Results PPAC-56 - Sokha Lap Race

Welcome back to the first PPAC event following our break after the end of Cambodia's Next Top Runner 2021. Some of PPAC's members took part in a very fun trail run the previous week so we put on a shorter event to get back into the swing of road racing for the year's calendar ahead.

The Sokha Lap race consists of one lap of the Sokha Hotel and surrounding undeveloped grassland which makes a loop of approximately 2.14 km. Every time we hold a race here, be it 3, 5 or 10 km, we attempt to record athletes' lap times and to date 154 different individuals have recorded at least one lap time registered in the Sokha Lap leaderboard.

The single Sokha Lap race is the best opportunity for breaking the course record or climbing the leaderboard with a PB. The race is run with a rolling staggered handicap-style start to give the best chance of a fast time and to generate more racing action at the finish line as the fastest runners catch the earlier starters over the course of the race.

In cool but humid conditions and a medium southerly wind, Andarge set the early pace and quickly established a significant gap over second placed Neil as the runners gradually caught up with the rest of the field.
Andarge set a new PB with a 7:03 performance strong enough to take Neil's overall Sokha Lap record of 7:06 set last year. Martin also dipped under 8 minutes for the first time taking 15 seconds off his previous best effort.

 

In the fitness calculation Martin and Andarge were very closely matched, and Martin and Hugo were similarly matched for O2 consumption, Martin taking the top place in both rankings overall. There were also estimated 2 km PBs for Hugo and Martin.

We will publish the update Sokha Lap rankings soon, after the 3 and 5km road races have taken place.