A day before the Runnex @ 25 10 K Race will be conducted, I am trying to recall my first race at UP Campus.
I’ve posted my story on “Time Stealer” where there was a big discrepancy (again) on the time registered on my wristwatch and the official results of the race. At that time, I was still using my old reliable Casio Pathfinder watch. The 27th RUNNEX Executive 10K Run was held last 02 December 2007, which was six weeks after I seriously revived my running, and I registered a time of 52:07 minutes. However, the official results showed that I had a time of 52:39 minutes and I had somebody next to me with a time of 52:42 minutes. One of my staff was able to take a picture of me, at least 100 meters from the finish line, and there was nobody at my back which has a distance of 3 seconds from me! Well, this was my first experience on my observations of faulty timing system in our road races in the country.
Surprisingly, in this RUNNEX 10K run, I was able to improve my time by almost 3 minutes from my time with the Animo Run which was held a week before the run. I became to doubt whether the Animo Run was more than 10K or the RUNNEX Run had a shorter distance or I really improved on my performance. We’ll see the answers tomorrow after the run from my GF 305.
Looking at the route in tomorrow’s RUNNEX 10K run, the organizers slightly changed the course (start/finish and direction of the race) but the roads to be covered are the same with the first race I joined. I just hope that they measured the route accurately. The course is relatively flat with very low ascent as compared with the hills in Bayani Road. McKinley Hill, and the portion of the road infront of the Heritage Park. The roads are relatively covered with trees except at the wide road infront of the Oblation. This was where I saw a runner crossing the center island at least 20 yards before the turn-around point.
The 10K course will be a 2-loop run and I am anticipating again to have a faster pace in the 1st loop and decreasing my pace for the last loop. For those who are planning to have negative split time on this course, this will be a nice road race to test your endurance & stamina to push harder on the 2nd loop. Well, for me, I am trying to be consistent with my even-pace strategy for this race. I must admit and as seen in my running workouts for the past two weeks, I did not have any “speed or tempo” runs.
I am sure this race is well-supported with prestigious corporate sponsors as in the past. I could remember that I brought home a lot of sports drinks and many give-aways after the race. The suppor system in the RUNNEX races are really superb and outstanding.
To my fellow runners, good luck and see you tomorrow!
To those who are willing and planning to donate their old running shoes or any rubber shoes, please bring them with you and our booth will be there to receive your donations. Thanks!
Bald Runner 
Br,
The course for the 5k and 10k is the same with 10k runners doing 2 laps. As also confirmed by Looney Runner at Bull Runner’s blog, its the same as the Ictus Run route. Most runners had a slower 10km time. My friends with Garmin 305 got a distance of 10.9 km! You’ll know if they exceeded by just the first “5km” lap. If it registers at 5.4 to 5.45, just adjust your target finish. I measured the course via Google earth and it showed 10.89 km. I didnt bother to measure the course anymore by going there.
Im just targetting to finish below 50mins even with the extra 900 meters. Doing away with the extra U turn in front of the oblation will correct the excess distance.
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mark, there’s no problem with the distance as long as we finish the race without any injury or see somebody else cheating along the way. it is really a bad experience for me to run at UP campus because i always see some “cheaters”. ok then, we’ll target the goal of finishing the race below 50 mins..see you tomorrow.
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Below 50 minutes is an average pace of 4:35. Good luck to us! : )
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Ok, I made a mistake in my google earth measurement as I just got the first lap and multiplied it by 2. On the race itself, we turned right instead of heading straight to the UP theatre to start the 2nd lap.
I dont know why we had so much sweat today. Mainit ba? Socks, shorts, singlet and even my asics. Hay, this is a first!
Br, buti ka pa may nakipicture. Kaala ko kasama na nga ako eh. mwehehehe
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mark, i was also thinking of going back to the start line for the last 5K and i was already on a “panic” mode when i saw that my time was already 25 minutes. talagang mainit na ang panahon ngayon and those sweats were up to my running shoes. hoy, sorry pala, i thought my staff was able to get a picture of us with charlie..hehehe..it’s becoming a habit, the friends of bald runner is becoming bigger in number. see you on the next race!
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Br,
We’ll be seeing each other for the next 4 sundays. Aba, jampacked month for running! Well, we cant be at fault by thinking of going back to the start since the course did say that 10k route is 2 laps.
The incline after the right turn at the Oblation gave me an additional 39 seconds compared to my average pace. I guess its the 2 day LBM. I recently started eating salads as part of my regular diet. That must be it.
Try using SportTracks (FREEWARE po!), its got a lot of tools for analysis especially the summary page (just press the arrow found at the rightmost portion of the summary bar)
Here’s the Sports Tracks Page:
http://www.zonefivesoftware.com/SportTracks/
Download:
http://www.zonefivesoftware.com/SportTracks/Downloads/Download.php?version=2.0.2976
No problem, sucker lang kami for pics. hehehe
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