Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2009.

After 2 marathon attempt, i decide to run a half marathon for this year edition. Mainly due to the pain felt in my right sole of the feet. Seems like it will not go away. *sigh*

My race report is also getting shorter and since this is just a half marathon, there is not much to write about.
Went to sleep around 11+. Set the alarm clock to ring at 0415 hrs. After the normal preparation, nothing special, did not bring power gel as i forget to buy before hand. Bring my nathan fuel belt with 1 empty water bottle to top up 100+ along the way.

Left home at around 0455 hrs. Reach the SMU admin building (recommended by Eddie) at around 0525 hrs. Parked there and wait for Eddie, Ee Hong and Tom. We then proceed to swissotel hotel toilet to take a piss/dump. Proceed to the starting point and reach there quite early to wait for the half marathon to start at 0645 hrs. Saw Stanley at the opposite side of the bridge.

I knew that there is no way for me to keep up with Eddie and Ee Hong. So i proceed to run at my own comfortable pace. My target is just a PB will do. Was very happy to see that the water and 100+ point are very long. This would means that there will be no jam at the various water point. There are quite a few up and down slope along the way. After reaching the 16km mark, i felt a bit tired and did a run walk strategy to the end point keeping in mind my target of 2:30. Fortunately, i managed to come in before 2:30.

After collecting the medal, saw Ee Hong and we proceed to the Singtel tent for bananas/drinks and to wait for the rest of the runners to come back.

Left around 11am and Eddie, Ee Hong, Yee Tat, Soo (finished his first marathon) and me proceed to the Bras Basah Mac Donald for breakfast.

Below are the official results.

Full marathon

Rank, Name, Chip time, Gun time
1) Billy Lee Kwai Koon, 4:29:05, 4:30:41
2) Seow Bee Hwa, 4:44:08, 4:46:13
3) Soo Kok Meng, 5:07:50, 5:30:07
4) Chia Han Ghee, 5:51:05, 5:53:53
5) Samuel Lee Kwek Ming, 5:51:51, 6:06:11
6) Stanley Khaw, 6:43:04, 7:05:22
7) Edgar Chua Chee Yong, 6:55:40, 6:59:02
8) Nandula V RamaJoga Rao, 7:51:26, 8:05:37

Half marathon

Rank, Name, Chip time, Gun time
1) Manoj Srinivasa, 2:03:56, 2:11:48
2) Ng Yee Tat, 2:04:27, 2:11:25
3) Eddie Tan, 2:05:00, 2:05:22
4) Lim Ee Hong, 2:20:13, 2:20:36
5) Goh Kok Yong, 2:26:12, 2:26:33
6) Ng Yuen See, 2:49:48, 2:56:25

Men 10km
Rank, Name, Chip time, Gun time
1) Khoo Tieng Leong, 1:03:15, 1:03:38
2) Wong Seong Yin, 1:14:47, 1:20:16
3) Cheong Yeow Heng, 1:18:51, 2:08:16
4) Lee Wei Kit, 1:20:17, 1:21:18
5) Kajiwara Akinori, 1:43:07, 1:49:54
6) Liu Lu, 1:43:49, 1:50:36
7) Tan Choo Yee, 1:43:52, 1:50:41

Women 10km
Rank, Name, Chip time, Gun time
1) Cheng Kooi Eng, 1:50:35, 1:55:00

Photos from www.marathon-photos.com



Singtel photos.