2011 Summary
1) Malakoff Penang, 26km, Mar 27, 3:08.41@7.23"/km (2010 3:32)
2) Energizer Night Race (ENR), 21km (actual : 19.82km), Apr 16, 2:21.35@7.09"/min (2010 2:52)
3) Larian Hari Keputeraan Sultan Azlan Shah (LHKSAS), 14km (14.65km), May 22, 1:32:32@6:18"/km, #215/464 (Men's Open), Overall #367
4) SPCA Charity Run, 10km (9.34km), May 29, 53:34@5:51"/km
5) SCKLM, 21km (21.46km), Jun 27, 2:18:31@6:45"/km
6) SAFRA Bay Run, 10km (10.3km), Sep 4, 54:38@5:19"/km, #351/3488 (overall field), #8th Malaysian runner, #46/528 (Mens Master)
7) Tourism Taiping Heritage Run (TTHR), 21km (21.04km), Sep 11, 1:58:25@5:38"/km, #54 for Men's Junior Veteran
8) Adidas King of The Road (KOTR), 16.8km (16.71km), Oct 2, 1:37:30@5:50"/km, #428
9) KWYP City Run, 10km (8.09km) , Oct 16, 41:06@5:05"/km
10) PJ Half Marathon, 21km (20.76km), Oct 30, 2:13:31@6:26"/km, #175 / 337 Men's Veteran
11) Rock to Rock Run, 3.8k (4km), Nov 13, 18:43@4:41"/km
12) Penang Bridge International Marathon (PBIM), 42km (43km), Nov 20, 4:58:22@6:56"/km, 242/1190
13) Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore (SCMS), 21km (21.17km), Dec 4, 2:10:52@6:11"/km,
#929, top6% of the field
2012 Look Ahead
Not many races planned in 2012 as it's still early and i am trying to limit to the number of races but focus on quality (=better timing) and also to better optimize my weekend trips.. 2012 will be a crucial year for my gal, so will imit the travels..
What I have so far..
1) Jan 8th - Multi Purpose Insurance Run 2012 (MPIR) 12km - Padang Merbok (registered)
2) Mar ? - Malakoff Penang 26km
3) May 26th - Sundown Marathon 42km (registered)
4) Jun 24th - SCKLM Marathon 42km
No plans for Bali Marathon in April, Phuket Marathon in June though I would have loved to go to SCBM on 12 Feb 2012 !
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Sunday, December 18, 2011
Monday, November 7, 2011
Geoffrey Mutai Wins New York Marathon With Course Record
Geoffrey Mutai breaking the tape in the record time of 2:05:06. More Photos »
By LIZ ROBBINS
Published: November 6, 2011
The footsteps keep getting faster, pounding like a drumbeat on the city streets. From Boston to London to Chicago this year, Kenya’s marathon men have smashed course records in frenzied fashion, and they drilled the world record in Berlin.
Would New York, the final and hilliest of all the major marathons, allow a similarly blistering pace?
Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya, the self-coached 30-year-old who shocked the running world to start the season in Boston, made the question rhetorical on Sunday. On a glistening, windless day that seemed made for marathoning, Mutai flew over five New York bridges, surging in the final six miles to shatter a decade-old course record by more than two and a half minutes.
Mutai captured the 2011 New York City Marathon in 2 hours 5 minutes 6 seconds — and the stampede did not stop when he broke the tape. His countryman Emmanuel Mutai, 27 and no relation, finished second in 2:06:28. Tsegaye Kebede, 24, of Ethiopia finished third in 2:07:14.
The official margin of victory, 1:22.31, was the largest in the race since 1992.
The three men each earned a $70,000 bonus for breaking the course record (2:07:43, set by Tesfaye Jifar of Ethiopia in 2001). Emmanuel Mutai collected an additional $500,000 for winning the World Marathon Majors with his strong performances over the last two years. Geoffrey Mutai won a total of $200,000 for his victory and the record run on a day in which an event-record 47,438 competitors started.
“Although I won, the race was not easy,” Geoffrey Mutai said. “I was not expected to win at that time.”
But he was favored, given his history. About seven months ago, he obliterated the hilly Boston Marathon course record in a world-best time of 2:03:02. It was an eye-popping mark in a roaring tailwind that was, however, ultimately not sanctioned as a record because of the course’s elevation loss and because Boston’s start and finish were separated by more than 50 percent of the race distance.
Running a marathon faster than anyone in history (Patrick Makau of Kenya set the world record, 2:03:38, with the aid of pacesetters in Berlin in September) yet being told that his race was not worthy of a record deflated and elated Mutai. Those dual emotions, he said, motivated him through his training runs in the remote trails of the Rift Valley in western Kenya.
By winning in Boston and in New York — on hilly courses where pacesetters are not permitted — Mutai allowed that he might have erased any doubts about his talents.
“I am happy now because even although it was not recognized, I’m happy to be at that level,” he said.
Meb Keflezighi of the United States, the Olympic silver medalist in 2004 and the winner in New York in 2009, marveled at Mutai’s race.
“To run that fast is pretty incredible,” he said.
On Sunday, Keflezighi stayed with the leaders through 19 miles, then started to feel his stomach churning. He stopped in Mile 22 to vomit but still finished in 2:09:13, his fastest marathon. In this swift field, it was good for sixth place.
Keflezighi said he was thrilled to finish the race healthy, because he plans to compete in the United States Olympic marathon trials Jan. 14 in Houston, hoping to make his third Olympic team.
New York was an unofficial Olympic trials for the Kenyans. Officials from the country’s federation traveled to New York to make a decision, ostensibly on a final runner, as Makau, as the world-record holder, and Abel Kirui, the world champion, seemed to be guaranteed to make the team.
But are Geoffrey Mutai’s accomplishments in the enigmatic world of Kenyan athletics enough to put him on the Olympic team?
“If they select me, I’ll be there,” he said after the race.
With patience and grace, Mutai ran in front of a tightly packed group for the first 16 miles. The pack thinned from 11 to 10, and by the time the men hit First Avenue, there were seven, including last year’s winner, Gebre Gebremariam of Ethiopia.
But crossing the Willis Avenue Bridge at Mile 20, Mutai broke away on Alexander Avenue in the Bronx. He charged off the Madison Avenue Bridge into Harlem, and from there, he attacked the incline of Fifth Avenue and entered Central Park with a 55-second lead.
“We all worked together — and then it was time to push it,” he said. “For me, I was trying to run my own race.”
For 10 years, Mutai has been his own coach. In 2004, he made a painful decision when he was not winning enough to afford treatment for a leg injury. He went to work cutting trees for Kenya Power, the nation’s utility company.
In the last two years, his own power has been sizzling. He said he wondered if he could break the world record on a flatter course.
“I have that in my mind, if it was another course, maybe I can do it,” he said.
As for the role of pacesetters in aiding world records, he said bluntly, “I don’t think if those people can come here and run here, if they can break the world record here.”
Mary Wittenberg, the chief executive of the New York Road Runners, which oversees the race, said she believed someone would one day run 2:04 in New York.
“I think to take two-plus minutes off that record says a lot more about Geoffrey Mutai than it says about our course,” she said.
A world record has not been set in New York in three decades: the American Alberto Salazar ran the race in 2:08:13 in 1981. But that era is long gone. Now there is a brave, blistering crop of runners who are threatening to run under two hours.
“The record is still going down and down,” Emmanuel Mutai said. “I see maybe it would not take too much more time, maybe after three years or one year, the record will be broken again. Even if it is not me, the other generation is coming.”
But right now, Emmanuel and Geoffrey, especially, are not looking back.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/sports/geoffrey-mutai-wins-new-york-marathon-with-course-record.html?pagewanted=2
By LIZ ROBBINS
Published: November 6, 2011
The footsteps keep getting faster, pounding like a drumbeat on the city streets. From Boston to London to Chicago this year, Kenya’s marathon men have smashed course records in frenzied fashion, and they drilled the world record in Berlin.
Would New York, the final and hilliest of all the major marathons, allow a similarly blistering pace?
Geoffrey Mutai of Kenya, the self-coached 30-year-old who shocked the running world to start the season in Boston, made the question rhetorical on Sunday. On a glistening, windless day that seemed made for marathoning, Mutai flew over five New York bridges, surging in the final six miles to shatter a decade-old course record by more than two and a half minutes.
Mutai captured the 2011 New York City Marathon in 2 hours 5 minutes 6 seconds — and the stampede did not stop when he broke the tape. His countryman Emmanuel Mutai, 27 and no relation, finished second in 2:06:28. Tsegaye Kebede, 24, of Ethiopia finished third in 2:07:14.
The official margin of victory, 1:22.31, was the largest in the race since 1992.
The three men each earned a $70,000 bonus for breaking the course record (2:07:43, set by Tesfaye Jifar of Ethiopia in 2001). Emmanuel Mutai collected an additional $500,000 for winning the World Marathon Majors with his strong performances over the last two years. Geoffrey Mutai won a total of $200,000 for his victory and the record run on a day in which an event-record 47,438 competitors started.
“Although I won, the race was not easy,” Geoffrey Mutai said. “I was not expected to win at that time.”
But he was favored, given his history. About seven months ago, he obliterated the hilly Boston Marathon course record in a world-best time of 2:03:02. It was an eye-popping mark in a roaring tailwind that was, however, ultimately not sanctioned as a record because of the course’s elevation loss and because Boston’s start and finish were separated by more than 50 percent of the race distance.
Running a marathon faster than anyone in history (Patrick Makau of Kenya set the world record, 2:03:38, with the aid of pacesetters in Berlin in September) yet being told that his race was not worthy of a record deflated and elated Mutai. Those dual emotions, he said, motivated him through his training runs in the remote trails of the Rift Valley in western Kenya.
By winning in Boston and in New York — on hilly courses where pacesetters are not permitted — Mutai allowed that he might have erased any doubts about his talents.
“I am happy now because even although it was not recognized, I’m happy to be at that level,” he said.
Meb Keflezighi of the United States, the Olympic silver medalist in 2004 and the winner in New York in 2009, marveled at Mutai’s race.
“To run that fast is pretty incredible,” he said.
On Sunday, Keflezighi stayed with the leaders through 19 miles, then started to feel his stomach churning. He stopped in Mile 22 to vomit but still finished in 2:09:13, his fastest marathon. In this swift field, it was good for sixth place.
Keflezighi said he was thrilled to finish the race healthy, because he plans to compete in the United States Olympic marathon trials Jan. 14 in Houston, hoping to make his third Olympic team.
New York was an unofficial Olympic trials for the Kenyans. Officials from the country’s federation traveled to New York to make a decision, ostensibly on a final runner, as Makau, as the world-record holder, and Abel Kirui, the world champion, seemed to be guaranteed to make the team.
But are Geoffrey Mutai’s accomplishments in the enigmatic world of Kenyan athletics enough to put him on the Olympic team?
“If they select me, I’ll be there,” he said after the race.
With patience and grace, Mutai ran in front of a tightly packed group for the first 16 miles. The pack thinned from 11 to 10, and by the time the men hit First Avenue, there were seven, including last year’s winner, Gebre Gebremariam of Ethiopia.
But crossing the Willis Avenue Bridge at Mile 20, Mutai broke away on Alexander Avenue in the Bronx. He charged off the Madison Avenue Bridge into Harlem, and from there, he attacked the incline of Fifth Avenue and entered Central Park with a 55-second lead.
“We all worked together — and then it was time to push it,” he said. “For me, I was trying to run my own race.”
For 10 years, Mutai has been his own coach. In 2004, he made a painful decision when he was not winning enough to afford treatment for a leg injury. He went to work cutting trees for Kenya Power, the nation’s utility company.
In the last two years, his own power has been sizzling. He said he wondered if he could break the world record on a flatter course.
“I have that in my mind, if it was another course, maybe I can do it,” he said.
As for the role of pacesetters in aiding world records, he said bluntly, “I don’t think if those people can come here and run here, if they can break the world record here.”
Mary Wittenberg, the chief executive of the New York Road Runners, which oversees the race, said she believed someone would one day run 2:04 in New York.
“I think to take two-plus minutes off that record says a lot more about Geoffrey Mutai than it says about our course,” she said.
A world record has not been set in New York in three decades: the American Alberto Salazar ran the race in 2:08:13 in 1981. But that era is long gone. Now there is a brave, blistering crop of runners who are threatening to run under two hours.
“The record is still going down and down,” Emmanuel Mutai said. “I see maybe it would not take too much more time, maybe after three years or one year, the record will be broken again. Even if it is not me, the other generation is coming.”
But right now, Emmanuel and Geoffrey, especially, are not looking back.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/sports/geoffrey-mutai-wins-new-york-marathon-with-course-record.html?pagewanted=2
Saturday, January 1, 2011
First day of the new year - 1.1.11 !! Hello 2011 !!
One of my year's resolutions is to run a total of 200km this year.. I ran 31km in 2009 (mostly 2H 2009 when I started running), 84km in 2010... To hit 200km, I must run, say almost 10 half-marathons. So obviously, I need to run a couple full-marathons. The plan is run all half-marathons and the big 3 marathons - KL Standard Chartered Marathon (around july), PBIM (Nov) and Singapore Standard Chartered marathon (Dec).
My 2 assignments will be:
1) Mar 13 - Bareno Run. I have registered for 21km (RM50).. Stadium Bukit Jalil is the starting and end point. This one still TBD since it clashes with my cousin's wedding !!
2) April 16 - Energizer Night Race. I have also signed up for 21km (RM55). This is going to be an interesting route as it runs 2 loops inside the Formula 1 circuit at Sepang before going round the Sepang area. I have also managed to bring in a running partner in the form of Dr Ooi and we plan to drive down and come back on the night itself.
One of my year's resolutions is to run a total of 200km this year.. I ran 31km in 2009 (mostly 2H 2009 when I started running), 84km in 2010... To hit 200km, I must run, say almost 10 half-marathons. So obviously, I need to run a couple full-marathons. The plan is run all half-marathons and the big 3 marathons - KL Standard Chartered Marathon (around july), PBIM (Nov) and Singapore Standard Chartered marathon (Dec).
My 2 assignments will be:
1) Mar 13 - Bareno Run. I have registered for 21km (RM50).. Stadium Bukit Jalil is the starting and end point. This one still TBD since it clashes with my cousin's wedding !!
2) April 16 - Energizer Night Race. I have also signed up for 21km (RM55). This is going to be an interesting route as it runs 2 loops inside the Formula 1 circuit at Sepang before going round the Sepang area. I have also managed to bring in a running partner in the form of Dr Ooi and we plan to drive down and come back on the night itself.
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