Date:                         Wed 16 Aug 2006

Target:                      10 km no strategy

Actual:                      10 km moderate nonstop!  And double PR too!

Timing:                                                   lap km     split km  lap time  split time

                                   Tesco End          1              1              7:38         7:38

                                   Two-Trees          1              2              7:21         14:59

                                   Jetty End             1.5           3.5           9:54         24:53

                                   Two-Trees          1.5           5              10:16       35:09

                                   Tesco End          1              6              7:27         42:37

                                   Two-Trees          1              7              7:40         50:17

                                   Jetty End             1.5           8.5           10:34       1:00:51  *** 8.5k PR.

                                   Two-Trees          1.5           10            10:30       1:11:21  *** 10k PR.  Nonstop sommore.

Pace:                         7:08/ km

Time of run:             6:15 pm

Route:                       Udini Two-Trees x5

Weather:                  Normal RH.  Cloudy day.  Moderate wind from south.

Calburn:                    692 approx

Postrun Wt:             147!  Plateau broken?

Shoes:                       Brooks Vantage 2.  Accumulated = 237 km.

Mindtune:                BEP – Mas Que Nada.

 

Comments:  Hooyagh!  Another double PR!  And more importantly, finally I ran a non-stop 10k.  It’s been a while (like 2 years?).  And this one breaks the 10k PR established in PBIM2006.  Yeah, yeah, I don’t know whether the 10k in PBIM2006 is accurate, but this one is not accurate either.  I think the Udini route 10k is more like 10.8 to 11 km based on gmaps-pedometer measurement & timings.  So conservatively again, I will put today’s 10k as a PR lah.  Putrajaya will tell for sure if it’s really true they have distance markers every 1km.

 

So now about the run.  Started slow trying to conserve energy for the last 2 kms, but kinda got out of hand, haha, like normal.  Even 1st 2 kms were sub 15-min.  Jetty end was sub-25 min, which I actually didn’t notice until I was writing this.  Usually, if I see a sub-25 min at Jetty End, the “this could be a 5, 6, or 7k PR” reflex would take over.  Haha..  So, lucky I didn’t notice it was a sub-25.  So into the 4th km or so, as usual the Demonic Side Stitch started attacking my right side, and again, fought it off with deep belly breathing & noisy exhalations, in tune to “Mas Que Nada” base guitar.  Haha, what a weirdo.  Almost all the way to the finish I was doing the base guitar thingie except when I was overtaking people.  Haha, didn’t want to startle them. 

 

Anyways, the pace got slower and slower after 6k.  Reaching Jetty-End for the second time, I felt them legs kinda strong, so started to push.  But the endurance was not there.  My quads were burning, possibly due to the lactic acid.  Managed to to just 4 seconds faster in the last 10k.

 

So, finally, a non-stop 10k.  When was the last time I did a non-stop 10k?  Can’t remember.  One thing though, the distance were really about 10.8 to 11km, then taking off around 6-7 minutes off the time, means that I can do, best case, 1:05. 

 

So looks like with this non-stop 10k, mein training will now follow this sequence every week,  7k Udini + 10k Udini + Damai LSD, interlaced with rest days.  The Udini 10k will hopefully prepare me for the various 10k races, the closest one being the Mizuno Wave Run one week after Putrajaya.  However, with all them hills in that run, I don’t think I will get a good time, nor will I run nonstop.

 

Postrun:   Hmm…  The crazy scales showed 147 to 149.  I settled for 147 to reward myself, haha.  Stretched.  Rewater 100+.  Salad dinner, really want to end the wtloss plateau.

 

Characters:   Lady beginner jogger.  Saw her before jogging + kicking deadwood along the path.  Runner looks like a Thai guy.  Two pairs of youth running, I think they did less than 5k.  One uncle with long stride, but also looks like less than 5k was already walking.  Overweight jogger wearing badminton shoes, with overweight daughter, but now daughter is walking.

 

 

 

 

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