Another run done. Though it's only 15km (with 1km sand + 1km trail + 1 km runway), I felt satisfied with not much training done due to work commitment for the past 2 weeks.
The first 3km was quite comfortable pace except for running around the walking party. There was this particular X-men suited guy who overtook me whilst I was also overtaking and cliped my legs. He still has the cheek to say : I was following behind you and you just overtake like that !" I was thinking : Do I need to give signal and why can't you slow down since there are not much space to overtake." I felt so ashame being a singaporean , so what if you can run fast but your ethics are not there.
This being aside, I was telling myself to keep at 5 min /km pace and I managed to do it till the 11km. When I reached the sand , I could feel myself slowing down and those that I have overtaken , started to run past me.
When I was on the road back to the runway, it seemed never-ending which proves to be demoralising. Then I saw this boy (around 15 yo) who ran past me walking, I ran up to him and say: Let's go" and he said : ok". with that , I ran the last 2km with this young boy and started to chat with him. When I reached the 14km mark , I was very tempted to walk , at the same time, the fact that I told the young boy to keep running, I should not stop to walk and this kept me going and going.
The first 3km was quite comfortable pace except for running around the walking party. There was this particular X-men suited guy who overtook me whilst I was also overtaking and cliped my legs. He still has the cheek to say : I was following behind you and you just overtake like that !" I was thinking : Do I need to give signal and why can't you slow down since there are not much space to overtake." I felt so ashame being a singaporean , so what if you can run fast but your ethics are not there.
This being aside, I was telling myself to keep at 5 min /km pace and I managed to do it till the 11km. When I reached the sand , I could feel myself slowing down and those that I have overtaken , started to run past me.
When I was on the road back to the runway, it seemed never-ending which proves to be demoralising. Then I saw this boy (around 15 yo) who ran past me walking, I ran up to him and say: Let's go" and he said : ok". with that , I ran the last 2km with this young boy and started to chat with him. When I reached the 14km mark , I was very tempted to walk , at the same time, the fact that I told the young boy to keep running, I should not stop to walk and this kept me going and going.
Another 200-300 m to go, I picked up the speed and sprint to the end pt with a timing of 1 hr 17 min 53 sec. Not too bad I thought.(Results : 158 out of 2441 who completed.
1st CP : 29.34
2nd CP: 57.12
Finish : 1 hr 17 m 53 s)
Now back to my SCSM training. Set a target of finishing by 4 hour 15 min. With the kind of timing for 15km , I have lotsa of catch up to do.
1st CP : 29.34
2nd CP: 57.12
Finish : 1 hr 17 m 53 s)
Now back to my SCSM training. Set a target of finishing by 4 hour 15 min. With the kind of timing for 15km , I have lotsa of catch up to do.
