Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore (SCMS) 2012

The race started early at 5:00 am. Took the first train from Woodlands MRT at 3:24 am and reached Orchard MRT station around 4:05 am. After deposited my baggage at Angullia Carpark @ Orchard Rd. Did a brief warm up and headed to starting point about 30 minutes before the race and it was very crowded and unable to proceed further to the front. Found the stupid and unnecessary narrow gate control to limit sub 5 hours runners enter to the race pen.

Managed to achieved my full marathon PB (Personal Best) of 4 hour 16 minutes and 1.05 seconds for 42.195 km run. Endured the right toe blister started from 14 km onwards. Unable to keep up with 4:15 pacer and behind about 200 to 500 meters towards the end.

My time is 4.266958333 hours or  4 hours 16.017 minutes and out by 3 minutes (4.2195 hours or  4 hours 13.17 minutes) to achieve 6 minutes/km pace or 10 km/h speed.

Same as last two years, the bottleneck occurred around 37 km at ECP (East Coast Parkway) highway with many 10 and 21 km walkers. After a brief right leg cramped at 38 km and recovered and managed to sprint for the last 2 km around 10.5 km/h.

Point Time Time of Day Pace START 00:00:00 5:01:04 am -- 5KM 00:30:10 5:31:14 am 06:02 10KM 01:00:56 6:02:00 am 06:10 15KM 01:31:27 6:32:30 am 06:07 20KM 02:02:17 7:03:21 am 06:11 25KM 02:32:09 7:33:13 am 05:59 30KM 03:03:02 8:04:06 am 06:11 35KM 03:32:56 8:33:59 am 05:59 40KM 04:04:29 9:05:32 am 06:19 FINISH 04:16:02 9:17:05 am 05:16 Avg. Pace 06:05
Overall Ranking : 647 Gun Time Nett Time 04:16:53.74  04:16:01.05  SPLIT 5km 10km 15km 20km 25km 30km 35km 40km 00:30:09.59  01:00:55.48  01:31:26.21  02:02:16.85  02:32:08.66  03:03:01.63  03:32:55.16  04:04:28.07