Recapping My Races

I’ve always had the interest in running but I’ve never really put much thought about it until polytechnic, when I decided to join the SP track team then, just for the fun of it. But it took off from there and my interest turned serious

Well anyway I’ve never looked back in despair at the times I’ve immersed myself into a sport that have yielded so much pain, I mean literally, the agony and empty promises but at the end of the day, I felt I’m always in control … as the sport has given me the avenue to exercise my control freak fetish. Hehehe. So I guess it’s a perfect match

Anyway I manage to set aside some videos I found the last time round when I cleaned my hard-drive. And look what I’ve found. Videos of my races dated as back as 2004. Aaah the good times. Let’s recap

IVP 2004, 28.8.2004 (400m Heats, 51.70s)

It was my first ever IVP donning NTU jersey. I ran a relaxed race here.
I was progressing well and was aiming for a sub-50 seconds timing that year until I kena my hamstring injury

IVP 2004, 18.9.2004 (400m Finals, 51.8s)

It was a bad race, I let the front runners pull away and I guess I got tense up when I got worried.
Notice my shoulders are hunched and I look in pain, face contorted … hehe

IVP 2004, 18.9.2004 (4x100m Finals, 43.8s)

Look at Lane 7, excellent first leg. During leg two, I couldn’t capitalise on the lead and even slipped it abit. Can’t do much about it, I was a 11 second runner while the Lane 8 was NUS, a 10 second plus runner. I got no speed

Wings Open 2005, 9.6.2005 (400m Heats, 52.30s)

I think this was the year I was coming back into my injury, before re-injuring it again. Kanasai. Well the race, I blasted the first 200m in early 23 seconds. So that was too fast and I died in the last 100m. I was literally hentak-kaki

Singapore Open 2005, 25.9.2005 (400m Finals, 52.90s)

Again I must learn to pace myself. If I recalled this race, the first 300m I did an early 36 seconds! Yes amazing, my personal best in my race-pace, haha! Anyway the last part you can see me dying like crazy. I’m in black

IVP 2007, 20.10.2007 (400m Heats, 53.35s)

Oooh my last race for this year. It was a pretty relaxed pace. I cruised most of the time. I got through the finals and did 52. Not my season best, but still, it got me there. The race above, I had a quick 100m, cruise to 200m mark, I opened up at 250m and clawed plus pumping my arms the last 100m. That’s pacing. It took me 3 years to learn it!

Well that’s some of my races I’ve ran. I’ll put up more if I manage to find some more. Any comments or observation on my run? Maybe you can share you videos of interest

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