KL Marathon 2010

Woke up to find that it had rained and weather was great! Hopefully it will last throughout the run. The cough was still there, the legs were a bit sore from the past 2 days of walking throughout KL but spirit was high. No tourist runner today. It was going to be a serious run. Applied the Jump Start, the T-Max and for good measure – a new weapon in my run SBO – put on a pair of Zoots Compression Calf Sleeve and away we went.

Met up with 2 sgrunners, Mahesh and Irene at the hotel lobby, proceeded to Winsin Hotel to met up with Taz and Shut and we reached the start ground a good 30 minutes before the start. The crowd wasn’t so big and so we were able to walk up to about 30 metres before the start line before we stopped. Not elite no need to squeeze to the front.

Start off cautiously. In fact too cautious. Took over 7 minutes to cover the 1st Km. The idea was to run a paced race and hopefully finish in under 2 hours. The weather continues to hold. It was cooling, chilling at some points but the route itself was hell.

Not Again!

3 more days to go before KL marathon and *)#^%$ I am fighting 2 battles against a flu/cold bug and a new problem on the leg!

Things seem to be all rosy after the Passion Run. All the previous problems seem to have resolved itself and I was so looking forward to my first oversea run this year.

And now it seems there is a flu bug going around. Many of my colleagues are down. I have a sore throat, a cough and a very itchy nose. Damn! And to make it worse, the left leg has develop a new problem. There is a lump of hard muscle(?) just on top of the calf and below the knee joint. And it hurts when I go down staircase or get up from a sitting position! Double damn!

Looks like I gonna be a tourist runner on Sunday!

Simple Run?

Come to think of it, this is my first time participating in a sgrunners's running event. The previous time I was either kapoing around or missing in action.

Anyway, those koonky people called it a simple run. Now I really don't understand why cause it was pretty complicated. First, we had to wear the event tee (another first for me), then we had to remove our watches and whatever timing devices including phones. Then we were only told the route on race day and finally we had to guess the time we will take to complete the race and then try to run and finish as close to the guessed time as possible. Huh? sound complicated right? Ha ha ha.

But heck, apparently a lot of other don't think so and decided to take part.

Photo by Kelly

And yes, it was fun. Which is how all races should be. Fun for everybody. Well done to the organisers!

Sze Mak Chaim Races

'Sze Mak Chaim'  is local lingo (Hokkien) for "eye cyst or sty'. There is this local grandmother's tale or urban legend that if one were to peep or see someone naked, he/she will get a cyst or sty. I suppose the purpose of this urban legend is so that children do not turn into peeping tom.

Now if this grandmother's tale is true and these 2 races were to ever be held in Singapore, there will be plenty of people going around with a cyst in the eye and the eye doctors will have a field day!

Ing Bay to Breakers 12km Race

World Naked Bike Rides

But of course the eye popping question will be - will there be anybody here in sg who will dare to take part in it?