A journey of my life

I think I never run half marathon in SCKLM before. My initial intention is to run full marathon but then Fiza asking me to pace her for HM. We target to run sub 2 but a month before the race she had an accident when her brand new KTM Duke 690R tilted over and landed on her feet. With swollen feet, she couldn't exercise and there goes our plan to clock sub 2 HM. Nevertheless, we had so much fun on the race day although Fiza wasn't fully recovered yet.

I never been to Perlis in my entire life. It was my first visit to a little state up north of Peninsular Malaysia which famous with her mango Harum Manis that can fetch up to RM40 per kilogram. First time also took ETS Thanks to Izzaty & family for being great host Visit to Padang Besar border with Thailand Awesome seafood treat in Kuala Perlis Half Marathon race

After missing three races due to haze in September and October, I was really looking forward to run this race although it was only half marathon distance. I started about 10 minutes late after the flag-off Easy route but weather was quite hot Thanks Aron for the photo It wasn't a PB but an enjoyable run 

This is recovery run after I ran a marathon on the previous weekend. Started from Stadium Kelana Jaya at 3am (yeah, we are crazy people who didn't sleep to run a race) heading to Subang Airport then to Ara Damasara before going back to the finish line at stadium. I clocked the fastest 10km (52min), I reached 15km mark in 1:27 hrs. At this point sub 2hr seems possible but I was bonked from 18km onward. Dang! Anyway, I still did my PB for half marathon in 2:15hr. A PB while doing a recovery run??? Unbelievable huh! Some of my running friends were there

Another race only two weeks after Tokyo Marathon. I still have flu and cough when I raced but I clocked 2:35, which is not too bad. This is the only race I have in March. I met many my running buddies at the event. Before Race During Race After Race

I've been running in S'pore every year for the past 3 years and all the events were marathon. So, I decided to run half this time. Main reason is I grew tired of running in ECP (East Coat Park). S'pore don't have place for people to run 42km. The only place available without having to close the road is ECP. Another reason I wanted to try half marathon because part of the running course is around Sentosa and inside Universal Studio Singapore. I've never been to this place before and I hope to take my kids to USS someday. Thanks to Kash for picking me up at Novena and drove me to the Marina Sands Bay for race kit collection. The start line for half marathon was at the entrance to Sentosa Less than 3km into the race, we stuck in human traffic jam! We had a chance running inside Universal Studio Singapore The road was so narrow, we could rub shoulders with the runners coming from opposite way The last 11km was on the highway to ...

Yeay, completed my third half marathon for this year! Actually, this is my first PBIM half marathon. I took part several times before but all in marathon distance. Then I thought, why not do half this time? Overall timing is not really impressive. Still far from my sub 2 hours target. There were many runners in half compare to full distance. I started at the back row and the road was very crowded after the start line I had to follow other people's pace, and as usual taking some photos along the bridge. After U-turn on the bridge I reached at kilometre 10, then I look at my watch and the timing was 1:12hr. Geezz.... I was so slow. From that point I increased the pace and started overtake all other runners. A few runners tried to follow my pace but I managed to drop them off... hehehe. Finally, crossed the finish line in 2:17hr. Woohoo... that mean I did negative split 1:05hr in the last 11km! If I could maintain the pace from the start I might be able to clock 2hr on the dot. Ma...