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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)
OTSU (Japan):
Otsu was the place that I stayed to run in the 1988 Biwako Marathon race, which was held in conjunction with 1st Asian Marathon Championships 1988. Otsu brings me very good memories. I came in 7th out of the Asian athletes at that time. It came out in the newspaper and Mr John Koh was praising me for doing well there. It was a very good experience running there as it was my first overseas experience running for Singapore. I met many runners from all over Asia and made friends with them. One such friend that I made was with Lee Kar Lun, former Hong Kong top runner and now a top runner in the veteran section. As such, I would like to feature the race for my blog.
Lake Biwa Marathon 2012
Japanese-based Kenyan runner Samuel Ndungu won the marathon on Sunday at Lake Biwa race.
Ndungu, 23, broke away before the 32-kilometre, with 8 runners pursuing him, and never faced a serious competition afterwards, finishing the race in a sub 2hr 8min time of 2 hr 7 min 4 sec.
Second in the race was Henryk Szost, who set a new Polish national record of 2:07:39 while Abdellah Taghrafet of Morocco finished in 2:08:37 and came in third.
Ndungu, who is a member of an athletics club in Aichi, central Japan told the press that he was very happy about the race for it was his first victory in his life for an International Marathon race. He was concerned about doing his best during the race.
There were two Kenyan pace-makers during the race who ran until the 25-kilometre mark when they were overtaken by the elite runners of the race.
Nicholas Manza of Kenya and Bekana Daba of Ethiopia suddenly picked up speed, with Daba taking a solo lead one kilometre later before seven runners caught up with him at the 28km point.
The surprise came in the race when Ryo Yamamoto overtook front-running Kentaro Nakamoto in the last 400m to secure fourth place in 2:08:44 and take a big step towards winning a ticket to London.
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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.
