PPAC-76 5km Road Race

September's 5km road race took place in ideal conditions and we were delighted to welcome four 5k first timers (including three complete newcomers to PPAC) ensuring both youth and senior athletes were well represented.

In the youth race first timer Erika put in a great effort to cross the line first in 28:38 while Andarge and Yin Ling topped their respective categories in the senior race. Youth athlete Sivmey produced the biggest improvement of the morning lowering her PB by an impressive margin of 8:23!

In the senior race Guanghai, Vannak and Lorinda produced strong performances to lower their personal bests by 41, 47 and 55 seconds, equating to improvements of around 3% for all three.

There were Points PBs for Vannak and Dickson and Sokha Best Laps for Sanket, Dickson and Sivmey. The race saw four extremely consistent performances, all with ratings well under 1.00, with Muyngim top this week, running within a 0:01/km pace range across all three timed sections of the race.

Vannak was way out front in the fitness factor ratings with a score of 65 to accompany his PB, and again there are several athletes in the mid-50s across a wide range of finish times.

Thanks as always to the participants, race officials and volunteers, and special thanks this week to Chanpiseth for his photography at the finish line.

Thank you to all the participants who contributed donations this week, which are essential to help the club continue putting on accessible events and growing its activities. Join us soon for another PPAC event!

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