KLIM circuit Run no.2

have not had a long run in ages but i rested well for the Circuit run on 24th February 2008.....

woke up early before 530 am to catch the results of my ironman friends and congrats to all them as most of them made the finishing line (except my ex school mate Alex - dont know what happen)... and Carmen was our women's qualifier for Kona... well done...

rush to the boat house for registration and as usual it started late.... Malaysia wut... what to do... and the route changed as well (which didnt bother me as i dont know about the original route) apparently there is some development going on...

so one loop is about 2.8km... so i figure out i need to do sub 15 mins a loop to be able to complete 9 loops in 2hr 15mins... the race started well and i managed to clocked 14:30 for the first loop (including peeing time of 30s).... wow 9 laps is doable eh...

manage to catch up will Yip (ultramarathoner) and was suprise that he was struggling... had a chat with him and he told me that he just did 65km yesterday... is this guy nuts or what... and he still wants to do more than 20k today.... OMG how unfit can i be...

nevertheless manage to run strongly and even lapped Adrian (dont get angry eh- he was just doing a slow jog ) .... finished in 2:10:48 which works out to about 5:10 pace for 25.2 km... wow i was really suprised... i can target sub4hrs man like that...

but the downside was i struggled during the later stages as fitness was not really there yet.... so maybe 4:15 is more realistic.... furthermore i had problems walking after that as i have pushed to hard already.... manage to run a bit on Tuesday and i was suffering...

till then 14th March will try to do 13 laps = 36.4km (3:15) for my final longest run before the event... wish me luck eh....... if can achieve then i should be able to complete the marathon comfortably...

KLIM registration

its been some time since i have been even remotely interested to blog.... must have been the CNY celebration... felt so lazy over the past month...

finally submitted my KLIM full marathon form to Francis for registration.... didnt know what i was thinking..... training has been really irregular.... would u believe it that my highest weekly mileage so far has been only a measly 38k during the CNY period... other than that i didnt even reach 20k....

but what the heck... if i can do 30k comfortably should be able to finish 42k in one piece.... been also swimming more to strenghten my heart....... i dont know whether its true or not but i feel much stronger after swimming more compare to running higher mileage... even during GE30k my running mileage was not really high... my longest run was only 24k.... but i felt strong during the race... as i dont have a HR monitor dont really monitor my heart rate.... anyone care to comment/advice??

since Adrian (Mat Salleh panjang) is also going for full ... might as well go for full while i am still at it.... pray for the best and this week will be the Circuit Run no.2 for 2 hrs 15 mins... if i can do 10 laps = 23km ( i think) comfortably then i am confident in completing my maiden full marathon..