marathon history..

Marathon Track Record:

SCSM Full Marathon 2006 (05:12:24)
SCSM Full Marathon 2007 (05:47:24)
SCSM Full Marathon 2009 (05:42:44)
Sundown FullMarathon 11 (05:28.52)
SCSM Full Marathon 2012 (06:02:18)


a very quick summary:

2006 - 1st marathon: trained damm hard for it. 2006 is the period where im still in poly, when life is carefree, fun and there are lots of freetime. i recall my weekly target is to run at least 3x. 2x during weekdays where i will try to clock between 5 to 10km, and 1 weekend run where i clock distance. I recall clocking around 33km in one of the weekends.

i remember i was trying to aim for a timing under 5hrs, but was 12mins behind, overall still very satisfied with the result. i read so much info about hitting the wall, pain on the soles, ankles, knees etc etc.. all 1st hand experience.. i did not have much strategic planning for the run, timing could better if i planned and applied some strategies i used.


2007 - 2nd marathon, i trained, but not as hard. i don recall i clock a 30km run during training.. maybe at best is 27km i think. got complacence in training and on the race itself. mentally weak, lazy to push myself and therefore got such poor timing.. dishearten, i went on a oversea trip in 2008..

2009 - this was after my army, doing part-time studies. i also forgotten most details of this. i also forgotten if it was this marathon, or the marathon in 2007 that i discover my walk run technique using mp3 player.

2011 - one of my best marathon (aside from 2006) as i unintentionally discovered the other few secrets which worked for me. I recalled i did some training, but not as substantial as per my previous few marathons. at the finishing line of this marathon, looking at my timing of such and the amount of training effort, i thought to myself.. "marathon is no longer a challenge. maybe it time to move on to ultra.." i guess you could now sense how satisfied i was with my results and with myself.

2012 - the marathon which i did not plan on running.. on a quite last min notice, i decided to take on my dad's number tag to run. totally did not train at all.. max distance clock was like maybe 18km... i had a poly 50 race 2-3 weeks before this marathon. so the training focus was a lot on sprint and recovery (poly50). super complacence, thought that my new found strategy can rule the world no matter what.. haha.. silly me.

2013 - how will things turn out??


a summary of my training:

Jun-Oct: never run and live very unhealthy. althought i blog about 11 more weeks to marathon in sept, i still nua for another month before i officially get my butt up to train.

21 Oct: 12km - 1hr 19min: 1st run since donkey years. mainly for warming up, taking it easy, get back into the mood of long dist running. walk a bit here and there.

31 Oct: 18km - 2hr 3mins: mentally force my tired body to run 99% of the time. knees and ankle felt painful during and after the run, for about 2 days..

2-8 Nov: fall sick. flu, sore throat, blocked nose.. i rested and hope my knees recover.

14 Nov: 26.5km - 3hr 26min - ran most of the 1st 20km, knees got horribly painful. practically walked the last 4km home.. after research, found out i got runners knee..

17 Nov: 15.7km - 2hr 6min. ECP. Knees giving me problem. expected it to do so..