PD Tri - Carboloading Dinner

I forsee:

Swim 1.5KM : 40 Mins
Bike 40KM : 75 Mins
Run 10km : 62 Mins

Total time plus T1 and T2 = 3 hours.

Lets see if the Lulian Power will pull me through tomorrow.

PD Tri 2009, here i come.

Live In Expectation

On your training days and race days, expect the best day ever and there will be no distractions. When you live in expectation, you will also live in faith and you will attract the best of everything that is surrounding you.

Persevere Relentlessly

Often time, training will become hard. You Wonder - How can i do this? How long will it take me? Am i crazy to be doing this?

Stay on course. When your mental toughness is challenged, it is a sign that you are getting closer to victory. Continue to persevere relentlessly. Your rewards are close at hand.

10 Instead of 20.

Still searching. Morning rain did not help. Overslept. Had to be contended with a 10click (km) run.

Found no inspiration on run, at all.

Reminder For Myself.

MEX Highway - 90KM

IM2010 training started earlier than expected.

After 4 months of not riding any sort of bikes running on 700C tires and never used any clip ons...this morning felt funny.

Not only i struggled to clip on the pedal, i found it difficult to unclip as well.

Even balancing the bike became sort of a task.

At 0500, I started the ride from Damansara Utama, heading towards Hartamas via Pencala, That would had covered 10km. It took me 30minutes. I was that slow.

Met up with Ishsal, Senn, TSB and John Preston. John is a 12 times IronMan finisher and 2 times Kona Finisher. Colourful, certainly. He has imparted some tips to me as well, which i hope to put into action. One of them is to get a bike trainer.

As it is, i am still searching for inspiration for 2010. It will be hard, but i don't intend to make it easy either.


Long Road, but i will never be alone

Menu for Sunday - 20++ KM Run. Home - Pencala - Damas - Wilayah Mosque - Return Home.

Run starts at 0500. Gonna catch the much needed sleep.

IronMan 2010 : Bring It On.

Yearly ritual commitment made.

IronMan training shall commence in full force starting August.

Mon-Wed-Fri - Run +/-10km tempo/HIIT/Speed
Tues-Thurs - Bike +/- 70km Speed
Sat - Bike +/-1 120~160km
Sun - Run +/- 20~30km

Sticking to basic. Got to get my base back up again.

Sub 14hours in 2010 - Here i come.







This is my life.

This is my religion.

Standard Chartered Kuala Lumpur Marathon 2009

Marathon is an overused word to describe any run.

Marathon is 42km run (but if you are kiasu like some neighbours, it is 42.195km).

The event was named after the fabled run of the Greek soldier Pheidippides, a messenger from the Battle of Marathon to Athens. The historical accuracy of this legend is in doubt.

Just like IronMan, doing a triathlon doesn't meant that you are an IronMan. You are only an IronMan if you Swim 3.8km, Bike 180.2km and run 42.195km back to back within the cut off time. Anything less than that is just a branding. But of course, in this overly commercialised world, we get the HALF IronMan, and infact for the first time in IronMan history in Langkawi, 2010, the organiser even allowed RELAY IRONMAN!

Do we now call them IronMan Swimmer/Bike/Runner???

OK.

Wifey and Sis competed in the SCKLM last Sunday in the 10km category. They did not run a marathon. All they did was just 10km. But to them, the 10km is an exertion and a test for their own physical self.

Both has not and never ran more than 5km in the past 6 months. Both has not trained (i am guilty on wifey's part, my sis just ask my dad to pick her up when she walks to the mamak).

So, for them both to complete the 10km run for the first time in their life in 90 minutes, i would say it was an achievement of sort.

So, well done to both of you! You made me proud!





For all of you that heard about this race last Sunday. Just let me put it this way.

It was a total dis-organisation. It was almost a disaster.

Why is that?

The race weekend started on Friday for race kit collection.

The system were down. The electricity trip. The people at the counter wasn't ready. it rained. Then it became hot. Then they allow SC staffs to cut line. Then they misplaced runners' bib. Then, some of us, had to line up for at least 1hour on the average (i know at least 5 people that lined up for almost 2 hours).

They then went "manual". Organiser told the volunteers to give out numbers/bib to "cut the queue", resulting in more runners' bib being assigned to others. Resulting in more runners without bib.

Then they were told to return after 5.30pm Saturday - 30minutes after the registration officially closes.

Then, on Saturday morning at 0034hours, while i was doing some work, i received an email from the organiser informing everyone that there are still 5000bibs yet to be taken and they request that everyone come from 11am onwards.

The webpage stated 10am-5pm Saturday.

Now, who will check their email at 1am in the morning? Who check first thing in the morning if it is not a working day? How many have CrapBerry device?

UltraYip sms-ed me in the morning, i told him that it only opens at 11am.

"nola, the people taruk them to open at 10 already".

See what i meant?

So, given that Saturday's race kit collection went smoothly, everyone was ready to bury the hatchet, well, almost, until Sunday comes.

Sparing everyone the horrid details, basically, the run has all the element that "if something were to go wrong, it will".

It was the organiser's lucky star that saved their ownself.

Water ran out after 4hours 30 minutes from race start (Marathon runner started at 5am), meaning anyone that did marathon longer than 4:30 would not have water anymore.

Sweeper buses were seen picking up VOLUNTEERS up at 9.30am. Water ran out at KLCC as early as 9am.

Road were then opened at 11am.

Race official but two, left at 11am.

St John left at 11.30am.

Timing Chip fler removed their detector at 11.30am.

Finisher Shirts and Medal for 42km ran out at 11.30am.

Runners were still coming in at 12.30pm.

Race site closed at 1.00pm.

Last runner walked in dazed at 1.30pm.

Race book stated RACE CLOSED OFF AT 3PM!


Then, someone fired the first salvo at the SCKLM Facebook page.

Octagon & StanChart said nothing. No official statement.

Some statement were made, but it irked more people.

"50,000liters of water was provided".

WHERE?

"We are trying to find out what happened"

You meant YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT HAPPENED?

And today, i was not allowed to post in their page anymore.



You know what was the limit point for everyone?

We found out that the organiser for the 2008 Beijing Marathon was done by the same organiser and if you do read the comments, i don't blame you if you think this year's comment was an extension from last year from a different country!

Same Issues. Same Problem. Same Name.

I suggest to all of you that is reading this to just boycott next year's SCKLM.

No one is standing up to admit their fault. My take will be, if the event did goes well, StanChart WILL definately ride in the fame. But the event went so badly...NO ONE owns up!

Not even the PR company!

Nevermind la. Afterall, the MOU has been signed. SC and Octagon will afterall run this race for the next 9 years to come. MAAU will get back RM5Mill for "sports development", Malaysians are very forgiveable. "Tidak Apa". Semua Baik. No Problem.

This is one race i will stay far away if Octagon is still organising the race.

By the way, Octagon is a multinational company with 4 decades of experience of organising races and events world wide.

And they were sorely beaten by a motley crew of 12 that organised Xterra Malaysia.

Rick Ashley - Never Gonna Give You Up

Edited 3:39pm 30th June : News of his death might had been a rumour. KNNCCB to the person that spread it. Even The Star Reported it!

Too Young. Too Soon.

Rest in Peace Rick.