Standard Chartered KL Marathon Results & Photos

The official results are out, but it looked to simple and doesn't tell you much. Not even how many people has taken part in your category.

Please click on this link for RESULTS

For photos, please click on this:-

1. Marathon-Photos.com - will need to purchase the photos

2. PMTey3

3. Run2Chuah

4. Through My Eyes - will need to purchase photos

5. Malaysia Runners Network - FB page created by Mr Siew Chee Meng
6. SK's Public Gallery
7. Kwang Leng's Site

My official results - Half Marathon:

1:36:21 - Gun Time

1:35:27 - Net Time (Took me more than a minute to start line!)

Rank - 44 (Half Marathon: Total-3763 runners, 2878-M, 885-W)

Thanks to QQLai

Thanks to Winnie for this photo

This Is What They Do At The Finish Line

I was at the finish line to witness some of the runners crossing the finish line and I stumbled upon this guy who was holding a chart. A close look at it, this is what he was doing........

Looks like New Balance leading the way. Surprisingly (to me), Nike is 2nd on the list. I thought adidas would have fared better than them. Asics doing well too in spite of the high price tag. Maybe most of them are foreign runners, cos you probably can get it much cheaper in other countries.

Standard Chartered Kuala Lumpur Marathon 2010

Woke up early today at around 4.10am thinking I could rush to park below the High Court. When I got out, it started raining and worst of all, the police and DBKL already blocked the access to the carpark. Had to make one big U-Turn towars Bukit Aman to find parking. Luckily got a parking at DBKL's public gym.

Met up with Ray and Mich before walking towards Dataran Merdeka. I had to deposit my bag at the baggage counter before heading to the starting line. Queues at the baggage counters were long and by the time I got my bag checked in, the crowds at the starting were huge. So I had to squeeze my way thru to get as close as possible to the starting line but never got close to it. Anyway, wasn't too worried about it as I wasn't aiming for anything for this run. Mileage has been low for me in the past months due to illness and injury. So just using this as part of my training.

Gun went off, took me a while to get to the starting line and also getting thru the crowds after. Managed to get thru the human traffic after about 1.5km. Thereafter, just maintain my pace and not trying to push too hard. Caught up with couple of friends along the way, Adam, John, Daniel, etc. I guess I could have saved up some energy if I was standing in front at the start. Met Elmer to when we got on to Loke Yew Road near UE3. Haven't seen her for a while and she told me she just did the London Marathon and cracked her PB.

Most part of my race, I had someone to pace with. At first a Caucasian, who accompanied me for most earlier part of the race till UE3, then it just followed by some others I caught up with. There were couple of guys who overtook me but even if they did, i think I managed to catch up with them later on. Guess starting from the back helped me a little.

Picked up my pace as soon as I reached KL Tower since it wasn't too far from the finish line. Saw couple of FMVs (Full Marathon Virgins) - their T-shirts, along the way and just gave them some encouragement to go on. Then saw one of the Singaporean girl (whom I've seeing a few times in local races) just in front and I was just focused in overtaking her. Only managed to do it some 500-600m away from finishing line.

I saw the clocked ticking at 1:35 and was pushing hard to see if I can clocked a sub 1:36, but gave up with 100m to go. Just ran out of time. Anyway, pretty happy with my timing but I was pretty tired and my left foot started to hurt after a short rest.

Crowds cheering on runners at the finishing

Runners lining up for water at the finish

Kids Dash event

Hopefully can build on my training from here but foot not looking that good at the moment.

Here are my splits & average Heart Rate for the race today (based on gun time):

23.12.44 - 0:23.12 (05.0km; 153bpm)
26:13.82 - 0:49.26 (10.5km; 157bpm)
23.03.29 - 1:12.29 (15.5km; 158bpm)
04.23.94 - 1:16.53 (16.5km; 161bpm)
19.25.22 - 1:36.18 (21.178km; 161bpm)

Here are other elites' results:

Full Marathon Open (Men)
1 Nelson Kirwa Rotich Kenya 2:16:44
2 Lilan Kennedy Kiproo Kenya 2:16:55
3 Luka Kipkemboi Chelimo Kenya 2:16:56
4 Chepyegon Daniel Kipkorir Uganda 2:17:05
5 Julius Ndiritu Karinga Kenya 2:17:48
6 Robert Kilagat Kosgei Kenya 2:18:34

Full Marathon Open (Women)
1 Goitetom Haftu Tesema Ethiopia 2:46:44
2 Yenealem Ayano Buli Ethiopia 2:46:53
3 Marta Markos Ayele Ethiopia 2:46:57
4 Meseret Hailu Bebele Ethiopia 2:47:43
5 Jacquline Nyetipei Kenya 2:47:49
6 Fridah Chepkite Lodepa Kenya 2:48:06

Full Marathon Malaysian (Men)
1 Shaharudin bin Hashim 2:39:38
2 Muniandy Ramadass 2:43:06
3 Subramaniam A/L Rangar 2:46:09
4 Fabian @ Osmond bin Daimon 2:51:00
5 Casey Lim Khon Seng 2:53:27
6 Jasni Khairil bin Jamaluddin 3:05:08

Full Marathon Malaysian (Women)
1 Tan Bee Kiang 3:36:36
2 Tan Lee Chin 3:43:19
3 Amutha Arumugam 3:48:14
4 Julia Lim Lee Ching 3:51:11
5 Tan Man Hua 3:57:30
6 Vijaya Kalah A/P Tanabal 4:06:03

Full Marathon Veteran (Men)
1 Prasoet Phaisan 3:00:32
2 Ong Chin 3:06:00
3 Khor Ngee Leong 3:08:53
4 Tobias Frenz 3:09:52
5 Adam Osman 3:15:48
6 Gary Lew 3:19:09

Full Marathon Veteran (Women)
1 Hayley Holle 3:15:14
2 Julie Foreman 3:28:27
3 Dai-Siou Yu 3:29:04
4 Tan Man Hua 3:57:30
5 Roda Mariano Ramos 3:59:34
6 Lim Lee Ping 4:08:02

Half Marathon Open (Men)

1 David Kipkirui Mutai Kenya 1:09:36
2 Hillary Lagat Kenya 1:10:03
3 Mok Ying Ren Singapore 1:10:22
4 Muindi Onesmus Muasya Kenya 1:10:41
5 Tarus Johnson Kipkosgei Kenya 1.11:08
6 Keter Kenya 1:11:31

Half Marathon Open (Women)
1 Eunice Nyawira Muchiri Kenya 1:23:20
2 Mary Grace Baylon Delos Santos Philipines 1:26:16
3 Noor Amelia Bt. Musa Malaysia 1:28:58
4 Jepleting Maiyo Kenya 1:29:30
5 Irine Jeptoo Kipchumba Kenya 1:29:49
6 Janna Hinz Germany 1:32:03

Half Marathon Veteran (Men)
Unavailable

Half Marathon Veteran (Women)
1 Yeung Mei Lun Melissa 1:42:35
2 Agnes Tee Yoke Loi 1:52:04
3 Chong Swee Ying 1:52:25
4 Sandra Olivia Roberts 1:54:17
5 Andrea Holthusen 1:56:15
6 Wendy Wong 1:57:07

P/S: Saw in some of the updates in facebook, a young guy (25 years old) passed away running the 10km. Could be due to heart failure. RIP Lim Wei Ji. Please click on the link to find out more.

My Bib And Racing Pack

Here's what is inside the racing pack:

Notice the Power Bar? Well actually I didn't know about it till I walked passed the Power Bar booth outside the stadium. And at that time they were already packing up. The lady at the counter was asking me if I was running the full or the half marathon. I told her that I have 2 full and 2 half marathon bibs with me. So she gave me 4 pieces of Power Bar. I think a lot of people would have missed it if they were walkign out elsewhere, which I've seen a lot of people did.

Saw in their facebook page, there were a lot of complaints about the Power Bar team packed up early eventhough the bib collection for the day ends at 8pm.

Bib Collection For SCKLM And A New Shoe

Got to Stadium Titiwangsa at around 3.30pm and thought I could get the collection of the bibs done in a short time. Queue wasn't long at that point of time and true enough I got the bibs picked up in no time. However, there was a glitch. The guy at the counter told me that Ray's registration was incomplete and I had to go to the Information Counter to get it checked. While they were putting together the racing pack, I looked back to the info counter and the queue was a long one. Once I got the racing packs, I joined in the queue. It was a very very long wait. Got the chance to chat with some runner while waiting. Found out from 2 runners that they have been doing a lot of 10k race and one of them is thinking of moving up to a longer distance next year, Another one will try to lose more weight. As he mentioned he already lost about 20+kg. Another guy has done a few marathon races. As we neared the counter (after an hour of waiting), one of the official there called out for half marathoners waiting on the queue. He then mentioned that they can't solve the problem they are facing today and we may have to come back again to collect it. One of the guy I talked too, he was pretty pissed off when he was told that they ran out of running bib no for full marathoner and requested him to come back. I think he just walked off. Not sure he'll be running. Guess this is not a good start for the new organising committee. Lots of pissed off participants! And  heard the queue was even bigger earlier in the day as a lot of runners turned up to collect it today.

By the time I was informed of the bad news, it's already passed 5pm and getting out of KL at this hour, will be a tough thing to do. So I had a drink at the cafeteria next to the stadium. Then saw Mr Wan coming out for a drink and he said, " When I go back tonight, I won't be checking my Facebook!" Haha.

Since Titiwangsa was near KLCC, I decided to head to the adidas store there. I ended adding a new line to my running shoe collection. More of a stability cushioned shoe, Adidas Supernova Sequence 2. Of course, I don't have the money to buy it. It was the gift vouchers I got from our team's 2nd placing for Energizer Marathon Relay. I was aiming to get a racing flat but all they had of the adizero models were Boston and Tempo. In KLCC, they don't even have the Boston model. Not sure where they are keeping all the racing flats? Anyway, since I need to take care of my injured foot and now has spread to my upper calf, getting a more cushioned shoe seems to be better off if I were to increase my mileage soon. Well, I actually wanted to buy the other model, Adidas Supernova Glilde because of the colour (orange) but this one seems more comfortable.

Adidas Supernova Sequence 2

Adidas Supernova Glide

Somehow I feel Adidas Malaysia is actually bringing new updated colours each year rather than increasing the model lines. Not sure, maybe I am wrong.

Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2010 Route

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