Tuesday, 26 June 2012

My Noob-pace Half Marathon @ Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2012

Muahahaha!
I've regressed into a total noob.
My weight is up in the sky.
My running is down in the drains.
I completed this half-marathon maybe undertrained.
But... completed it, nevertheless!  Muahahaha!

OK, ok.  Here are the details.
The week prior to the event, I did a 1.5 hour LSD on Sunday, and a 6km on Tuesday.
Then rested.
Saturday, traveled to KL with family.
Stopped by Dataran Merdeka to pick up my race pack, and get myself rm30's worth of Power Bars & Gels.
Then, checked in at Lotus Hotel, very conveniently located near Dataran Merdeka.
Vegetated, had lite dinner, and went to bed at about 12am.
I had NO EXPECTATIONS, thus, I slept soundly.
Alarm blared at 5 am, woke up, prepared.
5:45am did the fajr prayers.
5:50am rushed out of the hotel and jogged to the starting line
6:00am starting gun sounded, crowd slowly made it's way to the starting line.
6:06am I crossed the starting line.  WooHoo!

Strategy: 6:1 run:walk all the way.
Felt comfortable, not pushing it at all.
Mind-tune was Fun's "We are Young"
Plenty of water stops.
I did not know where I was heading, just ran with the herd.

At 19km my legs started to feel like wood.  LOL
WALKED...
500m to the finish, ran again, crossed the line as photogenically as I could.  LOL

Time: over 3 hours!
LOL!
NOOB ALERT!

OK, OK, here's the official time, from the website
Official finish: 3:10:17
10k split : 1:28:26
Ranking: 594 out of? 595? LOL


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