1500m for Men - S. Jeevanesh Champion in SAA Track Series 1

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By Rameshon
Bsc (Hons) Degree in Physical Education, Loughborough University (1992-1994)

Masters in Education (University of Western Australia, 2005-2008)

1500m For Men - SAA Track and Field Series 1

Today, morning, was the start of the SAA Track and Field Series 1. In the 1500m race, Ashley Liew and Jeevanesh took part in the race. Since it was only pre-season, I told Ashley to aim to run between 4min 25sec and 4min 30sec. However, as Jeeva is a better-conditioned runner, I gave him a slightly challenging target time of 4min 24sec to 4min 30sec. Since the season time is not here yet, doing a 4min 30sec to 4min 40sec would have been sufficient.

Picture 1 - S. Jeevanesh is fourth from the left, outside. Ashley is behind and cannot be seen.

The race was delayed by about 30-40mins and the digital timing for the race not working. After few races of the girl's race, the Men Open race started.

Picture 2 - At the 500m mark, S. Jeeva was slowly moving up to the front.

At the start, the leaders including S. Jeevanesh and Marcus Ong were running a 50sec for the first 300m. At the 300m point, S. Jeevanesh was running more on the outside of the leading group. Ashley did 51.6sec and he was way behind, just in front of 4 to 5 runners. Over time, Ashley Liew caught up many runners and was sticking to third position all the way till the end.

At the second lap, Jeeva was just following the leader and at a point Jeeva found the pace quite slow that he had to overtake and run forward. However. somewhere at the last 400m, Marcus Ong from Nanyang Polytechnic sudden surged to overtake Jeeva. Coming towards the last 300m, Jeeva decided to ramp up the speed and surged to the front to do a 1min 08sec for the last 400m. With a convincing lead, Jeeva out-sprinted the rest of them to come in as the champion with a time of 4min 21sec. Ashley did 1min 10sec for the last round and felt he has achieved the target that he had planned for when we had to sit together. In short, both runners, Ashley and S. Jeevanesh had achieved their short term target.

In today's race, Ashley was third with a time of 4min 27sec. Last year, he did this time with a lot of speed workouts and near the Inter-Varsity race. Today's time is a personal best time with no speed sessions ever given to Ashley and he felt the future looks good for him to get much faster. However, he said that today's race was the last race of the season for him as he prefers road races, marathon, half-marathons and cross-country from now onwards. He has requested earnestly to me that he wants to do that as he feels good running overseas and races which have road runs for competition.

Picture 3 - (Left to Right) Mun Yong Liang, Ashley Liew, Nathaniel Wong and S. Jeevanesh

As for S. Jeeva, he has no intention to keep improving in 1500m as his love for running is more for running in road races and in the long-distance races, he is just wishing to be a distant runner running 5km and 10km locally and overseas, preferably on roads. To be an 800m and 1500m, he would rather go overseas to train just like what Chamkaur Singh did.

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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.