What I don't say out loud, I whisper here:: 2011

Monday, November 28, 2011

Race season 2011 - Run Fever Phase (Run non-stop)

Twilight - Bareno - 2XU - Energizer - Kidney - Hoohathlon - NB15K - SCKLM - NTV7 - Shape - Siemens - Pikom - KOTR - PNM - OCBC - Newton30K - PBIM - Nike

Friday, November 25, 2011

Pikom Run / Putrajaya Night Marathon / OCBC 52KM

Sunday, October 02, 2011

Can I not write anything for this run ? Hahaha! everything was good, result is better than expected, no injury, nice medal, sufficient drinks and banana, met up with fellow runner friends. A nice sunday to begin with, :D

Result? 1hr 35mins. :D with this timing, touch wood Half marathon will be ngam ngam 2hrs, :P

Friday, September 30, 2011

Siemens Run 2011 10KM

Lazy want to write about this run ler, but this is a great run, achieved my official PB for 10KM, 54mins !!! why official ? previously using Nike+ sensor but not accurate, so I denied the 53mins result, this is official. Don't ask me when I can break the 50mins mark, I don't have any plan for this yet.

Saw her again, she is fast, never able to catch up with her pace, I think this is good thing is running, knowing that there is always someone faster than you that you can never reach.:D

Am I interested in her ? LOL! how to chase ?!!!! I am kidding.

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Another 3 months of Journey

I do not know why I am writting this post today and now (in fact I think I should be writting about Siemens Run....), probably I will catch myself being a victim of myself by telling people this story and people in my life will usually tell me, it's nothing to you, you can do it! You always make it!

Haha! I am not sure though. Let's hear me out...

2011 plans didn't go the way I plan them to be, I plan to be busiest before Raya, now when I look at my calender, I wonder what I got myself into.... I don't like to cancel plan, but looks like I definitely going to miss one event, at least!

Assuming I am talking to myself (which I do most of the time) and no body really reads my blog anyway, let me summarise what is coming in the next 3 months:

2/10 : Adidas KOTR 16.8KM
9/10 : Pikom 7KM
15/10 : Putrajaya Night marathon 21KM
16/10 : OCBC Cycling 52KM
17-26/10 : Rome-Siena-Florence-Pisa-Rome
30/10 : Newton 30KM
6/11 : Shaney's Wedding
10-12/11 : APCC
13/11 : Powerman Sprint
11-13/11 : LP148 2nd Weekend
15-17/11 : APaCE Meeting
17/11 : Basic Guest event
20/11 : PBIM 21KM
27/11 : Desa Park City 10KM
3/12: Shin Yee's wedding
16-18/12 : LP148 3rd Weekend
18/12 : Malakoff 12KM

Looking at the schedule now, I definitely going to miss Powerman and 1 day of APCC, Malakoff is out too. If Wowday happens on 29/10 or 30/10, Newton 30KM will be out too.

Here is the part I hate the most:

I DON'T WANT TO MISS POWERMAN & NEWTON 30KM !!!

Both are the new benchmark I am committed to set for myself, my 1st Duathlon and 1st official 30KM, and Malakoff is one of my favourite torturing run !

And I never expect to have 8 person in my team for this LP, what I am most afraid of is I can't be enough for 8 of them, this is very stretchy and stressful !!! ARGHH!!!

OK, i think I am OK dy. -.-!

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Review on Saucony Kinvara

I finally get to test run my Kinvara after bought from Choi few days back as add on to my MR759. The base is narrower and the heel is lower compared to MR759. The color is striking, I got lots of attention in the park this morning, :D

This minimalist is really light and even after 10KM I still hardly feel its weight, unlike my 759, after 10KM, I will start feeling its weight dragging me, my on air time will become shorter and my steps become smaller. Kinvara is smaller size than many shoes at the same size number, as u can see from the pictures, my 759 is also US7, but Kinvara is relatively smaller and I actually feel tight at the fore foot.

759 has a wider base and Kinvara has a narrow base, for underpronation runner like me who land on outer part of my foot and launch my step with my smaller toes, I had a hard time in getting my steps right. I knew it was tight but I never thought it will affect my run so much that my 3 smaller toes feel like hanging outside the shoes, with 759 I can land anyway and still be able to launch my step on the wide base.

But, this may not be a bad news, after few KM with Kinvara, I realise I do not have to conciously remind myself to land on the ball of the foot anymore, the shoes actually guided me to land more on the ball and launch my step with bigger toes, in others words, it corrected my running pattern somehow. I can feel that I am using more core muscles involved in walking and jumping as opposed to previously I will feel some muscle soreness for using muscles that I don't normally use in walking.

It was supposed to be a warm up run for the shoes but I managed to clock 58 mins for 10KM, and I ended the run at 11.4KM , 1hr 6mins. Good news is, I was running faster and faster after 7KM adapting to the shoes, which means sub 55mins is possible for 10KM. And I stilll feel like I can go further, but I won't want to do that with new shoes.

Post run feeling is that the shoes is tight that my baby toes got compressed and squeezed during run and felt some numbness, now it feel abit painful, I probably need to plaster it the next time I run. No muscles soreness so far, probably I can only tell tomorrow. This shoes is now proven to improve running for short distance (10-12KM), I will try it out again for 15KM before the KOTR, not too sure it a shoes this tight is good for 21KM. But it is officially my race shoes now.

Recommendation : Any runner plan to buy this shoes probably want to consider buying a 1/2-1 size bigger, my foot is wider at toes area not at phalanges area ( which means toes will bend inward ), I feel that my ring and baby toes are compressed and do not have much space to move. It has some cushion at the arc area (see picture compared with 759), thus can guide runner to land more on the ball and help to absord the impact which normally underpronator use outer feet to do the work which may result in injury in long run.

P/S : if any runner has the about same size as me (UK6-6.5) may contact me to try run with this shoes ( not just test wear ). :D