10k 35 minutes的八卦，Yahoo名人娛樂都在討論

***Best Malaysian in Men’s 10KM in SCKLM***

Managed to defend my title again today, came back second place Overall with the time of 33:38 minutes (3:22 min/km). Better my timing for more than 2 minutes compare to last year, 35:43 minutes.

Happy to be back and defend my title again for two years in a row! 33:38 minutes is my Season Best this year also my Best 10K timing in Malaysia. I did 33:26 minutes last year during the Sundown Taipei 2017. 12 seconds of my Personal Record and excited to race hard today and make an attempt to chase the Kenyan in front of me.

Still couldn’t believe I did 5,000M on two days ago and 10,000M yesterday at 3pm in UNIMAP and thankfully I managed to came back on time this morning to race SCKLM 10KM.

I missed my train last night as I saw the wrong timing, and I took the bus at 7.30pm. Arrived at KL Sentral this morning at 3.45pm, took the LRT and back to Kelana Jaya. Thanks to She Yong for fetching me back and went out again to take the LRT and went to the race site.

Both legs left only 50% after the 10,000M yesterday at 3pm, running at 35 Degree Celsius. Today’s performance was all about mental toughness. Kept thinking I am the Best Malaysian last year and the reason I came here today is to defend my title. Focus on my target, charge down the street, pay attention on my running technique, the metronome beating at 185 spm was set it on my Garmin Fenix 5X before the flag off, kept the rhythm going, tap tap tap, arm swing to quicken my stride to match the metronome.

Starting off running side by side with Siva, follow closely behind the Kenyan. Both of us work together, exchange the lead after the first 3km, my turn to lead. Doing our best to take him down. After 6km, I was on my own. Dig deep and trying hard to reduce the gap as the distance widen up after that.

Kept looking at his back all the way until the last km. Closing down the gap with the last surge, but the distance is too far away between both of us.

It was really a good course today, I felt strong even though with the 15km from the past two days. Mentally boost myself up, kept thinking of “To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you are not, pretend you are.” - Muhammad Ali. One of the factor that boost my performance today is the Awards I won yesterday being the Best Male Athlete in Track&Field with Double Gold I won from 5,000M and 10,000M.

Thank you so much for the recognition and everyone for the continuous support, cheers on me while running this morning! Thank you to all my sponsors as well especially Beet It Sport, Actigin, Garmin Malaysia, Lifeline ID, Life Engineering, LILA Exogen, and also to my parents who came and support this morning.

#SCKLM2018 #BestMalaysian

Week 1 Day 7, AM

"The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die." - Steve Prefontaine.

Joined Larian Bersama Bomba this morning. Tough field as usual as what I predicted. Cheapest race with great cash prize, which attract lots of strong runner to join it.

Step into the starting pent, saw a group of elite runners, season runner like Prabudass, Rosnizam, Muhaizar, Affindi, Thevan, Vasathan, which I never beat them before in any road race. So I talk to myself, today is a good day to die and race for a Personal Best for my 10km since the field are strong, filled with elites.

Race the first km follow closely behind Thevan, Prabudass and Vasathan. Muhaizar and Rosnizam came up and lead as well. I am in 6th position that time.

After few km, still follow closely behind Muhaizar, Rosnizam and Vasathan. Thevan and Prabudass increase their pace and pull a big gap. We were in the second group.

After 5km, Vasathan dropped out. I got fifth at that moment, still stick with Muhaizar and Rosnizam. When comes to uphill, I increase my pace and try to overtake them and lead. Few not really steep hills but quite a long one and it gave me advantage to pull a gap between me and Muhaizar, Rosnizam.

Thevan and Prabudass is about 200-300m away, still can see their back. Keep on maintain the pace and gear up, trying to reduce the gap but failed to do so.

Feeling great when thinking of getting third place and manage to take a lead from them. Mentally recharge and turning to jalan parlimen. Gear up and doing my best to speed up and saw one of my friend, Sharon Chow then Teck Wai on the other side.

Just doing my best maintain the pace trying to at least break the sub 35 barrier for the 10km. I knew is over distance for this race, and so I just keep on stepping on the pedal and speed up.

Crossing the line at 36:47 minutes with a distance of 10.53km. Clocked a 34:47 minutes for 10km! A Personal Best for me! Felt so great after I saw my GPS watch showed a new achievement, Fastest 10k!

Felt so so happy with that PB and also a bonus 3rd placing for me. Woohoo.

Thanks to all my sponsor, #GarminMalaysia #LifelineID #NulivScience

#SohTheSpeedster

Throwback 3 years ago at Standard Chartered KL Marathon 10KM Men Open.
37:37 min in 2016
35:43 min in 2017
33:37 min in 2018
What's in 2019?
I remembered back in 2016, I didn't have a great race in that day, but I gave my best effort and fight till the end. I told myself that day, I will be back and improve the timing.

In 2017, I came back as the Fastest Malaysian (behind a Kenyan) and this time an almost 2 min improvement from 2016.

In 2018, I fight again and this time I came back once again as the Fastest Malaysia (behind the same Kenyan) and a 4 min improvement from 2016 also my best 10k time in Malaysia (PR at Sundown Taipei 10k 33:26 min, running at 14°C).

So what's in 2019? T-50 Days to SCKLM.

SCKLM 10km Speed

Body condition not in shape after the AUG and the Taiwan Trip. Body have not fully recover from the 5,000m and 10,000m events two weeks ago. Have been racing a lot and body have not recover from all this road races and track events. That's the important of off season.

Not able to keep up with my training partner AwanRun after 3km. The first three km are fast but after that I felt a little dizzy and eventually slow down the pace. Just feel like giving up at the beginning when all these hits me. Thinking of slow myself down and aim to finish the race no matter what.

Do not want to have another DNF in my running career. Nike We Run KL is the one and only DNF race in my life. And so finish the race with 7th position in Men Open category. 37:37 minutes for a 10.29km clocked on my Garmin Forerunner 630 GPS watch.

Thanks to all my sponsor who came into my running career. I believe I will be back stronger.

SCKLM 2017 10km speed gonna be my target race for next year. I will be back. Need to climb up from where I fall.

Anything is possible – Just hard work and grafting. – Mo Farah

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