Torturous BBQ 22k LSD

Two weeks to SCKLM 21k.

OK let's recap.

After Malakoff 26k, my immune system again went on holiday. After two days of sniffles, & megadoses of vitamin C, somehow recovered. To aid full recovery, didn't run at all for the whole week to let the immune system fully recover.

Since it's two weeks to go to SCKLM 21k, the plan was a 22k LSD this week and a 14k LSD taper down next week. And I thought today's 22k LSD would be kacang puteh. Ya lah, six days of no running, glycogen stores fully replenished, total rest, etc, etc, right? WRONG!

The smart ass that was me decided, hey let's do Galloway 8:1 instead of 7:1 to make the LSD more intense. And let's run at "Since u been gone" pace, ie kinda blazing.

620 am started out at E-gate.
Stopped at NKQ for rewater. Oops, out of 100 plus. So, 1 bottle mineral water.

Fisherman's sheds near Knowles : timing 1:03:10
Statue of Liberty at Seafood across Motorola: timing 1:15:11
U-turn at Mini-circuits junction : 1:19:55
Fisherman's sheds again : 1:37:11
And here everything fell apart.
At the Seagate Warongs, again, out of 100+. So the smart ass that I was ordered one Nescafe Ais bungkus. And yummy it was too. Mmmmmm! My son would have said "Papa, why you sound like a cow?" Just finishing the kampit of Nescafe Ais took abt 10 mins.
And re-starting the run afterwards, I was rewarded with the Dreaded Side Stitch, all the way to Queensbay.
And the sun was starting to BBQ me. From Seagate warong to Queensbay, I had a good dose of solar exposure.

Queensbay roundabout (near Intel) : 1:59:10

Went past NKQ where it's more shady. No more rewater, the Nescafe Ais was still sloshing in my stomach. Lol.

Galloway timing had all but degenerated into "listen to your body" timing. The stretch along the highway, I was down to run two lampposts (about 100m), walk one (about 50m) all the way back to E-gate. And I was trying to push to finish 22k in 3 hours, lol. Everything was so mental one.

End of run at E-gate: 2:58:00. Haha! Met "beginner qualifying time"!

Post mortem:
1. didn't build up to the LSD. From zero to hero ar?
2. smart ass why change the ratio to 8:1. stick with what works
3. Run LSD at race pace ar?
4. Can run ar after full kampit of Nescafe Ais?
5. Blazing sun - maybe need shades + light topi?

Looks like I need to rebaseline this week for SCKLM...