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PPAC-74 3km Road Race

The 3km road race is a great opportunity to gauge if you have that extra bit of speed that will help you push for strong times in longer races down the line, in addition to the aerobic endurance you'll also need to have under your belt. It's also a great chance for younger athletes to get involved and experience racing something close to a high school cross country distance.

We were honoured this week to welcome for the first time H.E. Samheng Boros, the new president of the Khmer Amateur Athletic Federation, participating alongside four other new athletes.

There were great performances all round in the 3km road race, including a notable performance by Andarge, becoming the second PPAC athlete to go under 10 minutes and improving on Bunthorn's club record by a margin of 2.6s with his time of 9:56.

In the youth race, Piseth finished just ahead of Sreyleap, however, Sreyleap's proved to be the stronger points performance. Emilio came in another 15 seconds back, with an impressive points-scoring effort in his first event and all starters successfully completed the event.

There were PBs for 7 athletes with previously recorded times, with Sreyleap, Piseth and Seavmey recording the biggest improvements - all over 30s quicker than their previous best efforts, and Seavmey was the only athlete this week to score a PPAC points PB!

Sreyleap topped the consistency rankings, just ahead of Matt, with five athletes including newcomer Emilio scoring impressive consistency ratings of under 1.00. There were seven best Sokha lap performances, with Matt slicing a tiny 0.2s off his previous best, Yin Ling leapfrogging Meyjou by 2.2s for top female Sokha lap ranking (32nd overall), Leo climbing into the top-30 and Irina taking over 7 minutes off her previous best lap time!

The PPAC team would like to thank our helpers Seavmey and Seavleang for their valuable assistance. Join us again very soon for more exciting events!
© PPAC 2021

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