Had a great run at 7:30am on a very cooling Sunday morning. Initially I was tempted to go for the MR25 30km run as you don't often get such opportunities for such long distance event, but in the end I still stick to my original plan to compete in this race and with that I have to do my longer distance run on Saturday with AdiNation instead. But without a good rest before race day I wonder if I can still do well for this race. Well... I won't be expecting too much and will just go for a 48min finishing time, which is to aim for 4:48min/km.
This race started sharply at 7:30pm but I was held up waiting for ee at the toilet queue area before we both started about 2mins late, and as usual I will lookout for gaps in between the route to overtake slower runners ahead. I was feeling quite enegetic as I overtook Yen (TPY Safra) at about the 3km mark and by then I was feeling tired, guess I over paced myself.
I decide to slow down slightly for recovery, but will try to maintain a pace of below 5min/km, and as usual at the 5km mark I took a glance on my timing. Hmm..... about 24mins and so far so good at least on track for a sub 50min finish. At the moment I too spotted Julian (ex-DSTA), shouted and waved at him, quite surprise to see him as a volunteer road marshall.
For the next 3km I managed to maintain a pace of about 5min/km, along the way I overtake Vincent Leong (TPY Safra) and Lawrence (TPY Safra) and some other runners from Tampines Safra. I find it misleading in the final 3km route as there were a number of turns and U-turns, and from a distance I thought I was nearer to finishing line as I up my pace too early and especially for the last 1km. But nevertheless I am quite pleased with my run as with the number of up and down slopes, it makes it very difficult to maintain a steady consistant pace.
Lastly I am not too pleased with the distance as my Garmin watch shows 9.78km, do wonder if this is a personal best for me as based on my average pace of 4:51min/km my timing for 10km would have been 48mins 30secs instead.
Garmin watch distance: 9.78 km__Time: 47:27.28min__Pace: 04:51 min/km
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