.  I hope things will turn out to be good.

Due to serious haze during my training day, I had to skip one day of training.  In order to make up the mileage, I miscalculated and ended up logging a higher mileage, ie. 29.5km instead of 25km.

In order to challenge myself, I purposely did a so-called "back-to-back" run in the morning and then participated in the 8km race at night.  As I heard that army training will be to run 10km in the morning and than 10km in the afternoon.  So, I just wanted to try it out!

As I was planning to run at slow pace during the night race, I just couldn't held myself but to push little by little to finish the race with the pace of 5:42"/km despite the little hilly route.  During the race I had to remind myself to slow down a few times as I felt that I was running too fast and I didn't want to hurt myself.  I did walk up the toughest hill thou.

I was doing OK at the race and finished with a strong kick.

The consequences... I wasn't really able to run the next morning!  Other than that, everything seems to be normal.

As plan, next week will be a recovery week which I plan to just log some 20~22km.

Running clinic

Joined the running clinics at Botanical Garden. Not much to pick up from there except to know the the marathon runner that breaks their personal records are running slow at the beginning of the race. The trainer advice to run slow (at comfortable speed) at the beginning until 21km and only pick up if the runner feel strong. This is kind of align with what I read before the split the run into 3 sections, ie. beginning, mid, and end. The author suggests to run slow at the beginning; run strong in the middle of the run; and push yourself to the limit to finish the run. Another known fact is load enough sugar in the body 2~3 hours before the run. As for the run, it is not as fun because of the crowd. I actually have to stop several time during the run as the route is blocked by the crowd. I guess have to be there very early to avoid the crowd in future, if I want to run there. Overall, not a bad session as I recognize a few faces (from reading their blog but do not know their name) but causing the target long run to be just ~5km.