Patience Runners

Once again, another competition is on going now. Everyone got excited and nervous towards their event. Common voices; "i very scare"; "i'm afraid i'm the last to come back"; "i don't feel like running";....;etc

What is the main reason you want to train as a runner? Why sign up competition and quit in the last minute? Do we know the reasons?

What i can think of is preparation. How well we prepared toward the race, how focus are we towards the race and how patience are we toward the race.

If we set a competition like IVP which is usually in Sept/Oct, when are we going to start training? How much patience do i have from now to then? Am i willing to sacrifice others activities for training? Once mind is set to do it, JUST DO IT!

During a race, we saw fast and slow runners running, ever question why some can run that fast? Are they gived or are their born to run fast? If their are born to run fast, do they need training? How much time have they put in?

An example of two runners in my group, Richard and LingEr. Richard is naturally have a fast muscles twitch, but because of his working loads, he can afford only 2-3days of training per week. And each training can only focus on short endurance work. This will able to make him run fast but not very fast because he can't substain longer/faster work load. He doen't have time to do longer continuous run to build up his cardio-respiratory system. Remember at one stage he did alot of long run (20-30 rds), without doing much speed, he clocked a 2'09 for 800 during a time trial. This type of runners is "born-to-run", but he still need training to push up his performance.
On contrast, LingEr doesn't has a fast twitch muscles but she is willing clock-in mileages, within a year and a half, she has proven herself from 50+min 10km to a sub 45min 10k runner. Of course, she has to sacrifice alot of her personal time to training. I remember the 1st time i saw her running was during her NAPFA test in 2007. If i'm not wrong she clocked a 10'13 or 10'17 for 2.4km. Now, i'm not surprise she can do it close to 9min or even sub 9.

The above two stories tell me whether you are born with what type of muscles fibres, you still need to train regularly. Train with a more scincific training method rather than going out there to do all hard run.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL THOSE TAKING PART IN IVP AND TRAIN WELL, REST WELL TO ALL RUNNERS!

- ROBIN -