PPAC-99 5km Road Race

The club's sixth 5km of the year was held in dry conditions for the season and saw a good turnout with a mix of local and international youth and senior athletes.

This year's 5km events are part of the 2022 5km road race series where every finish gets you a score. We will be tracking various 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 six first timers and twelve athletes taking part in their first PPAC 5km race with everyone finishing within 45 minutes. Well done to this week's first place category finishers Charonay and Yin Ling in the youth and senior women's respectively, and Soboros and Dan in the equivalent men's categories.

We had eight impressive PBs for athletes with previously recorded 5km times including new bests for four youth athletes with several big improvements in the range of 90 seconds to over six minutes. Two athletes recorded new points records and one athlete each respectively went sub-40, sub-30 and sub-20 minutes for the first time - great efforts all round!

Special mention for regular athlete Matthew who took part in his 43rd PPAC event and is now in clear second place overall, two ahead of the chasing pack in the all-time attendance records.

There are three performances with highly consistent pacing (sub 1.00 pacing consistency) this week with exceptional pacing from first timer, So, and all three registering PBs.

Special thanks to our volunteer officials, marshals and photographers on the morning, Meyjou, Neil, Seavmey and Seavleang as well as all who supported the event by accompanying the athletes or helping in any other way.

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