Posted July 17th, 2010 by wilson
Wow, it’s been a while. What can I say - life got in the way of blogging(not necessarily running). I think I’d be able to do better in the coming weeks, blogging-wise. For now though, forgive this post that’s about a race that’s already two weeks old.
As I said before, a lot of things obviously [...]
Tags: 34th National Milo Marathon, Eng'gfinity: The Engineering Centennial Run, fight, Manila Eliminations, Quezon City International Marathon, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, Subic International Marathon
Posted May 25th, 2010 by wilson
Like many others who have been racing for more than a year, the rise in registration fees changed my racing and training routines:
1. On Overracing.
Even Dr George Sheehan in his book, “Dr. Sheehan On Running” identified overracing as something that athletes must be constantly on the lookout for. Overracing brings either injury or even [...]
Tags: Dr. Sheehan on Running, George Sheehan, injury, registration fees, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon
Posted April 13th, 2010 by wilson
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
Posted March 2nd, 2010 by wilson
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
Posted February 25th, 2010 by wilson
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
Posted February 3rd, 2010 by wilson
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
Posted January 10th, 2010 by wilson
Last Wednesday, January 6, I “celebrated” the first “monthsary” for the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon, which was held on December 6 last year. It also marked the end of my self-imposed month-long abstinence from running, which I carried out to be able to recover from an injury received from the consecutive marathons that marked the [...]
Tags: injury, Philippine Star Celebrity Run, Rizal Day 20-miler, Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon
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 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
