I try to eat healthily all the time. But of course, from time to time I'd give myself a time out to pig out or indulge in anything. & of course, like most ppl, even health-conscious ppl, I have a vice.
My biggest vice to date is Vanilla Coke. How can a drink be harmful ? Well, considering the amount of calorie contained in a 500ml bottle of Vanilla Coke.. it can be harmful in the long run. But I just can't stay away from it. I'll make sure there's at least a 1.5L bottle in my fridge at all times. & usually it'll take 3-5 days for me & my wife to finish it.
A typical day of eating for me will start with a breakfast. As the saying goes, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Usually I'll have some fried rice, or meehon or noodles, with my current favorite quail eggs.. if I had rice for breakfast, usually it'll be the only time I'ma eat rice the whole day. Then for lunch normally I'll have a can of corn, either a big one or a small one. Sometimes if I go out then I'll have something else, heavier. It also depends on my training program for the afternoon. & sometimes if I have things to do in the afternoon, then I'll be at the gym during lunch time.
Dinner time. This would be my lightest meal of the day. Usually I'll have some roti pratha with sardines, or maybe chapati, or again some fried meehon or noodles. The key here is to have dinner as early as possible.
Friday lunchtime is normally my pig out time... Normally I'll have a hearty meal of rice & chicken curry, some veges.. not too much actually. Considering that normally I'll do my long runs on Saturday, I consider this as my fueling up moment..
Whatever it is, too much of even the healthiest food is normally not good at all. So eat in moderation, watch what U eat & U shud be okay...
Livestrong.
Thursday, May 27, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Tricky race
It's been more than a couple of months since my last entry. I've been really, really busy.. even with my KPSU around. More ppl means more work can be dumped on us, so that's what happening now.
New Balance Pacesetters 15K
I've just completed the race for the 1st time yesterday. I registered for the race last year, but didn't run becoz I had a fever just after Larian Bomba 2009. So I had no idea what the route was like. & yesterday was a brutal introduction to the route... it was.. a killer. I thought the Jln Beringin lap down in Mont Kiara was tough.. this was even tougher.. doable.. but tough. What makes it so tough ?
It was the climbs. The route wasn't a rolling course like Jln Beringin. This course was like.. uphill for half a mile or so.. slight downhill.. then up again.. man... The toughest climb was at Jln Dato' Onn, I was almost reduced to a walking pace.
I had earlier set a target of 6:00/km or faster pace, becoz I thought the course was somewhat like Larian Bomba, where I was able to maintain a 5:40 pace. So my Polar wouldn't stop beeping was I was only able to do a 6:24 pace. I had set it to beep if I go beyond 5:40.. overestimate.. lucky it wasn't one long tone... beeeeeeeeeeep..
My pre race prep wasn't an ideal one either. I didn't run for 4 straight days before Sunday. & the nite before I couldn't sleep. It wasn't the heat, but proly the fact that I had taken a 2 hour nap in the afternoon.. so at nite I couldn't sleep well. When I woke up at 5:30 I felt tired still. Hmm...
15K distance is indeed a tricky one. U couldn't go as fast U would in a 10K race, that would be too fast. & U couldn't go at half marathon pace either, that would be too slow. I ended up with something in between, at 6:24 pace. That gave me a time of 1:32.49 unofficially, official time would be somewhere around 1:33.. was it bad ? My 10K time was around 1:03. Considering the brutality of the course & my conditions.. I guess that was okay. But the bright side of it was that if I can maintain this pace for my next half marathon in Setia Alam, I can run at slightly faster than 2 hrs, which is good news.
I didn't bring any feeding for the race. It turned out to be that I didn't need any. But what I needed was water. & there wasn't enuff of them. There was 3 water stations. & the last one was just 3K from the end. & that was like 4-5K after we tackled the killer hill. I was really desperate for some water by then. & at the end as well. I was really ill-prepared for this race. I didn't even bring any Gatorade with me to the race. Gatorade was my primary thirst quencher & by not having any meant that I had to settle with plain water given in the goodie bag. I was shaking at the end. I didn't even talk to Azam@Elgato, my running partner. He was getting better. He passed me just before Jln Dato' Onn & I didn't see him after that until I finished the race.
Well, there are lessons to be learned from this race. Learn from our mistakes & we can certainly be a better runner.
Larian Bomba 2010
This race was where I started racing last year & I made a promise to do it every year. & this year I wanted to break my previous time. The race course remains the same every year & Choi told me it's a good way to gauge Ur performance. I couldn't agree more.
It wasn't a bad race, but maybe I've overestimated myself. No.. not really. Actually I wanted to break the hour so bad that when I realized I won't, I got so demoralized I slowed down... not a good sign. I had maintained a constant 5:40 throughout & was happy enuff, but I when my auto lap beep for the 2nd time, signalling 10K completed, I was still a good 1K from the end. I had done the 10K in 57 mins, & I realized I won't break the hour this time. So I just rolled along & finished in 1:03. Even worse than last year. Bummer.
But again, looking at the bright side, my 10K time was 57 mins, 2 mins off my previous best. So I have improved to a certain extent. Phewww..
Livestrong.
New Balance Pacesetters 15K
I've just completed the race for the 1st time yesterday. I registered for the race last year, but didn't run becoz I had a fever just after Larian Bomba 2009. So I had no idea what the route was like. & yesterday was a brutal introduction to the route... it was.. a killer. I thought the Jln Beringin lap down in Mont Kiara was tough.. this was even tougher.. doable.. but tough. What makes it so tough ?
It was the climbs. The route wasn't a rolling course like Jln Beringin. This course was like.. uphill for half a mile or so.. slight downhill.. then up again.. man... The toughest climb was at Jln Dato' Onn, I was almost reduced to a walking pace.
I had earlier set a target of 6:00/km or faster pace, becoz I thought the course was somewhat like Larian Bomba, where I was able to maintain a 5:40 pace. So my Polar wouldn't stop beeping was I was only able to do a 6:24 pace. I had set it to beep if I go beyond 5:40.. overestimate.. lucky it wasn't one long tone... beeeeeeeeeeep..
My pre race prep wasn't an ideal one either. I didn't run for 4 straight days before Sunday. & the nite before I couldn't sleep. It wasn't the heat, but proly the fact that I had taken a 2 hour nap in the afternoon.. so at nite I couldn't sleep well. When I woke up at 5:30 I felt tired still. Hmm...
15K distance is indeed a tricky one. U couldn't go as fast U would in a 10K race, that would be too fast. & U couldn't go at half marathon pace either, that would be too slow. I ended up with something in between, at 6:24 pace. That gave me a time of 1:32.49 unofficially, official time would be somewhere around 1:33.. was it bad ? My 10K time was around 1:03. Considering the brutality of the course & my conditions.. I guess that was okay. But the bright side of it was that if I can maintain this pace for my next half marathon in Setia Alam, I can run at slightly faster than 2 hrs, which is good news.
I didn't bring any feeding for the race. It turned out to be that I didn't need any. But what I needed was water. & there wasn't enuff of them. There was 3 water stations. & the last one was just 3K from the end. & that was like 4-5K after we tackled the killer hill. I was really desperate for some water by then. & at the end as well. I was really ill-prepared for this race. I didn't even bring any Gatorade with me to the race. Gatorade was my primary thirst quencher & by not having any meant that I had to settle with plain water given in the goodie bag. I was shaking at the end. I didn't even talk to Azam@Elgato, my running partner. He was getting better. He passed me just before Jln Dato' Onn & I didn't see him after that until I finished the race.
Well, there are lessons to be learned from this race. Learn from our mistakes & we can certainly be a better runner.
Larian Bomba 2010
This race was where I started racing last year & I made a promise to do it every year. & this year I wanted to break my previous time. The race course remains the same every year & Choi told me it's a good way to gauge Ur performance. I couldn't agree more.
It wasn't a bad race, but maybe I've overestimated myself. No.. not really. Actually I wanted to break the hour so bad that when I realized I won't, I got so demoralized I slowed down... not a good sign. I had maintained a constant 5:40 throughout & was happy enuff, but I when my auto lap beep for the 2nd time, signalling 10K completed, I was still a good 1K from the end. I had done the 10K in 57 mins, & I realized I won't break the hour this time. So I just rolled along & finished in 1:03. Even worse than last year. Bummer.
But again, looking at the bright side, my 10K time was 57 mins, 2 mins off my previous best. So I have improved to a certain extent. Phewww..
Livestrong.
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