Since i am holding on to the green tage;expected completion time of 65min and above. My strategy was to get into pen2 and be the 1st at the start line... It works well for the 1st 3.5km.
I am targeting a sub 40 timing. Meanings my 1k splits cannot be more than 4min. I would run the 1st 5k at 20min and whack hard the next 5k. I ran a 7min 52s for my 1st 2km. I am 8s ahead of my expected time and i feel real good. ... I am way ahead of the pack of wave 2 and caught up with some of the 1st wave peep...
Everything was well in plan except that at the 3.5km mark.... where i caught up with the majority of wave 1 ppl... Its disasterious man... Everyone was like so slow and blocking the way.. My next 1km was like 4min 6s... I am 6s off my pace... I cant really pick up with the ppl blocking... Ironicall some were wearing the BLUE tage... There is nothing i can do but just try to squeeze thru the crowd of 'zombie' [NOTE: Is a Simile, they move as slow as zombie]... And saying ' excuse me, sorry, dont stop, pick up the pace, etc etc' Nothing offensive .. But some misunderstood and reacted quite aggressively.. Maybe is because i knock into dem as i "ninja" pass them.. (:
Some still say ' why so rush'.. I feel quite angry lor... PPL train so hard, put in th effort and u ppl are blocking dem... But i understand lar.. Cos they cant see thee effort of others.. Cos the effort is never shown face.
But still dere is a limit to how far i can sneak thru the crowd.. At time, the run route are so narrow that everyone starts walking... So i have to slow down and walk also... The timing is compensated for this instance
i tot i did 39min 50s.. Cause i minus of the time from the clock. I was quite shock.. With all the blocking and not pushing the effort i can do such a good time.... But when the result were out it was 43min 17s.. i tink... Placed at 73th... And i got a NIKE GYM bag for coming in top 200..
rouding that up to 21km.. It is about my half marathon timing... And at singapore biathlon.. I did a 42min 10km run including transition time... That is about a 1.5km swim in the open water... 43min17s really is too slow.... No wonder i feel like a fun run instead of a competitive 10km...
Coach already warn me not to expect a PB from the race.. cause the main objective of the organizer is to promote a sporting culture in response to singapore achievement in the BEIJING OLYMPIC..So i guess this is all about it....
MY SUGGESTION TO ORAGANISER OF ROAD RACE IN FUTURE
1)EG, for NIKE HUMAN RACE. Include maybe a yellow tage. Yellow tage ppl are the competitive group. They need to show prove of a recent completion time of the exact distance regardless of local or oversea races . Recent can be a time period of 1year.
A standard can be set, maybe say a sub 43timing.
Runners of this group have to show that they complete 10km below 43mins.. This year tage people will then be ushed to the start line first.
Then follow by red tage, blue tage and so on..
This way, the competitive runners are well taken care of and the fun runners still can have their fun and not irritated by runners brushing pass them.
2) Have the race in the morning so we can have more space to run. Space has to be compromised in evening races cos road is busy hence closure of road is limited
Here's some photos taken ....
LAstly, just wan to apologise to those whom i bang into them... Very sorry about it... I just want my effort in training to pay off... ):
Congratz to those who complete the race.... CYA NEXT YEAR!!!!
Hope the yellow tage thingy is added in.. If not, i make sure the organisation give me the red tage (:
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