Changi General Hospital

I have registered to run this year end standard chartered marathon Singapore. As usual, the good people from standard chartered will e-mail me the e-newsletter. Something caught my eye, changi general hospital will be doing a public forum for runners. I signed up and attended the forum earlier today. This is the first time I ever attended a forum discussing on sports matters. Its kinda different from the forums which I used to go. Its all about science, you do this you’ll get that kinda thing and other things have to be equal.

Allow me to share with you what I’ve learnt (in general terms):

1. You got to know your body’s capability – through HR, VO2, lactic acid accumulation.
2. The purpose of training is to set your body to perform to your best capability – and it has to be done correctly – easy run, marathon phase, threshold training, interval training.
3. Don’t ignore supplementary training – weights
4. Like swimming, running long distance is all about making full use of your fluid movement (rebound, torsion disposition, vertical position, ground contact) and good economic use of energy.
5. Recover after training wisely.

6. Warming up / stretching – don’t overdo.

I am yet to try what I have been told. Let us see whether I can do it tomorrow.