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TMBT 2018 - 50km category

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We signed up for the race early this year in February, hoping to be fully prepared for it when the time comes. But a month later Fiza was hospitalized with a back problem and then she was busy with her classes & a new career. I also was buried with tons of workload, I always came home late and had to do my office works at home. It left us with almost no training. We only started training a month before the race with 3 times running a week for about 8-15km mileage without trail running. Yes, we didn't do any trail running at all this year. TMBT is well known as the most grueling trail course compared to any other trail event in Malaysia. There are many people who DNF even for the 50km and 30km category and immediately we regret we signed up for 50km, we think we will be DNFed too. To make it worse I left all my 20 packets of power gel given by Laif at home. Then Fiza's water bladder was leaking too. And I brought the wrong shoes for the race. All recipes for a disaster. We