Newton Challenge 2017

This race is part of my preparation for 3^rd December 2017 Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore. With only about 1 month to go, I am still not in good shape as I still have this heavy legs symptom every morning. Nevertheless I am still able to follow most of my training schedule closely, just that on easy days I had to run slower than usual.

As the race was schedule to start at 4:30am, I only had less than 5 hours of sleep after reaching home at around 9pm and wake up at 2:30am to have breakfast. I managed to reach Marina Barrage race site at around 3:50am, did a 5 minutes warm up run before I proceed to the start point.

The race started exactly at 4:30am and I run at an easy pace of 5:10min/km to 5:20min/km for 4 km leading to ECP. My thought then was to just complete this race as an LSD. However I was feeling great after the initial slow pace and I was able to keep close to 5min/km pace. It certainly felt good to run on my daily training ground too.

Along the way I tried to maintain 5min/km pace, I started seeing some familiar faces (Safra runners) and overtook a number of runners after running alongside them and very soon I got into the rhythm and was cruising at 5min/km for the entire race. It was a great feeling to know that I am back to my previous fitness level with a new PB for this event!

Splits	Time	Cumulative Time	Moving Time	Distance	Avg Pace	Avg Moving Pace	Best Pace
1	05:18.2	05:18.2	5:17	1	5:18	5:17	4:39
2	05:10.0	10:28	5:08	1	5:10	5:08	4:58
3	05:20.3	15:48	5:17	1	5:20	5:17	5:09
4	05:17.4	21:06	5:10	1	5:17	5:10	5:08
5	05:06.9	26:13:00	5:03	1	5:07	5:03	5:03
6	04:56.9	31:10:00	4:55	1	4:57	4:55	4:05
7	04:59.8	36:10:00	4:59	1	5:00	4:59	4:06
8	05:08.3	41:18:00	5:01	1	5:08	5:01	4:27
9	05:07.4	46:25:00	5:04	1	5:07	5:04	4:59
10	05:04.3	51:30:00	5:04	1	5:04	5:04	4:20
11	05:02.5	56:32:00	4:54	1	5:02	4:54	4:46
12	05:07.5	1:01:40	5:02	1	5:08	5:02	4:50
13	04:58.6	1:06:38	4:53	1	4:59	4:53	4:48
14	05:00.6	1:11:39	5:00	1	5:01	5:00	4:47
15	05:01.5	1:16:40	5:01	1	5:01	5:01	4:54
16	04:57.4	1:21:38	4:56	1	4:57	4:56	4:33
17	04:57.5	1:26:35	4:51	1	4:57	4:51	4:47
18	05:01.7	1:31:37	4:58	1	5:02	4:58	4:49
19	04:57.5	1:36:34	4:56	1	4:58	4:56	4:47
20	04:56.0	1:41:30	4:50	1	4:56	4:50	4:23
21	04:59.8	1:46:30	4:54	1	5:00	4:54	4:54
22	04:52.5	1:51:23	4:50	1	4:52	4:50	4:32
23	04:56.1	1:56:19	4:53	1	4:56	4:53	4:46
24	04:57.1	2:01:16	4:52	1	4:57	4:52	4:36
25	04:56.2	2:06:12	4:55	1	4:56	4:55	4:47
26	04:52.1	2:11:04	4:49	1	4:52	4:49	4:47
27	04:57.5	2:16:02	4:52	1	4:58	4:52	4:41
28	05:00.0	2:21:02	4:55	1	5:00	4:55	4:50
29	04:58.3	2:26:00	4:53	1	4:58	4:53	4:41
30	04:53.9	2:30:54	4:51	1	4:54	4:51	4:31
31	04:44.8	2:35:39	4:43	1	4:45	4:43	4:30
32	04:41.5	2:40:20	4:36	1	4:41	4:36	4:19
33	00:27.3	2:40:48	0:26	0.12	3:47	3:36	3:11
Summary	2:40:48	2:40:48	2:40:48	32.12	5:00	5:00	3:11