If you are keen and have queries, please contact Coach Rameshon at 9100 4369 or you can email him at m.rameshon@gmail.com or swift.rameshon@gmail.com. Please refer to website http://flexifitness.com.sg (for more information on him and his programmes)
By Rameshon
Bsc (Hons) Degree in Physical Education, Loughborough University (1992-1994)
Masters in Education (University of Western Australia, 2005-2008)
Samuel will be running in the Bank of America Chicago Marathon on Sunday, 10th October, where he will be defending his title and also attack Haile Gebreselassie’s World Marathon record time of 2:03:59. What is interesting is that Chicago is a flat course and Samuel is in very good shape. Hence, the men's competition at Chicago, a World Marathon Majors (WMM) event, remains very competitive.
A point to note is that that Olympic champion, Samuel Wanjiru will have to go head-on with 2010 Virgin London Marathon champion Tsegaye Kebede, and 2010 Boston Marathon champion Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot. The 2009/2010 WMM points title is likely to be decided in Chicago with the $500,000 winner-take-all prize going to either Wanjiru or Kebede Patrick Makau of Kenya and Aberu Kebede of Ethiopia won the running of the real, Berlin Marathon with fast times.
Makau, 25, and fellow Kenyan Geoffrey Mutai, 28, battled it out in the Rotterdam Marathon last April, and finished first and second, respectively. Makau won in 2:05:08, two seconds slower to Mutai. As such, these two men have clocked the four fastest marathon times in the world this year - 2:04:48 and 2:05:08. As for Makau the marathon times were 2:04:55 and 2:05:10 for Mutai.
Ethihopia's Bazo Worku (2:05:25) and Yemane Tsegay (2:07:52) ended as top 4. The interesting fact was that the athletes from Africa took the top-8 spots while the first Asian was Japan's Masakazu Fujiwara in ninth place (2:12:00), and the top European was Spain's Jose Carlos Hernandez in 11th place (2:13:46).
Ken Nakamura, a statistician from Japan considers Berlin as the fastest men's marathon race of all-time based on the average of the best ten marks from the race:2:05:10.
Women's winner Kebede, 21, was ranked first with exactly a minute faster than the same country runner Bezunesh Bekele, 27, in 2:23:58 (PB). Japan's Tomo Morimoto finished third in 2:26:10 and Germany's Sabrina Mockenhaupt got fourth in 2:26:21, a personal best by one second.
By Narayanan
He also has a Coaching group and he trains them on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7pm at Botanic Gardens. Those interested can call him at 91004369 for coaching assistance, to improve performance. There is also personal training that he does for many in a week. You can e-mail him at swift.rameshon@gmail.com.
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By Narayanan
Rameshon has taught in Hwa Chong Institution, plus several schools, and Republic Polytechnic as well. He has won many accolades and he was awarded Merit Award for 1991 marathon performance in breaking the national record of Singapore, at that time. He has made 22 male athletes do a marathon in sub-3hrs. He has made 7 female runners do sub-4 hours for the marathon, as well. He was inducted to the ‘Roll of Honour’ by the then College of Physical Education, organised by Singapore Olympic Academy, in 1998, for breaking the National record repeatedly 4 times, till he did 2hr 24min 22sec).
He also has a Coaching group and he trains them on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7pm at Botanic Gardens. Those interested can call him at 91004369 for coaching assistance, to improve performance. There is also personal training that he does for many in a week. You can e-mail him at swift.rameshon@gmail.com.
