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PPAC-133 3000m Track Meet [23 June 2024]

Our second 3000m track meet of 2024 set off at a timely 6:05AM in excellent conditions following overnight rain with15 runners completing the 7.5 laps in two heats between 11 to 21 minutes. A keen group runners with varying levels and experience showcased their determination and aerobic speed capacity in what was a first 3000m track race for a few, and a return to this distance for several!

The race report and full results are below. See you soon for more fun training sessions and athletics events!

Results
Jack, Meyjou and Sovannapanhaseth were the category leaders this week. Bora recorded a huge personal best (PB), improving on his previous best previous effort by over 5m30s and four athletes improved their Best Points scores, signifying their strongest performance in any PPAC event, including a first points score for one runner!

We're always happy to see runners try out events on the track, which can seem daunting from afar – however, consistent training and racing, including track, helps runners to raise their personal performance levels. This week Jack got the top spot while completing an amazing 50th event, while also training new volunteer officials to time and keep score - all of Phnom Penh Athletics is mightily proud of such dedication and commitment!

Analysis and Consistency
Consistent pace is one of the key elements to great performances in distance events on the road and the track. The analysis table and charts below allow runners to assess their pace per 1000m and per every 200m split.

The quickest 1000m and 200m splits for each runner are highlighted bold, and the quickest 400m split has the two respective 200m splits italicised.

It's often beneficial to have some additional pace available towards the end of the race that will be useful in competitive sprint finishes. In addition to the training and race practice required this also relies on not starting the race too fast. Similarly to our last 3000m outing, nine out of fifteen runners scored their quickest 200m split straight from the start signal (10/15 also scored their quickest 400m and 1000m splits the same way!). 5/15 runners managed to save their best single laps and sprint finishes to the final stretch and the same number achieved their best 1000m split in the final section.

Volunteers & Supporters
Thanks as always to our volunteer officials and helpers on the morning – special mention to Bora officiating for the first time, with Jack, Meyjou, Seavleang, Sivmuyleng and pre- and post-race support & media from Neil!

We would like to extend our gratitude to all the runners and supporters who made this running event a success and whose support allows PPAC to continue to organise community athletics activities for all.

Phnom Penh Athletics Club is a community-oriented club with the vision of contributing to the development of grassroots athletics and access to sport for all in Cambodia. We welcome community-minded runners, coaches and parents (including non-runners/sportspeople) to get involved and we appreciate your feedback. We look forward to seeing you all next time!

Keep on track of our schedule of 🏃💪⏱ training sessions, 🏁 🏅races and more fun activities 👟🎽 on our Telegram channel!

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Registration forms (you can take part in regular club events once registered)
  • New runners (adults) register here
  • Under-18s: Provide a completed and signed (by parents/guardians) U18 registration form to phnompenhathletics@gmail.com or hand to us on the day of the event.
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