Think I'll need to get some professional sports medical help on my knee before it gets any worse.
4 months to go to the next event, so I should have a bit of time to sort my knee out before KL 70.3 comes.
Guess I completed the run around 5:15 this time.
Weather was fine, pretty cooling.
Fueling strategy was ok, gel at every 8km mark and salt stick at every X2km mark.
Pre race logistics went horribly wrong.
Went to fetch Weicheng at our promised time at 3.45am.
Called him umpteen times but he failed to pick up the calls.
Had to leave him behind and went for the race alone at 4am.
Didn't manage to get my routine McD breakfast and realized that my car's fuel was running low so I had to make a detour to top up the tank before going to the race venue.
Reached the car park slightly late and had to take a dump before taking the MRT.
There was only 1 train in like 15mins of wait.
Reached Orchard at 4.53am and the race was supposed to start at 5am.
Tried to go to the sub-5 pen but it was closed and I had to make a big detour to the back of ION to join the rest of the running mob.
It took me about 15 minutes after the start of the race to reach the starting line, and I was consistently stuck behind huge mobs of slow runners.
Could start to feel my left knee acting up again at around 14km, persisted in pushing the run till 23km before I put on my knee support. Managed to last till the exit of ECP at 30km before I finally gave up running on the bad knee.
Had to walk the remaining 12km, but I chose not to chiong at the speed that I did for Taiwan HIM since timing wasn't really important to me for this race, and it's best not to aggravate the knee any further.
Managed to catch Dear and Ryan before the finishing line, and took a few pictures with Ryan, before carrying him all the way to the finish line. I wasn't sure if carrying Ryan with me to the end point will result in a DQ, but it doesn't matter since I had already done this more than 10x!
This is the first time Ryan crossed a race finish line with Daddy!
Daddy is proud!
Pros:
1st time bringing Ryan across the finish line!
Cons:
1) Poor logistics control. Stemmed from trying to fetch Weicheng, which snowballed into a lot of issues later
2) Bad knee strikes again. Need professional medical help
3) Not sure if salt stick is working, but I had cramps on my right quad after ECP exit. This is probably caused by my unbalanced running form due to over reliance on the right leg to carry most of the weight after the bad left knee struck.
Lesson learnt:
Call weicheng before going over to fetch him to make sure he is awake already.
Or I should get him to make his own way to the race. This isn't the first time that I have a late start that messed up my race due to him being late/missing. Either he has to get more serious about racing or I have to drop him as a training partner.
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