Tuesday, February 13, 2018

KL World Urban Run 2018

A race which held 1 week before 2018 Chinese New Year...
Quite long that i didnt join races after Sunlife resolution run on early Jan 18...
Kinda like loose contact to the ground...

But that shouldn't be the issue for runner like me...
kinda boring as well as keep training daily...
before the race seen through the map...

can see that a lot of turning and hilly route in Botanical Garden...
i wasn't really up to the mark for the hilly route...
well... should brace for it...

Thanks Mr Moey family for helping me and 10 on the bib collection...
as the week before 10 was coming to Sg thus unable to collect...
Night before race, reached TBS at around 12.30am...

Slept for around 3hours then went for pre-race preparation with lil bit of bread...
As usual reach starting point and met up with some familiar runners...
Sudden informed by Choi Fern's Xiao didi Xiao Chan that 10k runner need to get chip...

what??? how come got such late changes in this kind of important thing...
they should have distributed during bib collection and not 30min before race started...
lucky is the queue seem not so long...

if such incident happened in Spore...
i bet there will be big Hooha here and there...
Like Yolo run & Sundown been a big thumb down by local runners...

As usual can see Kenyan runner in my 10k category apart frm 15k also...
trying to catch 4 of them for the first 2km...
then come into hill part that kill me the most for this race...

the 2nd group runners comprise of KL speedy youngster came into afterward...
their pace of 3:30 even during hilly part was too tough to chase...
was abit off pace from them...

but still trying to catch whoever in front of me...
keep maintaining the pace until a Japanese guy come from behind and overtook me...
his pace of 3:45 was quite comfortable for me...

and this has helped me to overtake few youngster...
was seeing Chan jun shen half way and pouring me some encouraging word...
though hes trying to run along with me...haha...

The japanese guy still a tough nut to crack and maintaining his pace till the end...
so near yet still far of the 3secs adrift from him...
for 2 consecutive races that i lost to front guy in around fews secs...

my final boost seem to be not in ideal condition...
then go back over to check 10 coming or not...
saw Danielle naant, in around 1min+ came chooi fern...

then in around 1min+ saw 10 and shes leading another top KL elite gal...
wow thats good performance from her...
may be some of them joining Sg Buloh run last night and unable to recover...

overall 10 has really perform beyond my expectation...
as for me a 6th placing which later part upgraded to 5th was a small bonus as well...
race organiser wasnt really verify winners...

 this has lead to chaos and confusion during prizes ceremony...
something that they need to improve on this...
its time to go kaikai...and celebration for Pre-CNY lol...

Happy CNY to all and wishing everyone & every runner always stay healthy in this Dog year...
As usual i hope that all of us always stay in good shape no matter how hard we train or race...
"Listen to ur body" is something we should always stick in our mind...



Photos courtesy frm 2009tonton, thanks Aunt Moey.

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