Well, my 1st Saucony PAssion Run at ECP. Weather was great. No sun and it wasn't raining. 1st 10km run and event for my wife and she did so well.
The start was uneventful. Less than 200m from the START, saw slow_runner on opposite side, Wave 1, 15km runner. Finished 1st km and 2nd km in 7 mins, which I was a bit worried as a bit faster than I wanted. But 3km mark sign board, took me 10 mins, which is clearly wrong. Almost same pace, surely it would not have taken 3 more minutes. After 4km, took 2 sips of plain water. Walked a bit. By the 5km mark, knew I was pushing the 8min/km mark too closely. But, was feeling tired, not breathless. Saw my wife on the opposite side at my 44min mark. She's doing well and at steady pace.
The 5km U-turn was a pain for slower 10km runners like me. There was some bottle neck. Faster 5km runners and fast 10km runners who started late just bashed through the crowd of 5km and 10km runners. Over-taking and swerving, they elbow some runners jogging slowly. (How these people drive and over-take when people cut-in before checking they won't knock into the person/car they over-take???). These are the ugly kiasu runners, who are inconsiderate and never even apologise to the runners they elbowed. Terrible.
Last 2 km was feeling really tired. Ran too fast in first 3km and after the 7km mark. Wanted to quickly get back to collect bag from baggage deposit and to snap photos. After final u-turn, 100m from Finish felt my left calf cramped. Really upset. I thought the cramp 1.5km from end of Sundown was isolated. Now, about 500m from finish I felt it coming. Same calf and same place. 100m from finish saw sgRunners', IMD and his wife YeeHua.
I finished per my watch 1:22:55 (1:23) a really slow time. SunDown 10.5km I finished in 1:24. Got to see the Chip time when it is officially released. But presently not pleased with my time and cramp. Slow time probably due to the traffic when the 5km runners did their U-turn. Sudden braking and over-taking does take a toll.
After finish line, saw DreamRunner and DO, they have finished their 15km and were wearing their 84km SunDown Finisher Tees. Thereafter, untied my Champion Chip, walked to change for the Finishers medal and goody bag. Then went to Recovery Area to get my 100Plus (wasn't ice-cold like SD) and then to Baggage Deposit. Baggage Collection was smooth.
Then went through the START line, positioned myself and waited for my wife with the camera. Finally saw her. Snapped a few pictures. Still smiling and running at a very steady pace. Ran to the finish line but missed snapping her just in front of the FINISH.
After she went through, we both took pictures in front of the FINISH and then took her to collect the medal and Goody bag. Then brought her to get 100Plus.
After that called slow_runner. We met slow_runner who was with my marathoner ex-boss, TY. She was with her mountain climbing team mate. Called my ex-colleague KenL who did 15km but he had left ECP and was on the way home.
After that, went to sgRunners booth. Saw they had broadband on mobile and people could sign up as forum members on the spot. [Cool]. Met Ripley, TLR, Terry, Kayano, Brokie, HoHoRunner, Philip, Bee, Alvo, Meteor, Vincent (Brokie's husband), zco, etc. . . .saw many forgot already. Took group photos with the sgRunners.
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