Surprise, surprise. Really it is beyond my wildest imagination.
At end Oct during the NBRR, I clocked 1:29 (round up a few seconds) for 10km although that was over different terrain and in much hotter weather.
But the SCSM results are out.
EVENT: Men 10Km
DATE: Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
BIB/DIV: 40679 / M3034
TIME: 1h:27m:1s (gun) / 1h:18m:23s (net)
Average: 7:50/km Speed: 7.7km/h
The improvement is amazing. On SCSM registration, my expected finish time was stated as 1h:35m. Well, just thank God I completed, got a Personal Best time and did not drop dead or anything. Also, my feet no damage and must attribute it to the new NB 1223 bought the Saturday before at NB Concept store, basement Raffles City (S$157.50 after 30% discount). Can't imagine what would have happened if I used the Brookes "The Beast" like for NBRR, probably have more bleeding toes and sore legs and thighs. Now, I am glad I bought shoes with better cushioning. :)
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
My SCSM 07 10km PB!!
Monday, December 3, 2007
Standard Chartered Marathon 2007 - My 1st SCSM 10km
1st time running 10km for SCSM.
I arrived late. Stopped at Raffles Place MRT. Went to Fullerton Hotel to use their toilet. What a blessing - having a nice toilet with no queue.
Walked to starting line. Annoucer said 3 minutes to start. Really long walk to the start. Some more, had to walk up and down staircase since can't close the road. Reach start so very late. I started around 8-10 minutes after gun time.
Starting jogging. HRM was at 146. Better than NBRR which started at 161. But less than 200 metres, the HRM was flashing past the 159 mark. Anyway, I decided to keep jogging as there were many people behind.
After 2 km mark, at Marina Street (after the Marina Bay MRT), saw one guy at the side, sitting down and cluthing his tummy. Wanted to stop but saw this 'marshall' with walkie-talkie asking 'Are you alright'. Decided to go on. Some guys were laughing about the large number of people walking and said, "Like big walk" and they all had a good laugh.
I appreaciate the drinks station which was advertised on the SCSM website as every 1.5km after the 1st drink station at the 3km mark. Sipped a little mineral water at each station.
Just before the 7km mark (& drink station), someone pointed to the white signboard and said, "9km! The gods are trying to be kind to me". Hee Hee. The white signboards were for 21km, I think. The 10km markers were yellow boards.
Reached the finishing line at 1:18:42 per my watch. Official clock was 1:26:xx which explains how late I started. Followed instructions. Untie my champion chip and exchanged it for my finishers' medal. Cool, 1st medal for completing a race.
Saw my elder See Chuan looking for his daughter. We asked each other if we ran. He told me it was his third SCSM 10km run. Told him it was my first.
Took 1 bottle of ice-mountain and also 100Plus. Wah, ice-cold 100plus had never tasted so good to me before. :)
Walked to my office. Took my haversack with my change of clothes and digicam. Walked back to padang. Sent sms to slow-runner, jodan and my colleague ken. Walked around and took some photos randomly at the padang and also some runners coming into the finishing line. Photos are at http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/kcslchin/SCSM2007 . Berocca had a booth that provided free cups of berocca. I took one for the fun of it. I noted a few corporates had their own tents and runners dressed dressed in sponsored tees as well as supporters and support crew that pouted 100plus in their tens. I like the Singapore National Eye Centre tee with the "Run for Sight" at the back of their running singlets.
Slow-runner called me and I left for breakfast with him. Settled into The Pizza Place, at Raffles City Basement. I had a regular New York Pizza, finish the whole pizza except one slice. Slow-runner had Creamy Mushroom Linguine. They don't take credit card for orders below $30 so thankfully had cash on me. Met Chris Seah and Eu Lee as well as Chris' brother at the basement. They were also looking for makan. After that, me and slow-runner adjourned to Starbucks for our latte and green tea latte :p
I must say I enjoyed my run today.
I arrived late. Stopped at Raffles Place MRT. Went to Fullerton Hotel to use their toilet. What a blessing - having a nice toilet with no queue.
Walked to starting line. Annoucer said 3 minutes to start. Really long walk to the start. Some more, had to walk up and down staircase since can't close the road. Reach start so very late. I started around 8-10 minutes after gun time.
Starting jogging. HRM was at 146. Better than NBRR which started at 161. But less than 200 metres, the HRM was flashing past the 159 mark. Anyway, I decided to keep jogging as there were many people behind.
After 2 km mark, at Marina Street (after the Marina Bay MRT), saw one guy at the side, sitting down and cluthing his tummy. Wanted to stop but saw this 'marshall' with walkie-talkie asking 'Are you alright'. Decided to go on. Some guys were laughing about the large number of people walking and said, "Like big walk" and they all had a good laugh.
I appreaciate the drinks station which was advertised on the SCSM website as every 1.5km after the 1st drink station at the 3km mark. Sipped a little mineral water at each station.
Just before the 7km mark (& drink station), someone pointed to the white signboard and said, "9km! The gods are trying to be kind to me". Hee Hee. The white signboards were for 21km, I think. The 10km markers were yellow boards.
Reached the finishing line at 1:18:42 per my watch. Official clock was 1:26:xx which explains how late I started. Followed instructions. Untie my champion chip and exchanged it for my finishers' medal. Cool, 1st medal for completing a race.
Saw my elder See Chuan looking for his daughter. We asked each other if we ran. He told me it was his third SCSM 10km run. Told him it was my first.
Took 1 bottle of ice-mountain and also 100Plus. Wah, ice-cold 100plus had never tasted so good to me before. :)
Walked to my office. Took my haversack with my change of clothes and digicam. Walked back to padang. Sent sms to slow-runner, jodan and my colleague ken. Walked around and took some photos randomly at the padang and also some runners coming into the finishing line. Photos are at http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/kcslchin/SCSM2007 . Berocca had a booth that provided free cups of berocca. I took one for the fun of it. I noted a few corporates had their own tents and runners dressed dressed in sponsored tees as well as supporters and support crew that pouted 100plus in their tens. I like the Singapore National Eye Centre tee with the "Run for Sight" at the back of their running singlets.
Slow-runner called me and I left for breakfast with him. Settled into The Pizza Place, at Raffles City Basement. I had a regular New York Pizza, finish the whole pizza except one slice. Slow-runner had Creamy Mushroom Linguine. They don't take credit card for orders below $30 so thankfully had cash on me. Met Chris Seah and Eu Lee as well as Chris' brother at the basement. They were also looking for makan. After that, me and slow-runner adjourned to Starbucks for our latte and green tea latte :p
I must say I enjoyed my run today.
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