27th Oct 2009 Tuesday - MF hill run 7 loops; Change Of Target 8 loops.

Tonight our training menu was to do the 7 loops MF hill; and Trainer Ong requested every runner to attempt 7 loops and gave us additional 10min on top of the normal 60min cut off time.

As I was chatting with Jamie after the warm up run at the mid hill; I shared with her that my best timing for 7 loops was 62min. And she suggested to me :- "Hey, you can try 8 loops tonight". Dwelling on her suggestion, ya why not? Anyway I have yet to attempt 8 loops since the usual cut off time was always 60 min for 7 loops, but tonight Trainer Ong has given extra 10min good opportunity to try, s0 I "Changed My Target", run 8 loops and hopefully with a decent timing of below 75 min. After tonight 8 loops timing, I would be able to work on shaving off and improving my timing for future 8 loop-run.

Timing:-
1st loop-8.50min,,2nd loop-9.20min,,3rd loop-9.27min,,4th loop-9.49min,, 5th loop-9.20min,, 6th,7th and 8th loop - 28min - Total timing = 74.45min.

Not too bad with the timing, I thought; as I did not really want to push myself very hard, except at the last two loops that I sped up a little to ensure that my total timing would not go beyond the decent timing of 75min. For my next future attempt for the same loop, I would target 72min, that means ave 9min per loop.

I recalled my first time running this hill in 2006 when I just joined MF to tackle SCSM 21km, I could only manage 5 loops out of 6 in approx. 60min and panting breathlessly. Few months later in my 2nd attempt I managed to struggle 6 loops in 64min, subsequently and gradually in other attempts; 6 loops in 54 to 56min. As of today, hmm yes quite an achievement.

Tonight any other "first" in Oct month , first time to attempt 8 loops, first time attempted 60 laps-pool swim, first time did 3km sea swim. Quite an achievement to me. Hopefully a successful first time FIM in 2010.
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