Marathon

Finished my 5th marathon on Sunday.
Broke through the 4.30hr international standard and achieved 4.15hr this year.

Pretty good results considering this is about roughly 25min improvement from last year's timing.

But I have to admit that I was quite lazy in this year's run.
Always had the lazy mindset of holding back a bit so that it will be easier for me to break the record again the next year. (I did the same thing last year)

I was quite surprised at my speed that I have managed to clock up to around 11kmh for the first 33km, which subsequently ended up in me walking for most of the later part since I will break the 4.30hr even by walking for the rest of the journey.

The good thing about this year's run for me is that I have finally felt my breakthrough in the legendary invisible wall. My legs used to give way at around 30+km in the past runs, but I'm feeling ok this year, and could have ran all the way to the end without walking (if not for being lazy).

So probably next year I'll be expecting to clear the 4hr mark, which is easily achievable if I can hit somewhere near this year's performance.


Will post some stuff on my HK trip later.
Need to catch up with work first..