This year's SCKLM is my 3rd full marathon, also my 3rd attempt to achieve a sub-5 finish. The result however was disappointing. At the end my legs couldn't take the challenge and I was suffering from cramps starting from the 25th kilometer. I managed to finish with a time of 5 hours 37 minutes, only slightly better than my 1st full marathon almost 2 years ago at the same event.
Looking back at the run, I was running fairly comfortably until 25km actually until the cramps kicked in suddenly. My 1st 10km pace was around 66 minutes and similarly for the 2nd 10km. In fact I slowed my pace down to 7 minutes per km after the 20km mark, trying to conserve energy. However all these didn't help at the end.
Anyway setbacks are part of life, I'll train hard again for next year's edition and hopefully a better result next time.
Until then keep running and stay healthy.
