Kuudere
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That's really unfortunate, but there are still some running legends that I remembered from my days.
There's a legendary coach called Rameshon, who set the previous national marathon record. He managed to coach Ashley Liew and Jared Hui, both of them ended up doing very well.
Jared Hui, used to be number 1 in his secondary school road runs, with zero cross country experience. Went to do a run trial at sec 4 with Rameshon and ran the 2.4km @ 9.20. Way below 8.20 criteria that Rameshon set. But Rameshon saw potential in him and coached him. Within 1 month, he did the 5km in 18.52. Afterwards, Rameshon didn't coach him anymore and asked him to study for Os. His O lvl was 15 points, supposed to go poly. But went to CJC by appealing to the running team, where he ran 2.4km @ 8.03 in the following year February. Later on, he went on to get 2nd in the National Cross Country Games in 2012.
Ashley Liew, used to be bui bui. First marathon 4 hr 29 min @ end of JC2 in 2004. Put on weight during NS. Started to diet/train under Rameshon in 2008, where he did his first speedwork. Made his breakthrough the following year where he got 2nd for the marathon in the local category (SCMS). He studied in SMU and ran for the team, but didn't have any standout performances. Went to the US and did chiropractor training. Ran his PB there for marathon @ 2.32 hr. Represented SG for marathon in 2013/2015 SEA Games.
There are also others that I recall: Mok Ying Ren (did well in cross country from school days and even uni, took a gap year after med school to train (including going to Boulder, Colorado) because medical housemanship is basically operating on 24-hr shifts. Didn't want to have any regrets before leaving the running scene and later married his waifu when he stepped down from the competitive scene.
Karthic (won National Cross Country Games in 2012/2013 in his first/second year in JC, came back to run for SUTD in 2018/2019 and won in the 1500m. SUTD was considered as an underdog uni, never won before until he came in. 1500m PB was 4.07 and 5000m PB was 16.13.
One guy that I met in 2015/2016 that is still currently in the running scene, is the Ngee Poly cross-country captain, Najib Mooiz. Managed to meet this guy on weekdays since my NS unit was stay out. Every day come home, will go Ngee Ann poly track to run before my dinner.
He debut in 2013 at 18 y.o., ran the 5km @ 18.59, 10km @ 39.34. In 2014, ran the 5km @ 18.11 and 18.13 as well as 10km @ 37.56. In 2015, 5km @ 17.53, 10km @ 37.20. Final run before he went NS was 37.04 in 2016. Continued training consistently under his old coach from poly. Last year in 2023, 10km PB was 34.39 and SCSM HM was 1.18 hr.
Consistency gets you really far.
. Just realised while eating dinner, I did a search on last year cross country/wings results. The girl that I paced with during my 5km time trial last week in the running club I go, was a cross country runner last year. Ran the 3.8km in 15.40. Recently ran the 1.5km in 5.23 before the 5k club time trial.
