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PPAC-86 5km Road Race

The club's first event of the year was our regular four-weekly 5km race, held in great early January conditions and a super way to get the 2022 calendar up and running with a great turnout and mix of youth and senior athletes.

This year's 5km events will be part of a 2022 5km road race series where every finish gets a score and competition points are awarded based on finishing position. We will also be tracking a number of other statistics including races completed, PBs, best laps and consistency over the course of the year so make sure you join often and chart your progress with PPAC!

We had four first timers and nine athletes taking part in their first 5km race with everyone finishing within 45 minutes. Well done to this week's first place category finishers Andarge and Soboros in the senior and youth men's respectively, and Muyngim and Sreyleap in the equivalent female categories.

Results below are ranked by PPAC points, which gives us a better sense of performance level across the male and female categories. We had four PBs for athletes with previously recorded 5km times with new bests for three youth athletes including impressive improvements by respective margins of 3:28 and 1:57 for Sreypov and Sreyleap. Near the top of the table James recorded a 25 second improvement and five athletes recorded new points records with the biggest increase of 242.5 points for Soboros' excellent result in his first 5km race.

There are two very similarly consistent performances this week from James (2nd place finisher overall) and Mark, with six of the top seven consistent performers recording strong negative splits on the Sokha lap which is a great sign of faster times to come from all those athletes. James also secured a rare double best lap result underlining a significant jump in individual performance.
Less consistent races with strong negative splits, often caused by setting off too fast, suggest that with better pacing those athletes can also make big improvements in performance!
Special thanks to our volunteer officials and assistants Seavmey, Seavleang and race director Neil as well as all who supported the event by assisting and via donations.

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