KL International Towerthon

Took part in the KL towerthon last sunday. nothing much to report. The pictures will do justice of the race reporting.

the view of the tower from afar. all 2058 steps

Men open start

iwata san

sifu razani. 3rd in men junior veteren category

abg nas and his trademark tee

abg wankaren's dad
Brooks running club member. Mr ho kney kuen. 1st for men sr veteren

mariana. 3rd place for women open

ashley. 5th placing for women open

fong- 24th placing women open

28th placing for women open

karen siah
dino's lil bro

KL towerthon pics by courtesy of pmtey. taken from http://pmtey.multiply.com/

Great Eastern Run Pics

Pics courtesy of Jason Lee/ Hon You from pacesetters club:

GE 20K Start

Anne Qi Hui Date: won women open 30k

Devamani Sothie: running barefoot, 2nd place women veteren 30k

Hafiz Wong and Shahrulhaizy

Don Khor

Cecil Cheong

Shahrom Awea

Mariana: women open 20k, 3rd place

fong running the 30k

me running the 20k with a 30k bib number that ash gave me 5minutes before start. That's how I get a free PowerGel at 10km mark. Would have died without it. hehe. managed 17th placing with a timing of 2 hour 04 minutes.

the 30k and 20k finishing

one for the sponsors. Thank you PowerBar

PowerBar Elite Team 2008/2009

I didn't have my camera with me (oh wait, I don't have one~! ;p)

Anyways, pictures curik from www.pipot.com

PowerBar Elite Team 2008-2009 comprises of 42 members, Le Tua cycling team and Asics Running Team. Its a very very big family!

Great Eastern 30K run

It was a last minute decision to join GE run because i just had a minor operation to take out a lump on my right breast the saturday before (fibroidenoma it is called, non cancerous lump but advisable to be taken out). Doc says I shouldnt be running for at least 10-14 days..when he told me that, in my head, i was counting the days to GE from Sat the 12th. 8 days exactly but guess im too stubborn... (but i did very light training the entire week so i guess its ok). Anyway, I did only 20k.. not 30k..

So came sunday morning, Saiful picked me up from bangsar n we went to lake garden together. I never ran hartamas double hill before so i had no idea what the route was like. I started in front with Mariana... but decided to take it easy with a consistent pace throughout the race. n that is exactly what i did. First 10k was about 57mins, but i guess the hills must've slowed me down a lot coz i finished the race in 2hour04 mins. a much slower 2nd 10k. But overall, im quite happy i finished the race comfortably.

During the entire race, I saw a lot of familiar faces: azwar, fong, saiful, abu, adzim, jaja, karen, ahtiam, awea, shazly, bacin etc2... n many2 more..

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I mentioned in earlier post that I had good news...

well, I got into PowerBar Team Elite! the better news is that the contract is for 2008 n 2009! cool or what.

2007 in Review

2007 came and went by just like that. I will be 23 in 2008 and doing my final year final semester in uni. if everything goes well, I'll start working by the second half of the year. im so not ready for the 'real world'. huhu~

2007 has been a blessed year for me. I did my 8 months industrial internship in one of the best international oil and gas company- Schlumberger WTA Sdn Bhd. Being away for 32 weeks meant I had to forgo competitive racing for a while but I made the best out of the remaining half of 2007 when i got back. It is definitely a more relaxed year compared to 2006.

I was awarded UTP best athlete of 2006 in April. don't know if my achievements in 2007 is up to comparison. As i mentioned, it has been a relaxed year in terms of racing.


Races I've done in 2007:

Rowing:
ASEAN Varsity boat race, Putrajaya
UNITEN invitational boat race, Putrajaya
South East Asian Rowing Federation (SEARF) Championships, Pattaya

Adventure Race:
Sabah Adventure Race, Kota Kinabalu
Perhentian Island Challenge, Terengganu
Labuan International Sea Kayak Challenge

Triathlons:
Miri International Triathlon
PD international Triathlon
UM duathlon

Running races:
Adidas King of the Road 10km
PJ Half marathon 10 km

Hopefully the arrival of 2008 brings a whole new dimension of success, health, prosperity and happiness. Crusing into the 1st week of January and I've already received a good news. ;) hopefully there are more to come

Planned for an early 13k run this mornin (note: 'planned'), only managed to get me lazy ass outta bed at 8am. Went running outside UTP, around Lembayung Lake, an out and back route. Total duration= exactly 1hour02mins. Probly about 10k++. This is me long run for the week. Gonna start training under Coach Alvine next week. wooott~

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For me 22nd birthday, mom given me Rm 500. so i figured, since me nokia N73 is giving probs.. runnin out of memory bla3.. Im gonna get me an upgrade. probly 1Gb or 2Gb memory card. and im looking for a trail running shoes for adventure race. been eyeing this Brooks Grit: Cascadia 2. wicked! more info in http://www.brooksrunning.com/

Sabah Adventure Challenge 2008

Got up at 730am this morning, went for a run, forgot my watch, so I didnt know how long I ran, roughly 40mins maybe. 6 and a half loop around the padang. A good start to build my fitness base. wanted to swim but forgot my speedos. blahhh~

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on the other hand, i signed up for Sabah Adventure Challenge 08. An awesome 3 day adventure race from 21st -23rd of March 2008. Diciplines include, mountain biking, trail running, tubing, onroad biking and running, ropework, orienteering etc. The race is in a team of 2. So Mansor and I signed up. This will be our 2nd time doing SAC. SAC07 was really fun. We were almost last on the first day coz we messed up the orienteering part big time, but came in top 5 in the 2nd and 3rd day, after figuring out the maps.

Next year's race will be a totally different challenge altogether because it will be revolving around Malaysia's highest peak- Mount Kinabalu. A high altitude race, what could be more challenging??? See you in Sabah!!

more info regarding the race at http://www.sabahadventure.com/

pic from SAC 07:

kayaking

trail running, river scrambling etc

mountain biking