THREE O FIVE

UM Bukit Cinta has become my usual training ground these days. With a lot of training being done there, I'm quite familiar with it. Judging from the recent fitness I thought I could run with an average 4:30 pace in the Larian Gegar race yesterday morning but I couldn't because of some extra route that they added were just too hilly which I didn't account for. It was a very hilly race. It's the 2nd hilliest in my list so far. The first in my opinion is still the Taman Botani Shah Alam! The race started at the UM swimming pool. Not many fast runners joined this race as there were many races clashed yesterday so I could stick with the lead pack and count my position from the beginning. William and I ran neck and neck the whole race. We started with the slightly out of 10th positions and overtook people slowly. This route was damn crazy. We had to run the same route twice. At about 1 to 2km into the 2nd loop, we managed to climb up to 4th and 5th place and locked onto the...

I think if I said this October was the saddest month for our Malaysia running community, I think most of the people would agree. It was supposed to be my busiest racing month but end up I didn't get to run any races (only one 3km fun run in the end). All the races that I registered were either cancelled or postponed because of the stupid haze. One of the most important races for me, the SCKLM which was supposed to happen 2 weeks after my last race Cyberjaya Firefighter was cancelled too. Arggh... all my 16 weeks of hard work! SCKLM I'm not quite sure how I actually felt. I was actually not much affected by the cancellation compared to the others because I still have a goal race coming up in December so I don't think my effort and hard work are wasted but the sadness from the community spread like a disease. I was more or less affected by it. The SCKLM is one of the biggest running events in Malaysia. Many people deem it as their bread and butter race and some even set i...