Took a ride on teelee's van to MR to meet up with some sgrunners for a run at MR25 25km run route...everyone was surprised at the hude turnout...probably bigger than the NUS run this morning happening at the same time........
Alvo was leading the run and we all have the options of doing the full or just the 20km route and or even less..we have a few ledies who will be doing shorter distance....runners who came today are all fast marathoners....majority are more than 1hrs ahead of me for 42.195km.....
We also have a guest runner, Craig from Australia joining us...who is preparing for his Gold Coast marathon...he has joined the MF runners earlier in the week....
I was planning to do 20-22km due to insufficient run and my under conditioned body
The whole route is the same as 20km route except to turn into rifle range trail at the SICC slopes after completing the Upper Pierce part for 2.5km before turning back and carry on the 20km route.
The whole group started out intact with the faster and strong runners in front....we reached SICC clubhouse at about 23min...it was actually quite a fast pace for me to last 20km.....along the way to Upper pierce, i managed to keep in pace with Craig and we started chatting....reached Upper pierce reservoir park, we took a water break at the toilet before we went to the aircon road and main gate and took a second break at the same toilet.....
Cokiee, craig and myself reached the 2nd toilet break and the forerunners went off without us...3 of us went on after the break...cokieee was struggling on the slopes as craig and myself still taking easy...
We reached the road at SICC and turned into rifle range part....no front runners in front...those guys are surging fast ahead....we decided to take it slowly.....Cokiee apparently missed the entrance and went back doing the 20km route.....
we went on and struggled..and started walking upslopes and run on flats.....finally reached rifle range road before we finally meet the front runners charging back....and was told to U-turn at the flyover at BKE...that was further than 2.5km we thought.....Criag and myself struggled thru after the U-turn as we reached back SICC road, the Sun was out in full heat...he was having problem with the heat and humidity and I was not conditioned enough to go that far...we decided to run with walk breaks to ease the strain....
We managed to came in as the last runners with a time of about 3hrs 13min...we were told the distance is 26.4km...the rest have already finished their wash up.....Bug was having problem with his knee and walked the last 4km.....as i was using my techamphib which was in the shelf for 6 months. (last used for my ultramarathon last christmas)...i actually got a big blister at the end of my run.....maybe is the way i run, maybe is the terrain or maybe my feet has grown in size....
I guess, will need a few more 20km run before i proceed further...and to keep the 3 times a week schedule more consistent...
hopefully no major aches or injury this time
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