Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want something badly enough. They are there to keep out the other people. - Randy Pausch ( 1960-2008 )
When I arrived in Hong Kong for the SCHKM, I of course, had to go through the immigration booth at airport.
I didn’t have any worries whatsoever. My passport was already of the convenient machine-readable type(they do give people with non-machine readable passports a hard time sometimes), and I had accumulated enough “stamps” from quite a [...]
Tags: full marathon, Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon
How many road races do we have yearly? 40? 50? Indeed, I daresay that currently, we must be the “run-craziest” country in Asia, or at least in its Southeast region.
Surprisingly however, we are not really in the international marathoning map. Japan has the Tokyo Marathon. Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and Hong Kong have races sponsored by [...]
Tags: full marathon, Philippine International Marathon, Quezon City International Marathon, Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, Subic International Marathon
Or more accurately, two pairs dapat. Or not really.
I must admit, I really didn’t believe in the sense of doing shopping abroad - I doubted that the savings would be that much, if any at all. In many of the countries that I had been to, the prices are usually even higher than here. I [...]
Tags: New Balance 905, shoes, Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon
Some people, I imagine, would find it weird or even hypocritical for one to race abroad and at the same time complain about the registration fees of local races. “You pay so much for races abroad yet complain about expensive races here. Why the double standard? ‘Filipino’ or local does not necessarily mean ‘cheap’ you [...]
Tags: Condura 2010: Run for the Dolphins, registration fees, Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon
8 less, 8 more
4:07:55, or roughly 4:08, is my new Personal Best at the marathon distance. That is 8 minutes less my previous best, and 8 minutes more than the 4:00 “standard”.
Not that it was the only factor that led to the result, but let me just say - wow, this “recover-well-and-space-your-full-marathons” thing really, really [...]
Tags: Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon
Join the race, feel the energy
I think I already mentioned that the field in the SCHKM is going to be strong. I didn’t realize however just the extent of that strength until I ran the last 6 miles of the event.
I make it a point to encourage other runners struggling during the full, especially during [...]
Tags: 42.195K, full marathon, Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon
Pre-race
I arrived in HK for the marathon on Friday evening. I got my race kit from in Victoria Park on Saturday morning, a process which was largely hassle-free, but also significantly less “exciting” than that in Singapore - the SCHKM expo after all, was held weeks before.
I was careful not to repeat the mistakes I [...]
Tags: 42.195K, full marathon, Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon
Perspective
Hong Kong and Singapore are home to the two oldest Standard Chartered Marathons in the region, although there are fledgling events in Bangkok(Thailand) and Kuala Lumpur(Malaysia) - yeah, it is kinda sad that Manila has been left out. Anyway, as such, it can’t be helped for the two events to be compared. There is quite [...]
Tags: Philippine International Marathon, Quezon City International Marathon, Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, Subic International Marathon
Condura, obviously, is February’s main racing event.
Among the distances in the Condura Race, the full is obviously the flagship distance. What the heck, most of the runner-bloggers in my RSS folder(which just about includes the who’s who of the local running world) would be doing the full this February 7.
For March, the main event is [...]
Tags: Bataan Death March 2010, Cebu Marathon, Condura 2010: Run for the Dolphins, Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, TNF 100, upcoming races
Marathons are extraordinarily difficult, but if you’ve got the training under your belt, and if you can run smart, the races take care of themselves.
— Deena Kastor
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