Thursday, April 23, 2009

Running with ex-colleagues long Track-24

Went for my usual Thursday run with my ex-colleagues along Track-24. Total distance ran today is 6.5km and time taken is approx 37 minutes (forgot to stop the watch timer, but can read from the graph).

Graph-1 : Speed and Heart Rate vs Distance covered. The first 2 spikes downward on speed was me stopping to wait for CM to catch-up as it was the first time he was running into Track-24. Noted that from 4.5km to 6.5km I was running at higher speed trying to catch up with HT who was ahead of me. Did a short sprint for the final 200 to 300m.

Graph-2 : Same as above but with tabulated data. Average speed for the whole run is 10.2kmph... including the 2 stops and a bit of the walking time at the end of the run (forgot to stop the timer).

Graph-3 : Speed and Heart Rate cs Time. Noted that HR reduced from 180 to 140 bpm within 2.5 minutes, not very fast recovery. Actually the faster recovery the better. Ideally, if it can drop to 120 bpm within 2 minute, that will be considered as very good recovery.

Total of eight people turned up today for the 6.5km Track-24 run.
They are CM Lai, Doris Oh, Allan de T, YS Yun, BK Ong, HT Ng and me. Welcome Allan and Doris for joining the running group.

BK started the run early at 5:15pm. YS Yun ran from his home and met us at the Track-24. Doris and Allan started the run ahead followed by CM, HT and me later as they waited a bit longer to see anyone else might be turning up a bit late.

CM has been joining the run group very consistently for Tue and Thu runs for the past 2 weeks. He started with about 2km run and today he was able to cover closed to 5km. Great improvement. Keep it up.

Allan was trying to get a new pair of running shoes. HT and YS gave their recommendations. YS Yun has privilage membership card with SportsLink which will get 20% discount. Whoever intend to get a new pair of running shoes, please contact YS Yun to borrow his membership card to enjoy the discount.

HT is joining the Triathlon in Bintang in May. I sponsored the 100-Plus drink for this run.

1 comment:

HT Ng said...

Wow above 10km/hr ave. For the 3km mark onwards, look like you can move up the notch. I was feeling the reverse, going was tougher mentally. You have a very strong mental capacity for running. Good going. Sub 5 hrs for your first marathon looks like within reach. :-) . - HT Ng