Heart Beat Rate for MR25 Time Trial
Went for the MR25 time trial just now. Reached there at 4.30 pm and saw carine and her bf, renohtaram and mark. "Tompang" their bags inside my car and we went off to the zig-zag bridge, where i saw phishy, brokenrunner and her siblings, skyver, alvo. meteor and regular MR25 runners like autine evelyn, jj, ian and many more.
Sorry for all the nicknames, but I remember the nicknames more than their real name. I dun know why, but that's how I can remember things. I used my left brain to remember names which I can easily visualise like their nick names. Haha. Sorry guys!
The intresting part of this race, there were alot of fast runners going for this one. I didn't realised that it was time trial for the elite runners. For those who wants to be part of the elite team, they are required to clock a certain timing, which I think below 20 mins or something for guys and 20 mins plus for ladies. I am not sure about the timing, but it wasn't intimidating at all to see all the fast runners. Why? Cos I know I couldn't make it there. They are too fast for me and I am definitely be somewhere in the middle for this race.
I registerd myself and took the number tag number 3091. Stretch my muscles and went off for a slow run with renohtaram around the zig-zag bridge area. For this, I targetted to run below 22 mins. My recent PR for this time trial was 22 mins 22 secs which I did last December. Can I go below than that? Hmmmm. I am not sure leh.
There was this very old man over there, he was talking to me and said that, waah, your body soo fit, this kind of body if do 400 meter and 800 meter good, but long distance, wasted, cos lost alot of energy to carry thsoe heavy body. heh! I agree with you on lost alot of energy with my heavy king kong bodies. But I dun like 400 meter 800 meter distance lah. Not me lah. By the time I reached 200 meter, I panting like crazy oredi. heh. So, short distance is totally out for me. And I run long distance just for the fun of it. Hmmm, that make me wonder, if only my body is smaller in size, I think I can run sub 3 hours for marathon. Cheh!!! Dream on lah!
So everyone gather at the starting point right before 1700 hrs. And the run went off immediately at 1700 hrs sharp. Amazing. I mean it started really exactly at 1700 hrs. The elite runners was soo ahead of me, and that include the ladies. Fuhyoh! Yeah! I saw renuka. One of the uprising long distance runners in singapore I must say. In the early stage of the race, I managed to overtake her, but she managed to overtake me in the later part of the race and left me behind soo far away. hehe. wat to do. me heavy wat, like the old man say. Just imagine a big king kong running. Heh, thats me! But anyway, i think king kong run faster than me.
After 3 mins 50 secs, my heart beat shoot up to 170 bpm. It was totally a fast pace race for me. Really whack myself I guess. Didn't managed to overtake anyone during the race. It's people who overtake me instead. Heh. Stress. Am I that slow or there are goood people running this race. I guess it is the good people running this race. There were alot of them. When I reached at the u-turn point, I was drained out already and my timing was 10 mins 42 secs. Hmmm, I felt that I was sloweer than my last time trial run, the december trial run, i took 10 mins 56 secs and my second time trial was 11 mins 03 secs. Okies, this time round, I ran faster I guessed. And when i ran faster at the early stage, that means, I am going to suffer at the end of it.
The trail has this up and down slopes when u meet the reservoir. It was really tough to run up but down, I just speed up and whack. And at one point where I need to go up the slope, my leg suddenly felt like stopping, felt soooo heavy. I think I am breaking down soon. I tried to maintain a moderate pace. And I managed to overcome it. The shiokz part when i see the last slope which is near the exercise part which is very near to the finishing like. Over there, I burst all out towards the finishing like and my heart beat shoot up as high as 186 bpm. Almost reaching my max heart beat. Talking about heart beat, max heart beat rate = 220 - my age. Therefore, according to the calculation, my max heart beat will 194 bpm. So, it is almost reaching there. Heh.
I reached the finishing point at a timing of 21 mins 52 secs. Waaaah! Soo shioks ah! I managed to beat my personal record. I guessed the last burst of fire really helps my timing. Just imagine, if I didn't burst out the last few hundered meters, I think m timing will be around 22 mins plus, might break my old personal record, but not below 22 mins. Now, you can call me a greyhound! I am categorised under greyhound already! woohoo! WOOF! WOOOF!
After the run, saw those sgrunners and congratulate those who managed to pass the time trial, for those who didn't, it's ok. I mean, the most important thing you enjoy the run and the company over there. I find that, not meeting the timing doesn't make u any lesser than any runner. If u run and u like running, you are already a runner regardless of your timing. Timing like, what the
forummers in sgrunners say that it is just statistics. Not that important to normal runners like us.
Than we took pictures before we go home. As show above from top left, phishy's friend, phishy, renohtaram, brokenrunner, carine, skyver, than seating from left, meteor, alvo, renohtaram, the owner of this blog and fd. Than we went off to toa payoh for our dinner and I ate a bowl of fruits! haha! yeah, i know to detox myself! Than we registered for the Mizuno Wave run at the near by world of sport.
Exit Qoute: "You never really lose, until you quit trying." - Unknown
