Saucony Passion Run 10km 8th July 2007

The first Saucony Passion run was held on 8th July 2007. I signed up for the 10km men veteran category. The race was very well organised being their first time. Atleast some 4000 runners participated. SM Goh was there to grace the event.

My category started at 8:15am. They flagged off each category in different timing (wave). I ran as usual however my Polar RS800sd and the foot pod was not giving me any pace number and timing. The Polar watch showed the time 00:00:00 and there is no pace logged at all. I tried a few time to meddle the watch setting while running and thus was distracted and slowed down. I remembered what Ultrman told me "don't look at your watch, just run and not be distracted". So I decided to ignore. It was hard for me as I normally trained with my Polar RS800sd and the foot pod to get my pace and also to watch my pace whether I am going to fast or slow. My pace is about 5:30 min.

Finally at the 5km U-turn, it was some 26 minutes plus. So I have another 26 to 27 minutes to go to complete the next 5km. Before I make the U-Turn at 5km, I saw Ultraman on the opposite side of the path. So U-Turn is near. I saw the U-turn and picked pace and race towards it. It was 26 minutes.

Now I continued on and skipped the next water point to race back.

I saw a lady and sensed that she is a runner and decided to use her as my pace. At one stage we were overtaking each other and I finally decided to just slow down and trial her behind.

Approached the finishing line with 100 metres ahead, I race towards it strong. Looked up for the timing but couldn't find any timing clock. My watch was showing 9:10am. I guessed I have finished the race in 55mins.

While queuing up for the goodies bag, the lady whom I was following in the run was infront of me. I say "hi to her" and we chit chat and got to know her name is Evon. She participated in triathlon. Why I was trailing her was because she was wearing a Polar watch and thus must have her timing checked. I asked her how was her timing. She replied 55minutes.

So, confirmed my timing is 55minutes. The result of the Saucony Passion run came up the next day and my timing was 55minutes :00seconds.


Well, a good run.

Cheers !