KL Half Marathon

Wow it's been ages since i last update my blog.. busy with past work and now adapting to new job! din do much training after my HK trip.. haha.. on and offs.. overall not so good in my progress...

Had a couple days of rest b4 gg for this trip.. Met up with our mbrs at Grassland golden mile.. Cm was there to send us off.. he can't join in cos of last min work... We have 9 ppl with us including me and Ong.. Coincidentally Francis, with his gf and friend were also in the same bus as us.. At 7am sharp, our bus went off..

Our guide for the trip is Alan.. haha very similar when we were in HK.. when he bought us ard.. We reached KL at ard 12pm and had lunch with Adam, his wife, Wong and Mr Lim b4 collecting our race pack.. We saw Laichee and Jerry at the center too! Also Kumaran fren's the Kenyans! haha...


We have a birthday boy for this trip! Adam's birthday! and we had a mini celebration for him b4 turning in for the race day!


As usual, Ong got up earlier to prepare.. haha i washed up and took a pkt of power gel... we walked abt 1km plus to the start pt.. just b4 gg to the reporting area, i had a very bad stomachache.. luckily the toilet is clean to use.. else i dunno how to do my race..

We started at 6.30am... i had my new polar watch, HRM and footpod with me.. heard there is no distance markers.. hope my footpod will come into good use.. :) as usual, i jsut ran as per normal.. heard my watch beeped at every km.. reached the 1st 5km at 35mins.. 7 mins pace.. din really plan out the timing i wanted to complete.. just run and complete... at one water pt, i was given a power gel, i took half of it and grasped a bottle of water.... cos it was quite dry... as i was abt to throw away the bottle.. someone shoutd " Jaime dun throw" haha was abit surprised.. and the next moment, Francis came up to me... haha.. he went ahead..

soon i saw Mr Lim in front of me.. we ran together for a while and i went on.. din chk on my watch until i passed the water pt towards the city... my watch shown 12km.. hmm was feeling abit weird.. cos seem to run for quite a distance already.. but i just ran on...

Near a traffic junction, Mak came up from behind and told me tt shldn't be any U turn at the ending pt.. but heard from Wong and Alan b4 the start of the race, tt there is U turn pt near the ending... i chked my watch again.. OMG.. i have been running for 2 hrs already.. and the distance is oni 14km.. was quite panic as the cut off time for half is 2.5 hrs.. but thinking back i cannot be tt slow also.. must be some calibration errors with the footpod.. soon i reach the finishing pt mark and went for my loop b4 the actual finishing pt! Timing @ the system... 2 hrs 19mins 11secs.. haha much slower than HK race.. Mak was saying i looked very relax during the run.. but contented to get my finisher medal haha.. tot i couldn't make it initially.. hehe

Overall race was quite ok.. just quite disappointed as there are no distance markers and calibration error with my footpod... but the eating and shopping trip after the race were very enjoyable and i was not so bothered by it at all.. haha :D

Distance covered: 21.195km __ Chip Timing: 2:18:30