Monthly Archives: March 2010

The One About Swimming and Running

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Well, to put it out in a short and sweet and concise way, I finished the Ateneo Aquathlon Lite yesterday. It was a 400 meter swim with a 3 kilometer run right after. I felt like throwing up just before the race but thank the good Lord up above that he gave me the power to complete it.

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That is me just before the race. A big thank you to Tricia for coming with me. I wouldn’t have been able to complete the race without your moral support.

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That’s me swimming with my knees all over the place. I need to practice my swim form more.

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I was too fast for the camera. Tricia barely even got me in the view finder. That’s me barely out of transition and into the 3 kilometer run.

Fast forward 3 kilometers later and this is me:

At The Finish That is me exhibiting exhaustion, disorientation, the feeling being lost, at the brink of passing out, oh a camera pointed at me, and epilepsy. I enjoyed it a lot.

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My face gets all crumply when I smile. I’d love to do another aquathlon soon. But I need to improve my swim stroke more.

Running: Running at a Sub 5:30 Pace

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It was training day number two for me yesterday and as the plan advised me, I had to do another 8k at 5:45 pace. I planned to do the same route again because I didn’t have a chance to map out a new one. I warmed up. I did a little stretching. Before I knew it, I was at it again trying to run 8 kilometers at a 5:45 pace. As much as I wanted to run the exact same route, traffic conditions yesterday and the fact that I needed to run at a constant pace, made me veer away. I wasn’t actually sure I was going to be able to run 8 kilometers but I just kept on running.

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It turns out that I only ran 6.76 kilometers. Over a kilometer short of my desired distance. As I reached the end of my run and as I glanced on my stopwatch, I knew I was off my planned distance. It was either I became absolutely fast or I ran a shorter distance because my clock only read 36 minutes. It was still a good run though because I was able to run at a pace of below 5:30 per kilometer. It was short but it was still a good run.

BTW, Unilab photovendo photos are up! Here’s me looking like an epic epileptic balding cancer patient.

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If you’re not there, maybe I took a photo of you!

Running: 8 Kilometers @ 5:45 Pace

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Training day number one.

It was an easy 8 kilometer run at a 5:45 minute per kilometer pace. I don’t know why the plan called it an easy 8 kilometer run because it wasn’t easy at all.

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Since I was lacking the technology to track my distance real time while I was running, I plotted this 8 kilometer route just before I went down the office to change and start my run. It was gravely stupid of me to include hills in it because it was a speed run. Hills would have greatly affected my pace and finish on tempo but I ran it nonetheless.

I did a short warm up run just before doing the speed run. I did a few stretching exercises and then I was off. Without any means to track my pace, I just relied on the stop watch of my phone. I just kept on running. I maintained a pace that I would normally run on races. It was something that I have never done before in a training run. If I want that sub 2 in the 21 kilometer race at Globe, I must train for it.

I was out of Mckinley hill at around 22+ minutes in my stopwatch. That was a little over 4 kilometers in under 23 minutes. I was inside my target pace of 5:45.

It was still an easy run up until Bonifacio High Street. When I got two my final two laps around BHS, I felt really tired. My shoulders were aching already. A crystal clear sign that I lacked coretraining. I tried to keep my pace up but from my estimate, I could have slowed down to a 6 minute per kilometer pace.

I could not remember the last time I had sore shoulders from my run. I guess this means that I need to do more include situps and core exercises in my training. I hate doing those things. It’s another “EASY” 8 kilometer run at 5:45 pace again tonight. Wish me luck.