Registration: Bidor Half Marathon 2010

• Date: 25th April 2010 (Sunday)


• Venue: Dewan Muhibbah Bidor, Perak


• Time: 7.00am


• Organizer: Bidor Runners Sports and Recreation Club, Perak


• Closing Date: 5th April 2010


• Registration Form: Bidor_Half_Marathon_2010.PDF

Putrajaya Night Marathon 2010

Since my 1st unsatisfied full marathon result in Standard Chartered KL Marathon (SCKLM) 28-Jun-2009, I keep remind myself to overwrite this "dirty record" of mine as soon as possible. Penang Bridge International Marathon (PBIM) 22-Nov-2009 and Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon (SCSM) 6-Dec-2009 is my opportunity. But unfortunately, I am not well train enough to revenge for my full marathon record during the above two events.

There comes Putrajaya Night Marathon (PNM) 6-Feb-2010, 3 weeks right after New Balance Pacesetters 30km 17-Jan-2010 which is just nice for me to train up.

Thanks to Kok Yik advice, I prepare my full marathon with at least done three 30km long slow distance (LSD).
1) Done outside my house. (18-Dec-2009)
2) Done at Bukit Aman - Sri Hartamas route. (10-Jan-2010)
3) New Balance Pacesetters 30km race. (17-Jan-2010)
I feel like want to train one more 35km LSD, but I fail to do so due to some minor injury right after the 30km race.

30km is my longest distance to run non-stops. Previously I can only run 27km non-stops during SCKLM. I really no idea how many km I can run non-stops in the coming PNM.

Finally the big day arrives and I know I′m going to renew my record. I set two targets for myself:
1) To finish within 4 hours (sub 4).
2) To finish within 4 hours and 30 minutes (sub 430).
Of course I only take sub 4 target as a bonus. My main target will still focus on sub 430.

It is a night marathon, so I take as much rest as possible in the morning till afternoon to get myself fully prepare. Eat and drink carefully, go clear off all the big or small business, then depart to meet my colleagues and go Putrajaya.

We all Cari runners stand nearby to start together. 8pm, the race start.

I and Michael start by following Peter pace. But it only last for 2km. Then we meet Jessica, after follow her pace for 0.5km yet we decide to cross her. Here onward, we are counting on our own watch, we follow nobody. The whole 42km is full of signboard on every 1km, it make us easier to control our pace.

At the beginning, I′m actually following Michael pace. I keep on recalculate the pace on every 1km. We maintain 5:30pace most of the time. Actually I quite worry about this speed, I scare I will cramp later on. But I has no choice, I rather run with a partner than running alone, at least we can remind each other when either one of us is too slow or too fast. So, I just keep remind Michael to slow down when our pace is less than 5:30.

We are doing well until 21km in 1:57. I can feel that Michael speed had slow down. This is the first time I remind him to speed up. After a while, a girl cross us, I remember she is one of the top runners during New Balance Pacesetters 30km race, so I ask Michael to follow her together. Michael refuses and asks me try follow myself. I can see that Michael is tired. Maybe he has not enough rest this afternoon.

I start follow the girl at 26km. At 28km, I feel like my leg is going to cramp soon, so I try to eat energy bar which was sponsor by my colleague - Jafelyn. After eat half, my legs feel better right away. So I keep the others half for later use. At 30km, there is Power Gel provided. I use it as well. 31km in 3:02, judge by the time, sub 4 seems like possible. So, I decide to cross the girl and speed up.

31km onward, I run alone, I also take the remaining energy bar. I really have not much energy left to do any speeding, what I can do is just to open my legs wider to avoid my speed to be slow down too much. This is one of the training I had during interval run.

37km, 5km more to go, I′m so suffering. One thing lucky is that my legs didn′t cramp until here. Maybe is because I restore water on every single water station, drink as much waters as possible. But then, I fail to restore water on the second last water station. Many cups is empty, really no idea what the people there doing. The girl I follow just now also cross me here, seem like I speed up too early, now I had no energy to follow her anymore.

39km in 3:49. I′m having a 7:00pace at that time. 3km more to go mean I will finish in 4:10, sub 4 seems impossible. Due to my bad habit of giving up easily, again I choose the not so suffer way where I begin to walk after running non-stops for 39km.

42km in 4:19:41, I make it to sub 430 and successfully renew my full marathon record from 6:16:29 to 4:19:41, really happy for the achievement although is suffering.

Details timing:
5km - 0:27
10km - 0:55
15km - 1:23
20km - 1:52
25km - 2:20
30km - 2:49
35km - 3:21
39km - 3:49
42km - 4:20 (Last 3km walk)

City Day Relay 2010

我，Kok Yik和Michael上星期日参加了这个3 x 3km的接力赛，地点在Stadium Putra Bukit Jalil附近。

5:30am：
正要出门时就收到Kok Yik的morning SMS，我就回他说我来着。

6am：
过去载Kok Yik和Shirley。

6:20am：
在7 Eleven买早餐时，Kok Yik说Michael没有回他的morning SMS，我就call去看看啦。

7am：
我们三人终于集合了，就等比赛开始。其实在比赛前，我们就已经分好棒次了。Kok Yik开头，我第二棒，然后Michael收尾。

7:30am：
比赛要开始啦。举办当局叫全部men open第一棒的去列队，Kok Yik就过去了。

BANG!的一声，比赛就开始了，我也按了我的计时表一下。

过后第二棒的我也被叫去列队了。Michael站在我旁边，我们两个都在那里喊紧张，一直期待着Kok Yik的回来。

其实我当时不只紧张，我还很兴奋，好像中学时的接力赛，很刺激。

7-8分钟过后，有几个人跑回来了，真快。我都没有注意他们的样子，只听到有人交棒时跌倒的声音。

场面很混乱，人挡人，我要看Kok Yik回到来了没都难。还好Michael和Shirley都站在我附近，大家一起帮忙看Kok Yik。

忽然，Shirley对着我喊：“来了，来了”。我看了下，真的是Kok Yik回来了，我就准备去接棒。

交棒顺利后，我就冲着下坡路去。过后一直绕着Stadium National Bukit Jalil的路，依然保持着全力冲刺的速度，途中越过两位跑者。

一出大马路时，应该是1km后，全身酸到不得了，很明显是冲过龙了。我就开始慢了下来，放大脚步，用跨步来跑，慢慢回气。

突然有位跑者跨步越过我，脚步很大。我也只能无奈的被他抛离了，幸好只是一位。

过了上桥路段，我已经能看到终点了。最后的下斜坡就一路冲到尾，交棒给Michael。

Michael接棒跑了后，我休息了一下就走去终点等待按停我的计时表。最后，Michael以00:33:29冲线，排名14。

赛场中也遇到一些Cari Runners，有women open的队，就是没有见到mix team的代表。

当然最感谢那两位FOC的摄影师，大家辛苦了。

拿了奖牌后，我，Kok Yik，Shirley和Michael就去Sri Petaling吃点心，过后就回家了。

KL Masters City Day Relay 3 x 3km 2010挑战成功！