MR25 Progressive Series 2013 – 10km

The race started early at 7:00 am. Reached there around 6:45 am with wife and daughter. The left leg felt fatigue after about 1.5 km and worry about leg cramp. Tailed gate an old MR25 runner (he worn an old MR25 T-shirt) since I wasn't sure about the actual route. Overtook him around 8 Km at Lornie road and followed few runners ahead of him.

Ran cautiously since the trail terrain is quite slippery and very uneven. Control my down slope speed afraid of tripping.

Managed to achieved a time of 53 minutes 17 seconds and came in 31st. since my last MR25 time trial ran on August 2012.

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

Swissôtel Vertical Marathon 2012


Managed to achieved my PB with 12 minutes and 41 seconds.

The chronological of my achievement are:

2011    13 minutes 21 seconds
2010    13 minutes 48 seconds
2009    14 minutes 13 seconds

100PLUS PAssion Run 2012 (Sunday)

The second leg of 21 km race started at 7:00 am and achieved in 1 hour 52 minutes. Slowed down in the second half race due to energy drained the previous night 9 km run.

After completed Saturday's 9 km and Sunday's 21 km, we were awarded the Finisher Tee of 30 Km.




Singapore Passion Run 2012 - Half Marathon Top Runners (Video)

Passion Run Photos

Race Results

21KM MEN'S OPEN

1. Jagat Bahadur Magar - 1hr 17min 36sec
2. Dev Kumar Rai - 1hr 19min 19sec
3. Sanjeev Tumbahangphe Limbu - 1hr 23min 00sec

21KM WOMEN'S OPEN

1. Cheong Siok Hian - 1hr 43min 49sec
2. Eng Hwee Ling Ezann - 1hr 46min 35sec
3. Koh Beng Geok - 1hr 56min 13sec

12KM MEN'S VETERAN

1. David Stevenson - 0hr 50min 09sec
2. Alex Tiong King Hee - 0hr 50min 36sec
3. Goh Lean Seng - 0hr 50min 42sec

12KM WOMEN'S VETERAN

1. Tay Hwee Choo - 1hr 03min 44sec
2. Lim Hui-Choo - 1hr 08min 44sec
3. Marisu Moscardini - 1hr 17min 07sec

12KM MEN'S OPEN

1. Wambui Paul Kimani - 0hr 41min 48sec
2. Umesh Rai - 00hr 42min 44sec
3. Birjung Budha - 00hr 42min 50sec

12KM WOMEN'S OPEN

1. Anne Lavandon - 00hr 55min 57sec
2. Jillian See Shu Xin - 00hr 56min 57sec
3. Lim Xin Yi - 01hr 06min 37sec

9KM MEN'S OPEN

1. Wambui Paul Kimani - 0hr 30min 38sec
2. Dev Kumar Rai - 00hr 33min 23sec
3. Dhashman Thangavelu - 00hr 35min 06sec

9KM WOMEN'S OPEN

1. Uta Urbaniak - 00hr 43min 59sec
2. Claire Price - 00hr 44min 17sec
3. Kristina Liu-Blanton - 00hr 45min 03sec

100PLUS PAssion Run 2012 (Saturday)

The 9km race started at 5:45 pm. Reached the starting point 10 minutes before the race and it was very crowded .

Managed to achieved about 45 minutes and according to most runners, the actual distance is about 9.4 km.

Newton Challenge 2012

The race started early at 5:30 am. Reached the starting point 10 minutes before the race and it was very crowded .

Managed to achieved about 2 hour 48 minutes for 30 km run. My right foot felt stiffed and cramped around 12 km. Removed the right sock at 14 km and felt better but suffered blister due to sands residue in the right shoe and put back the sock at 21 km u-turn point and endured the blister pain all the way to finishing line. Otherwise may shed another 5 to 10 minutes.

Race Category	30KM MENS
Nett Time	2h 48m 12s
Gun Time	2h 48m 41s
Rank	241 of 1499

The weather was getting rather hot after 23 km.

The finishing treat really a feast to the runners with ample icy cold Pocari Sweat, bananas, water melons, ice cream, bean curd and icy cold tower.

With the new introduction of shuttle bus service from main MRT stations really helped to bring runners to the event venue much earlier. The departure time of 4:35 am was a bit late for 5:30 am run. Reached the venue 15 minutes before the race was really rush.

New Balance Real Run 2012

Nice and cool weather and the race started early at 6:30 am. With early 4:30 am shuttle bus, reached the venue around 5:20 am and able to start from few rows behind the starting line.

Managed to achieved about 1 hour 49 minutes for 21 km with worst trail and sand run. Bottle neck all the way before the beach to end point due to many 10 km walkers.

I lost my Polar foot pacer and from recorded data, it has lost around 40 meters after 40 meters during initial run.

With the new introduction of shuttle bus service from main MRT stations really helped to bring runners to the event venue much earlier.