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Sunday, January 11, 2009
Friday, January 9, 2009
Larian Amal Seri Sinar 2009 – The Unofficial Site
After a few months of hard work, everything is ready and we can start to accept registration for the run. What a relief!
Entry Form – Click à
http://www.fileden.com/files/2009/1/9/2258942/Race%20Entry%20Form%20Version%202.31.pdf
This is the 2nd running event organized by us and this event will be much larger in scale compare to the previous event. The previous event "Taman Bukit Jalil Neighborhood Run", held in May 2008, was planned as a community project targeting to promote running and a healthy lifestyle to residents and casual runners around these areas. The organizing team had no pre-set targets to meet as most of the sponsors were friends and running mates. We did not plan to do any promotion but the participation (in term of participants, organizing committee and sponsors) was overwhelming.
Larian Amal Seri Sinar 2009 was planned much earlier when Pertubuhan Amal Seri Sinar (PASS) agreed to provide the fund sufficient to get the ball rolling. The title of the run was decided and the theme should evolve around what PASS does. "GREEN" was chosen and the emphasis is on "RECYCLING", recycling should be more comprehensively meant to include the 3R (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle). We have to wait till the event day to determine how successful we can promote the 3R, but for the runners, the event will definitely GO! GO!
One of the difficult task is to set the entry fee, neither it can be too high nor too low (we have no money to subsidize!). By setting the fee for the 10KM to RM25, the committee having some hard time trying to secure more sponsors to bundle a running vest and a pewter finishing medal to all runners so that it doesn't look exorbitant. By paying RM15 for other categories, the participants will most probably also receive a pewter finisher medal with an event T-shirt.
This event was planned very much earlier and the date was fixed on 15th March 2009 trying to avoid KLIM (At the time we were not sure this event will take off) and the Chinese All Soul Day. PASS managed to acquire the support from the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the appointment was made.
Why is it so late to publish the entry form? Since most of us are active runners, we were all very busy taking part in race all over the country, i.e. Penang Bridge, Ipoh KRI, Singapore Marathon (Off course Singapore is not in Malaysia), Malakoff 12KM, etc. By the time we realized that we were very late to finalize the details, it was already "Christmas". The date cannot be changed for many reasons as some being outline above, so we have to work through the NEW YEAR to thrash out all remaining issues.
For the details of the event, please down load the PDF Entry Form from the link above.
NOTE: The contents in this article are purely the opionion of the blogger and does not represent the view or stand of any other individuals, committee or organization.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Adidas Running Shoes Seeding Program Q1 2009
Hello Guys,
Good news for runners who blog or having their own webpage.
Adidas had once again brought in more highly innovative running shoes to be given away FREE to runners to wear-test them & to post in their blog a very frank & unprejudiced opinion about the shoes after 30 days ofusage.
One of the shoe that is included in this program is adiZero Adois that Haile Gebrselassie used at the 2008 Berlin Marathon setting a world record in the Marathon at 2hr 03 mins 58 sec.
The sizes are limited and I have them in size UK 5.5, 6.5, 7.5, 8.5 & 10.5. Those wishing to possess these shoes will have to comply with the following terms & condition :
1 ) Come to the adidas office to fit the shoes.
2 ) Undertake to post a comment in their blog
a ) about the Technical features of the Shoes upon receiving them
b ) about the performance of the shoes after 30 days of usage.
3 ) Must be a blogger or has his/her own website.
This offer expires on 15th January 2009 & the shoes will be given out on a first-come-first-serve basis. The program this year is only open to those who had NOT participated or missed out in this program previously.
If you are interested pls call to make an appointment as appended below
Office address:
adidas Malaysia Sdn Bhd
Block B , Level 4, Plaza Damansara
45 Media Setia 1
Bukit Damanasara
Kuala Lumpur
Tel Office : 03 - 20804843
Mobile No : 012 - 3503668
E-Mail : krishnan.karuppan @adidas.com
Best Regards
Krishnan Karuppan
Head of Running
adidas Malaysia
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Singapore Marathon 2008
I reached the City Hall Padang at around 4:30 am and there was another 1 hour before the race would be flagged off. Immediately checked in my luggage and headed towards the mobile toilets. Moved towards the staring area but the gate was not opened yet. Did some warm-up and at around 5.10 am I walked towards the start line when I found that runners were moving in to the enclosed starting area. The 1st chamber was reserved for the elite runners where the 2nd chamber seemed to be left empty intentional as a buffer zone to separate the elite and the rest of the runners. Just few minutes before 5.30am, the officials removed all the barriers separating the chambers and we were allowed to move forward behind the elite runners.
The gun went off sharp at 5.30 am with a brief count down, all runners heading west along the Raffles Quay. Took a U-turn at around 1.5 KM and headed towards the starting line along Robinson Road. I could see that there were still hundreds (perhaps thousands) of runners trying to pass through the start line.
I ran an easy pace and around an hour, I found myself running in the East Coast Park. As I moved eastward along the park, saw the elite runners returning on the other side of the park. I did not increase my pace because I knew that it was a long long way to go. It was quite pleasant running in the park at the dawn as I could see the sky slowly but surely became brighter and brighter as time went by.
Decided to take a toilet break at around the 18KM point, as I re-joined the race I soon saw Liew was returning from the other side. I estimated it was 3Km ahead of me! After taking the 20KM U-turn and running along the path closer to the sea, saw Victor Loh on the opposite side and trailing behind me about 1.5KM.
At around 8.20am at the 31KM, I turned into Stadium Road and found the road was crowd with the slower 21KM runners. I (as if running an obstacle race) have to duck around to find a clear path to move forward. My speed was affected by firstly my tiredness and secondly by the human traffic jam. Luckily it last only for about 3KM and then the full marathoners were separated from the half, immediately I tried to speed up a litter to compensate for the lost time.
As I was getting more and more tired, I hit the moving obstacles again (this time was much worst with thousands and thousands of 10KM women & 21KM runners) at the last 3 KM. Since I did not have much energy left to duck around, I just squeezed my way through the crowd. At one point, one young lady gave me a hard stare when my sweaty arm touched her “clean” shoulder.
At the 42KM mark, there was 192 meters more to run, the right lane was dedicated to the full marathoners, since there was so much space to maneuver, I increased my pace and sped to the finishing line where the clock shown 3:57:54. Although I was exhausted after the race but I felt quite relax and able to roam around the finishing areas. There were many queues for the 100plus drink and it took only a few second to get a chilling bottle. There was no problem getting a second bottle or more as the volunteer very effectively distributing the drinks.
The organizer really did a fantastic job, where you could found unlimited supply of banana and gels at the designated stations. The water stations were aplenty and the “extra long” arrays of tables could easily cater for a large crowd.
The graph below really shows that I was getting tired along the way as the pace decreases gradually.
The finishing medals and T-shirts were given out orderly as you walked out the enclosed area by returning the timing chips.
Collected back my luggage and rested for an hour without meeting any friends. As the weather became warm, and I decided to take the MRT back to my brother’s house.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
PBIM 2008 - Endnotes
The Finishing Area Early in the Morning
Since every runners talking about the water, or lack of it during the PBIM, we will stage a protest walk to the Queenbay Mall
Have to Continue even without water
Hey! Where you get that bottle of water?
Slow Jog in the Morning ?
Our Future Stars compete with the "Serious Runners"
I have to rush back for a drink!
How to complete the run without water?
What an victory, we are back safely with all the constrains!
There is all from me! Bye PBIM 2008!
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