Putrajaya Half Marathon 2006

Full Marathon flag off
Kenny and his friendbefore masuk kandang
pacemaker and gangs
me with ah lai


New PR... Cinya happy...
this is one of the run i want to participate last year,
but dint join last year, coz not ready...
but today so happy and confident coz last few weeks train with few long runs,
and the result pay off with improvement of 14 mins,
somehow i must do more milage in long run,
i near hit the wall at 19/20km,
and one more thing i cant stand is blisters,
guess something not rite with my socks,
wet like water sponge, and causing blister, very painfull,
especially last few kms...

this morning 4am wake up, thanks to ronnie for the morning calls,
after breakfast go to fetch him, the meet up with cm at kajang tolls,
then we head to putrajaya, the drive was smooth,
and manage to find parking very near to lugage area,
so can snap some photo of the full marathon flag off at 6am,
as usual take so photo with the pacemaker friends,
grab a power bar,
then warming up and prepare for the half marathon flag off,

6:30am, the half marathon flag off,
as usual i like to start from behind... so run slowly, and pick up the pace slowly, only 2km into the run already feel pain on the knees, but i ignore it, just enjoy the run, arrive at the first bridge and it was like goin uphill, lucky got train hill running last few days, else i suffer, run steady when goin up and pick up speed when goin down, after goin down make a right turn, grab a blue ribbon,not from the Marshal, but i took it from the ground! why cant they have more Marshals? then arrive at the water station at 5km, have a sips of water and go on, then meet up with DR.Jamie, say 'hi' to him and go on, at 8km i was drafting behind a runner, just follow his speeds, at 10km water station, i took out my power gel, hidden under my cap haha... after take power gel manage to speed up abit, catch up with Kenny, under a bridge where he doing streching, then at the 16 km drinking stations, meet up with Grace, i have a drink and do some streaching, i scare hit the wall, then continue to run, take bath under water spraying hose, however i think its bad idea,coz it make my whole body wet, and felt heavy,
then reach a water station marked 38km, celaka i was fooled by it thinking 3 more km left coz thinking it was 18km, actually it was 4km left coz 42-38=4km not 21-18=3km, Ftaaa guys should put 17km marker for half marathon ma! cinya stupid one! if i the only one wrong then i am stupid lo, but many half marathon also being fooled! if u run like tired where got time wan calculate the kms le? so i turbo at 38km mark untill the then 40km, and guess wat? after the 40km mark all the runner turn left, coz being fooled thiniking 40km mark is the 2okm mark, then still got 2km left la... aiya.... felt like want to cry and give up... walk and run coz cinya hot lia, after the last water stations, slow jog and after last turn saw the finishing line lia, it near yet so far, increase pace and come to the finishing line, 2 h 5m 5 s(chip timing), 2 h 5 m 42 s(gun timing), after finish cinya fustrated, had to queue there to take medals, think wait for 2/3minutes there, if for those ppl pia kau kau lat in last 100 metres, sure pengsan if wait standing on queue, one more bad point of the organiser,

after take the medals, meet ronnie and sim, change cloths and go snap photos, we headed to puchong for breakfast before go home, during breakfast everyone, talk about the run and see photos in the digital cameras, it was an enjoyable sunday...

next week run, mizuno run...