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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