It’s been a year! My first Sub 33:30 10k!
Week 2 Day 6, PM.
"You got to work hard even though you are running alone, and that's how you achieve your dream!"
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Participated in Sundown Taipei Marathon Men's Open 10KM 2017. The second series of Sundown Marathon, which held in Taipei. I got invited to run the first series in Penang, Malaysia, but too bad was not able to make it due to the SUKMUM (Track and Field) Day of UM, and I have to run for my college.
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Reach Taiwan on Monday night 11pm and travel around until Tuesday next week. The weather getting colder and colder. First day was 18℃ and now dropped to 14℃ with some drizzling rain yesterday for whole day.
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Control my diet and make sure I won't eat more junk food and do a hard sessiom here and taper for the event. Want to do a really fast time here as the weather is much more colder than Malaysia.
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Fast forward to Saturday, went out at 6.15pm from my hotel at Ximending and take the train to nearest station and walk to the race site. Thanks to the organizer, who allow the international runner to collect racekit on the same day. Collected my racekit at 7pm, chill at there and have a cup of American Coffee. Took a tablet of Actigin at 9pm, and proceed to warm up. Ran about 10 minutes to warm my body up and add on with drills, fast strides. Got into the starting pen at 9.40pm.
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Race flagged of exactly at 10pm straight. We running on the Dajia Riverside Park, is a big circle like the Putrajaya Park. Race started, I ran out fast as I know the weather gonna benefit me, help to cool the engine down (prevent overheat). Real strong headwind in the first half of the course, running alone from the beginning until the end, did not able to draft anyone, and rely on my own hardwork. Clocked the first 5k at 16:50 minutes with the split time of 3:05, 3:21, 3:26, 3:29, 3:28. Getting slower due to strong headwind and I tried to reserve the fuel, want to push harder in the next half.
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At the U-turn, looked to the opposite, roughly a 400m gap betweem the second pack runner. There's also a category for group challenge of 4 in a team and the shortest time taken from the group will win the category. 4 high school students running in a row at that time, working out and they did a great job as they pace each other. Thinking of they might speed up the next half, but I still have fuel left in my tank, so I focus on speeding up and try to get a positive split time in the next 5k.
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Running alone and follow the motorbikes in front of me, passby and got a few photographer snap the photos. Thanks to them. Wondering where can I get the photo later on. Later on, pay more attention on my pacing, countdown from 5, 4, 3, 2km. The next 3k split time: 3:20, 3:22, 3:21. Thinking of keeping up at this pace, definitely a personal best, and counting the time I going to finish, a sub 34!
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Saw the finishing line at the last 1.5km away, and quickly change the gear up. Looked at my Forerunner 735xt, it showed 8.6km, and I knew it's going to be under distance. Ran hard and finish it in the time of 31:20 min for the distance of 9.3km, came back as Champion, then quickly run for another 700m to clock the PB. Finished the 10km in 33:26 minutes. A new PB and it hits my 2017 new year resolution. Last 2k split time: 3:23, 3:06. Next 5k split 16:36 minutes.
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Would like to say thanks to all my fellow friends, runners, sponsors and also my family who supported me.
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