Confirmed Running for the Standard Chartered Marathon 7-Dec

Confirmed participants running for the 7-Dec-08 Standard Chartered Marathon Race in Singapore are :-

Tay BH (M) Full Marathon, Chan CS (M) Full Marathon
Kim (M) Full Marathon, Yip YS (M) Full Marathon
Yun YS (M) Full Marathon, Tim Teo (M) Full Marathon
Poh HC (M) Full Marathon

Gan HC (M) Half Marathon, Yeo KJ (M) Half Marathon
Kuan ST Half Marathon, Cecilia Yeoh (M) Half Marathon

Ng HT (M) Quarter Marathon (to run together with son), Ng HT-Junior Quarter Marathon
Phang KW (M) Quarter Marathon, Per SH (M) Quarter Marathon
Hong SC Quarter Marathon , Alena Hong Quarter Marathon
Lim LJ Quarter Marathon
Note :
42.195km - Full Marathon
21.1km - Half Marathon
10km - Quarter Marathon

Free Running Pack for the Standard Chartered Marathon

Went to collect the free running pack today after work. Quite nice goodies. A sports bag with a very nice blue color Adidas running singlet, energy bar, hot-rub, etc.
Adidas, Polar and other shops were there to promote items for sales.
Bought my very first pair of "proper" running shorts from Adidas at $36 after 20% discount.
Also bought 2 sets of souveneuir from ELM, a keychain and a phone chain for $10 per set.

AMK Hot Runners' LUNCH Get Together - 4th Dec '08

Great turn-out for carbo-loading lunch at office cafeteria today for AMK Hot Runners. All together 11 of them. Wonderful and beautiful people (why.... because they are AMK Hot Runners!).

Bech-Andersen Kim; Chan ChengSoon; Yip Yew Seng;

Gan HC; Yeo KengJoon; Phang KokWai;

Yuan Zijing; Yun YowSeng; Tan Huai;

New Catherine; Yeoh William;

Kim target below 4 hours for his full marathon (1st timer).

During his training session he has crossed 42km TWICE! Since he bought his new super duper Polar heart rate, speed and distance monitoring watch, he has clocked in a total fo 799Km on his run since Sept till now. Wow.... 799Km !! More milage than my car has clocked in during the same period.

CS aiming for close to 4 hrs for his full marathon (regular).

YS Yip going to take it easy with walk and run combination for his full marathon (1st timer).

KJ target for less than 3 hrs for his half marathon (1st timer).

HC aiming for less than 2.5 hrs for his half marathon (1st timer).

KW is going to enjoy his 2nd 10km race at his own pace within 68 minutes (lucky number).
HT targeting less than 1 hr his 10km run.

Short running training prior to half marathon race

Went for a short 3km run at targeted marathon race speed of around 10km/hr. Followed by a 1km cool down run.
Will likely be running again tomorrow for a short 3 to 4km and stop running until this Sunday 7-Dec actual race day.
Though running a short distance of 4km, felt a bit tired today. Probably due to last night did not sleep well.

Intervals Running Training

Planning to let the body rest as much as possible this week and do carbo-loading (high complex carbohydrate food intake e.g. spaghetti, bananas, etc).



Went for a short Interval Running practice. Fast race for 100m or 200m and then rest for between 1 to 2 minutes. Then race for another 100m or 200m and rest. Repeated for about 9 times. Then do a final normal run for about 400m.




Since I bought the Garmin heart rate, speed and distance monitoring watch, have ran a total of 65.8km with it. So easy to use and the watch upload wirelessly the running data to the PC. It can display the running records in table and plot the charts automatically. It keeps track of all your historical running data.



5 more days to the 7-Dec Standard Chartered Marathon race.

Reigning world champion marathon runner, Luke Kibet, has confirmed his participation in the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon this year on 7 December. Kibet’s win at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics in Osaka, Japan, where he completed his run in 2:15:59 hours, made him the first Kenyan in 20 years to win a marathon gold medal at the World Championships.