We saw a few Personal Best (PB) and Season Best (SB) performances from Coach Alfred Sim-trained Republic Polytechnic as well as competitors from the Reactiv training group.
Personal Best and Season Best
1. Nikita ran 2 PBs yesterday with one coming in the 800m finals where she came in 2nd behind Lossini of Singapore Polytechnic, and another in the 400m where she established new PBs in the heats and finals, on her way to winning the 400m event.
(Coach Alfred: Nikita started proper sprint training with me during the 4th quarter of last year and improved on her speed after a year of training. She has shown much improvement in her running form. After a few competitions, she started to get the 400m race tempo, and eventually did her PBs at IVP. With the strong endurance base developed by her previous coaches, Mr Low Cham Pew and Mr Lim Kien Mau, it was not difficult for me to bring her to the next level.)
800m - 2mins 32.72secs (PB)
400 heats - 60.68secs (PB)
400 finals - 60.26secs (PB)
2. Melanie ran her first 400m race this season.
(Coach Alfred: Mel was not familiar with the race tempo and messed up her race during the heats, going too fast in her first 200m and eventually dying out due to the early onset of lactic acid accumulation in her race. It was after the 2 hour break where she realized her mistakes and did a SB to justify her painful lesson learnt.)
400 heats - 64.71secs
400 finals - 62.87secs (SB)
3. Firdaus As a captain of RP track team, he managed to run a PB, at the same time clocking below 12s. He is also in the RP 4x100m relay team, where he runs the 2nd leg. RP is now in the finals of the 4x100m to be run this coming Saturday.
100m heats - 11.97secs (PB)
4. Natalie Lee from Republic Polytechnic, who trains with Sprint Dynamic Sports Consultancy (SDSC), came in 3rd in the 100m finals.
(Coach Alfred: She managed to run a Personal Best in the heats. She is strong in her push and gave Balpreet from NTU a run for her money. What she is lacking though is stride frequency)
100m heats - 13.26secs (PB)
100m finals - 13.35secs
5. Shireen, Alicia, Kyser, Khalis and Zaki from Republic Polytechnic ran in the other individual events for RP.
(Coach Alfred: It was after a long break where Khalis and Kyser started theiur training proper just a few weeks before the competition. Someone who amazed me was Alicia, who only did 2 hurdle training sessions and 4 training days in total, and yet managed to run her way into the 100m Hurdles finals. Unfortunately, she didn't manage to finish the race after tripping over the first hurdle. On another note, Shireen, who was part of our Asian Youth Games contingent last year, unsurprisingly came in first for her pet event as she out-jumped the 2nd place jumper by more than a meter! )
Shireen 1st for Triple Jump (trains with Dr Valeri Obidko)
Khalis came in 4th in the 400m finals with a time of 54.00secs (trains with SDSC)
Zaki came in 2nd in the 400m with a time of 51.04secs (trains with SDSC)
Alicia Tiang heats - 20.22secs. Tripped on the first hurdle and did not finish the finals.
Kyser ran a time of 12.19secs in the heats.
4x100m Boys (Kyser, Firdaus, Marcus and Zaki) qualified for the Finals
Day 2 of the IVP Meet will be held on the 30th of Oct. We hope to see more PBs and SBs on that day. Hakeem and Melanie, both from NUS, will be running in the 200m and 4x100m finals.
Credits:
Written by Shalindran and Alfred
Edited by Hakeem
Photos courtesy of Singapore Athletic Association Facebook
