Achieved my personal worst in a 21km race. But enjoyed every moment of it nonetheless :-)This is a new race to me and I completed it in 2hr 9mins. The race format was interesting. Held at Punggol (which is a nice change from ECP), runners had to complete 3 loops of 7km. Initially, I thought this would be a good opportunity to achieve my personal best as the route was very flat and 3 loops of 7km would mean that I could pace myself better, thinking that I would be on track for a personal best so long as I keep under 40 mins per loop. Things went well for the first 1.75 loops. However, the legs chose not to cooperate with the plan after that...
Personally, I liked this race. This was because it was not crowded, with amply stocked water points and if you really trained and put your mind to it, a personal best was highly possible. The winner, Mok Ying Ren who completed the race just over 1 hr, went on to encourage runners along the route giving high fives by doing an extra lap (even his warm down lap was fast...). Well, he high-fived me no less than 3 times at 3 separate locations along the route! See how slow I was going? haha...
So what excuses could I give myself now for achieving my personal worst? Well, I could say that I was still recovering from KL Marathon which happened 2 weeks ago. I could also say that I have not been feeling fantastically well since KL and only did one 8km run the week prior to the race. And of course, I am not getting any younger. Excuses, excuses... Whatever it was, I was glad that I did the run, and had a good experience. More importantly, I also completed the race injury-free :-)
Not achieving my personal best in this race also cast a shadow on the possibility of achieving a personal best this coming AHM for the simple reason that AHM tended to be a very congested race... I just have to wait and see how AHM turns out.
Now looking forward to AHM :-)
Next race: AHM
