For this year's AHM it seems like I was quite nervous and could not sleep well, in fact I think I did not even sleep at all. By now I should have been quite season but guess it is affecting me as I was really hoping to do well with a PB, as usual I ended up tossing and turning in bed and soon it was 3am and time to wake up to head for the race. As I managed to reach the starting line early, so for the first time I was standing very near the first few rows, this time round no more slow runners in front of me because I am the slow one :P.
The race started 5mins earlier at 5:10am, soon after the first km I managed to catch up with Solomon (Safra). I was running along side him and he suggest that he can helped paced me and I can then run on my own after 15km, he probably thought that I can last the 5min/km pace till 15km, which I myself doubt so. But since I was still feeling fresh, I thought of giving it a try.
For the first half of the race I was over-paced and it could have cost me even a 1:50hr finish. Soon as I reached the 5km mark it was too fast at 24:54mins and it was only at the 7km mark before I decide that I really need to slow down and was hoping that I can start to maintain at least a 5:15min/km pace throughout, which I did well from 8 to 10km. A glance at my Garmin watch at 10km mark shows 51:13min, hmm well... I thought still okay. But soon I started to feel really tired, paying the price of running too fast earlier, I struggled to maintain my pace and was running way too slow and sadly at full marathon pace.
It was only after 17km at 1hr 30mins that I realized I really need to up my pace and that I can only run for another 20mins. I tell myself no matter what I must not exceed 1hr 50min! But that will mean I need to maintain 5min/km pace all the way. At that moment, feeling tired and with pain on both my glutes I thought that is not quite possible but then I tell myself I will have to try, just run my hearts out. After stopping for a few seconds for dip heat, I started to up my pace, it will be 1km at a time.
As I reached the final 3km I tell myself it is just 3km and it will be like my usual 3k time trial. Strangely I grew stronger as I started to run faster and surprisingly I was at 4:36min/km pace for my last km follow by a 100m sprint to the finish as I tried hard to go below 1hr 51min gun time.
Thinking back it was foolish of me in trying to follow Solomon who was aiming for a 1:45hr finish while a sub 1:50 would have been good for me based on my current condition and fitness level. Sigh.... when will I ever learn!!! If not for my last 3km average of 5min/km pace I would have exceed 1hr 50mins.
Now I still have another half marathon in November and a marathon in December. Hopefully I can finally do well with a PB, and starting next week it will be a new training schedule for SCMS 2010. I now only have last quarter of the year for some decent results!!! :(
Split | Time | Distance | Avg Pace |
|---|---|---|---|
| Summary | 01:50:56 | 21.11 | 05:15 |
| 1 | 00:05:15 | 1.00 | 05:15 |
| 2 | 00:04:47 | 1.00 | 04:47 |
| 3 | 00:05:00 | 1.00 | 05:00 |
| 4 | 00:05:07 | 1.00 | 05:07 |
| 5 | 00:04:45 | 1.00 | 04:45 |
| 6 | 00:05:09 | 1.00 | 05:09 |
| 7 | 00:05:25 | 1.00 | 05:25 |
| 8 | 00:05:06 | 1.00 | 05:06 |
| 9 | 00:05:16 | 1.00 | 05:16 |
| 10 | 00:05:13 | 1.00 | 05:13 |
| 11 | 00:05:14 | 1.00 | 05:14 |
| 12 | 00:05:26 | 1.00 | 05:26 |
| 13 | 00:05:36 | 1.00 | 05:36 |
| 14 | 00:05:36 | 1.00 | 05:36 |
| 15 | 00:05:39 | 1.00 | 05:39 |
| 16 | 00:05:36 | 1.00 | 05:36 |
| 17 | 00:05:38 | 1.00 | 05:38 |
| 18 | 00:05:38 | 1.00 | 05:38 |
| 19 | 00:05:15 | 1.00 | 05:15 |
| 20 | 00:05:05 | 1.00 | 05:05 |
| 21 | 00:04:36 | 1.00 | 04:36 |
| 22 | 00:00:22 | 0.11 | 03:3 |
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