PPAC-87 3km Road Race

The club's first 3km road race of the year continued a great start to the 2022 calendar with youth runners outnumbering seniors and a total of 32 finishers.

We had three new youth athletes and thirteen taking part in their first 3km race with everyone finishing under 26 minutes. Well done to this week's first place female finishers Meyjou and Sreyleap in the senior and youth categories respectively, and Viro and Soboros in the equivalent male categories.

Main results below are ranked by PPAC points, which gives us a great idea of performance level across the male and female categories.
We had an amazing fourteen PBs for athletes with previously recorded 3km times, with new bests for eleven youth athletes including big improvements of more than 10% for Sreymien, Senglim, Soboros and Ma Mon. It's great to see so many youth athletes all making good progress.
There were eight points PBs, including first points scores for Senghong and Udom and improvements of 50+ points for six athletes.

There are four excellent sub-1.00 consistent performances this week with top-ranked Sreyleap running an extremely measured race on her way to an event and points PB. Mathieu and Adrien were both very consistent on their way to sub-12 minute performances in their first 3km race.

It's useful to compare pacing between the short first section (Park Lap, ~0.86 km) and the Sokha Lap and we can see that some athletes, with a higher consistency rating in double figures and a large difference in pace, started the race too fast and were unable to maintain enough speed for the rest of the race.

Special thanks to our volunteer officials and assistants and photographers on the morning, Haruka, Seavmey, Sivmuyleng and James as well as all who supported the event by helping out and via donations.

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