Hong Kong How I Miss You! Remembering SCHKM 2019...An Unexpected Journey
BLAZING SCHKM 2019 february 18, 2019 by francis yeng It’s one of most improbable of outcomes. But dreams, they say, are often made of these. SCHKM has become a default event. For lack of choices?? (or too lazy to explore other options), this has become almost an annual pilgrimage. Shy of 2018, 2017 topped all my SCHKM experiences. Thoroughly enjoyed the run and managed to clock the event PB of 3:04:09. That being the case, it would seem fair to deduct that SCHKM would realistically set you back your MT (marathon time) by a margin of ~5 minutes. The key factor being its sheer hilly terrain! This held assumption was based on the fact that a fortnight after SCHKM 2017, I finally clinched my first ever sub 3 hours at Himeji Castle Marathon. In light of this, my latest PB of 2:55:25 in Osaka (Nov 2018) would seem untouchable. No measure of positive thinking could convince me to shift that paradigm. In order to break that 2:55 in HK, it would not only require a gigantic eff...