Standard Chartered Marathon 2025

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Personal Record: 5hr:35m:48s 

This year's Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon timing has been the best in the last 13 marathons I've run. Lovely weather and also the organisers took away the hills. Very well organised, water points were excellent.

The 15 to 30 mins improvement of my usual timing resulted from a few things. I solved an issue that I had for probably more than a decade. Nausea after around 11 to 13km. I've been listening to KPop Demon Hunter's 'Free' for a while now, and it solved the problem; pretty magical. Finishing the last 5km with the original songs is also just unbelievably motivating. There's definitely a reason why their combined Youtube views alone is now more than 2000 million.

The other major change that I did was drastically increase fueling. Apart from additional 200g pasta carbo loading starting from Wednesday night and bread for breakfast before the race, Gu gels every 45mins, Salt Sticks every hour. And shout out to LUNA Sandals Retro Mono. All these things resulted in a dramatic difference in timing and comfort. Going forward, trying to improve 10/20km timings. Hopefully next year it'll be even better.

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Jeffrey Yen

Standard Chartered Marathon 2025

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