Running flat.....

19 August - 2.4km sports for life
20 august - 10km New Balance Real Run

fell flat in both events .... hardly the kind of results I visualised myself getting..... the sports for life was a real disappointment 'cos I started the last round at 11'30" & thought there is a fair chance of getting gold (<13min) if I sprinted real hard ... but stitches came a calling and my "gold" was gone in the wind..... to add to the misery, Zahed said there's no more this yr...

the NB was hardly any better..... despite the 2 training runs, I failed miserably to beat my record: 1 hr 26min instead of bettering the 1hr 19min last year... my first race in 10km in this kind of terrain.... but at least it was a learning experience, because I know now that good runners must have strong abdominals, esp when the long distances mean that your running posture is likely to sway like the tree as your legs eat up the miles and when your body is tired, the legs will follow suit.....

All these great conclusions came just 1 day before I borrowed the May 05 edition of Runners' World which begs the question......

so why didn't I read more to learn from others' mistakes??