Posted December 31st, 2009 by wilson
1. Train better.
I am, by admission, not a fussy runner when it comes to training. While I do adhere to the gradual increase in weekly mileage, my training routine lacks the regularity, variety and specificity present in the elite runner’s arsenal(speedwork-tempo-long run). If I am to get better, I would simply have to train better [...]
Tags: 2010, National Finals, new year, resolutions, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, TNF 100
Posted December 23rd, 2009 by wilson
If I would be asked to create a timeline of the key developments and events in the 2009 racing scene, I would come up with the following:
January - racing season opens with the PSE Bull Run, which was a flop(execution-wise)
March - standard for local races raised with the historic Condura 2009: Run for the Whale [...]
Tags: 33rd National Milo Marathon, Bataan Death March 2009, Condura 2009: Skyway Run for the Whale Sharks, Kenny’s Open 2009 Urbanite Run, National Finals, Philippine International Marathon, PSE Bull Run 2009, Quezon City International Marathon, Rizal Day 20-miler, Run for Home, Subic International Marathon, timeline, Timex Run, TNF 100
Posted December 20th, 2009 by wilson
Wow, it has been a while.
I guess I did neglect this blog quite a bit in the past week, due to a lot of other commitments I had to attend to.
Just a bit of an update: yes, the one month self-imposed running hiatus(aka the recovery period) is still in effect. I had begun doing light [...]
Tags: injury, updates
Posted December 15th, 2009 by wilson
It has been said that the marathon, when compared to other races, is a different animal. Well, a marathon abroad is different from a local one in many aspects as well, as I discovered. Here are some lessons that I learned from the recently concluded SCSM. I’d be keeping these in mind in my future [...]
Tags: full marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon
Posted December 13th, 2009 by wilson
I think it’s time to face the music - I’m injured.
I clearly pushed my body past its limit, subjected it to much more abuse than it could take, resulting in my disappointing showing at the SCSM. I clearly underestimated the toll each and every 26.2-miler that I ran took on my body, and overestimated my [...]
Tags: injury, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon
Posted December 11th, 2009 by wilson
Going home
I began to walk. It wasn’t easy, but I knew(I experienced the pain before in training) that with warm up I would be able to run again, even if painfully. An Indian guy(whose name I unfortunately didn’t get) passed beside me and encouraged me to run, saying “mind over matter” over and over again. [...]
Tags: 42.195K, full marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon
Posted December 10th, 2009 by wilson
Simply amazing
I arrived in Singapore on Thursday morning. As I said in my last pre-race post, I would be taking care of race matters early on. So that very same afternoon I went to the Expo to claim my race kit.
The SCSM is a very big event, so I was expecting queues, like what happened [...]
Tags: 42.195K, full marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon
Posted December 2nd, 2009 by wilson
Okay, not really. But I will be leaving for Singapore in a few hours.
In four days, I would be running the most important race in my short “sporting” career so far.
It’s funny how the non-racing stuff that I’d be bringing just took half an hour to pack while I fretted about my racing attire and [...]
Tags: Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, Subic International Marathon
