What Doesn’t Kill Me, Makes Me Stronger
Training has been great from the start of the year ever since I threw my shoes away for Vibram Five Fingers although I was probably overly enthusiastic with the momentum that I faced injury at the end of April. After 4 months of inactivity, I finally started training again at the start of September and the result is even more rewarding when looking at my data and my form.
“What doesn’t kills you, makes you stronger” – Friedrich Neitzche
Of course I don’t train to kill myself but I definitely can see myself getting stronger after each setback.
Of course I can’t say that I ran as much as the Jan-Apr period since this is only the 2nd month into my current cycle of training but the difference is that I am running further per run on average and taking my slow runs even slower – to the point of finally calling it a jog. I am also running harder for my fast runs and tweaking it here and there to better suit it for long distance training.
I used to think that in order to run fast, one has to train fast but after reading about Japanese marathoners, they really emphasize on clocking mileage and they are extremely fast in the marathon – If I dare say, the fastest group of marathoners one can find in Asia. Some of the Japanese run as much as over 1,200-1,300km per month. That is 300-325km per week and 42.9-46.3km per day even if you ran everyday. A f**king marathon everyday! Crazy much? Haha!
Interestingly, most of their mileage is done at a “slow” 5min/km. Seeing that they race 42.195km at 3min/km, 5min/km is definitely slow for them.
As an Asian, I shall look up to their training (instead of the Americans) and hope that one day, my “slow” jogs will be as fast as their “slow” ones.
Last year, I finish the Singapore Bay Run/Army Half Marathon in 2hrs 43mins 32secs. I shall aim high and say it here…
I’ll finish the half marathon at Standard Chartered Marathon in under 2hrs on 5th Dec 2010!
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eujzin Says:
October 22nd, 2010 at 5:32 pm
JIA YOU! I will be supporting you… er… from my bed, if i don’t make it to the finish line on time… HAHA..
If you manage to do it under 2km, I treat you ice cream!
hee.hee.
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October 25th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
@Daphne: You just had to show how much you are not into running right? It’s under “2 HRS”.. not “2 KM”!!!
But thanks in advance for the ice-cream!