2011

Happy New Year !!! Well, okay, it's the 4th day of 2011 already & it may sound belated, but what the heck !! Well, as some of y'all might have known edi, the reason I'm very, very excited about 2011 is that my wife & I will be welcoming a new member to our family in 8 months' time !! Finally. After 7 pretty long & challenging years, we're gonna have a complete family. Allah knows how thankful I am for this mighty great gift. Although raising a kid in this era is no easy task, we're gonna try & be the best parent tht we can be.

Sick

Well, I celebrated 2011 with a cold. Lemme tell U tht cold is proly one illness that can really bring me down. Although in 2009, I ran the Standard Chartered KL Marathon 10K with a cold, it can really bother me sometimes. I didn't really know how it started, but I guess it was a culmination of all those outstation trips I've been to for the past 4 weeks or so, beginning with the JKTU recon trip early in December. Ending with the ascent up the pretty chilly Gunung Jerai in the final week of December, I guess I deserved the rest. I missed a couple of days of training as a result.

2011 season

I'ma have to do things slightly differently this season, as my wife's due in late August & I proly won't be able to do much for the rest of the year. So I'ma have to do all my major races before August. Last year I did some mistakes :

1. After PSKK I pretty much didn't follow a set program, everything was ad hoc
2. I put my running around my weight training,instead of vice versa
3. I screwed up big time on my weight training, resulting in an under-developed body

So to fix it this year, these are what I'm gonna do :

1. Focus on running up until May or June, around time for PSKK
2. During that period, I'ma run 4 times a week, & do weights twice, with 1 full rest day
3. I'ma try to run in 2 sessions on my running days, proly waking up early morning to do easy 30 mins, just to kick things off
4. I'ma set 2 races as my primary race to set my PB this year : the Energizer & Setia Alam
5. My PB target would be to go sub 2-hour, maybe 1:45-1:50 (very ambitious, but I'll try)
6. For PSP, I'ma focus on throwing & proly jumping event, most proly javelin, discus, triple & long jump.
7. If there's one track event I wanna do, it'd be the mile (1,500m)
8. For that period, it's gonna be 3 weights sessions per week.

Considering that my fastest 10K is 55 mins this year (distance is questionable though), a 1:45 half mara is pretty ambitious target. At that pace, I can finish the half mara in 1:56 proly. But that is my target & Ive got all the time in the world to work towards it.

My primary mistake this year was I designed my running training around my weights, which shud be the other way round. I'll refocus on weights for my field events.

Also, my wife's pregnancy means that I'ma have to train more closer to home. I'd proly have to do more weight work at home, since I have most of the equipment at home. Proly I'ma have to add some more weight plates & proly get another set of dumbbells.

Well, I hope this year will be a more successful year in terms of running. & I certainly hope our child will brighten up our lives more than ever before.

Livestrong.