Ipoh Half Marathon Race Report

This was to be a very good race for me because i had a good preperation and i always thin about the ipoh half marathon everyday till last sunday.

I was happy to see lots of the pacemarkers member and this was the very first time i hang out with them for a long time to really know what i enjoy before every race .yes i saw it al as we eat and eat and eat on saturday evening which the next day was race day ...... in my mine i was just praying that i dont get tommy upset during the race.

Finally after all the eating we went to bed waiting for the big day , i was tired as i havent been getting a good sleep due to the world cup matchs thank God its gonna finish on sunday.wao the hotel we stay no astro so can not watch football at 11pm so sleep , the air con stop working later in the night so wake up cant sleep just thinking of the starting what strategy i will apply before i know it i was sleep i woke up when the alarm sound at 4 : 30am so wake get ready and watch the last part of the match of brazil 0 vs france 1 i was happy because brazil send us home so the too have to go ..

Race day

I did my normal morning routine then went to the starting point met some of my friends there and bonchung from thailand we had a little chat before heading to the starting point. lots of good runners where there so i knew it was going to be very tough to get into the top 20 unless i have to run well . this year the started quite late almost 7 am the watch i was hold i set it then put it in my running pant but for i knew it it fall off so i had to run again with out timing to the end.

Starting races has been my problem all this while i dont want to be in from so that i dont get burn out fast then in the back well i got hold up in traffic lost a lot of time . coming to 600 m from starting i heard a friend say richard you are too slow the i reailise that the first group most be 1500m ahead of me then i pick up the pace on the process after passing and passing runners till 4 km i felt a sharp pains on my thighs then i knew i had injury myself i cant stop i just have to keep running , i lost my watch so i dont know my timing even though there was distance marker at every km, i try to main my posistion as i was unable to pass the few runners in front of me as the legs where getting tired , at 4 km my friend Guna met up with me then we pace together till he drop back to recharge then before i know it he was back with this thailand veteran both of them got pass me but i just follow closely not leting them gap me so much till i pick up the rythem .. at 10km mark took some water then i charge up cos i saw that only 2 person in front of me so if i get close i may pass them later in the race . that was what i did
i pass guna at 11 km try to get him to follow me but i guess he was too tired then so in front was another indian guy like 600m in front so i say i most catch up with him by 15km if not i might not be able to get him .
i chase him so bad that i forgot about the pains i just concentrate on get this guy at 12 km i was close at 13km it was like 100 m at 14 km 40m then at 15km water station i went fast before he took his water i took mine very fast took a bit then i increase my pace there i go .

Next front was super man i beat him in pj then he say he most beat me back in ipoh so with the site of him i chase him at the last turn for the 2nd ribon i caught with him then i look back no one coming with 800 m to go we talk while running for a bit then at 500m i say superman i have to beat u again hehehehe so i took off very fast to the finish .

conclusion

My target time was to do 1'15 but i couldnt as bad strategy contributed to not been able to meet up with this time. but i guess i had a good race even with the injury . now i go on easy training till im heal to get back to race .