Energizer Night Race

The Star - Wednesday December 30, 2009



Runners to don headlights in Energizer Night Race
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will have a second night marathon with the Energizer Night Race in Cyberjaya on March 27.


The brand manager for Energizer, Joshua Leong, said that the race would be different from the Putrajaya Night Marathon, which will be held on Feb 6, as the runners would don headlights supplied by the organisers.


“The headlights made by Energizer will be distributed to all runners and this will add to the excitement of running with the crowd at night,” he said.


“Our hope is to reach out to recreational runners and we expect about 5,000 runners to take part in the race.”


Energizer Night Race is a global event held since 2007 and it has created waves in countries like South Korea, Argentina and South Africa.


However, only the Malaysian edition of the race will feature the full marathon (42.2km) while others featured runs only up to 10km.


The half marathon (21.1km) and 10km race will also be featured in the race in Cyberjaya.


“We will also have stage performances by bands to liven up the atmosphere of the event as we expect the last runner to arrive at the finish line by midnight,” said Joshua.


Runners can register on the official website www.energizernightrun.com.my starting from Jan 10.

Other info:-

The minimum age for entry is 16 years, and there is no upper age limit. Those interested to run are encouraged to practice from the time of this announcement, advises Rustam Affandin Zaihan, the President of Pacesetters, an athletic group which is the event organiser for this race.

The circuit will appear something like the shape of the number eight. Medical assistance will be set up every 5 km, with water stations. Before the race commences, there will be a mini-concert, with local indie bands performing. Sports trainers will also be there to help participants warm up before the night run.

The entry fee is RM 50 for Pacesetter members (an athletic organisation which has been around for 25 years), RM 60 for the public. All registered particvipants receive a limited edition Energizer adidas running vest and many other free merchandise . Among the sponsors are Schick; venue sponsor, Cyberview Sdn Bhd; and Cyberview Lodge Hotel as the official hotel. There are discounts for runners who wish to stay the night.

Christmas Weekend & The Rest Of the Week

Geoff and Joyce got their new bikes as their own Christmas presents on Saturday. It seems everyone's getting a bike and here I am without a bike. Haha. Both got Raleigh bikes. Well, I hope you two don't keep the bikes at home only ya?!

Geoff taking out bike for test ride

Joyce proud of her new bike

Geoff admiring his new bike

I ran on Sun morning but was so tired after attending a party at Irene's place on Saturday night. Alden and Raymond were back from London and Hong Kong respectively for holidays. I started my run only at about 8.00am and it was a pretty hot day to run. I ran from home to Petronas Hartamas before turning back to LHDN Duta. That's where I saw Don running with another guy. I thought they even started even later than me. I was puffing so hard trying to keep up with him. While running with him, he told me he was already on his second lap of the Hartamas route as he was going for 40km run. Shit! that means when I was with him, he was already about 25km into the run. He was running like 44 mins to Hartamas Petronas station and 42 mins back to Bukit Aman carpark. And for some people who don't know Don, he is already 50 years old! Putting us, young ones, to shame isn't he?

Well that was my final run for the rest of this week, before Pacemaker Network Run tomorrow. I can't remember what distance we'll be running. I better go check. Haha. Too much work and couldn't wake up early to run. I guess I'm going into tomorrow's run to see how my legs are after the fall and lack of training. For those running or on duty tomorrow, see you at the run!

Befor signing off, HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

A New Toy As Christmas Present

Just came back from a Christmas Eve dinner organised by my sis's church, Household Of Faith (HOF). Had to rush from Cheras towards Holiday Villa Subang, picking up Mien Yee at Taman Jaya LRT station on the way. Federal highway was as usual, peanut butter jam! My car was moving slower than a tortoise for most part of Federal Highway, especially from Amcorp Mall onwards.

Anyways, glad that I arrived there just before the dinner started. After the dinner, there was a lucky draw session and I told Mien Yee that one our tickets will surely win. Well, we had to wait till the very last draw of the evening, the grand prize, and my name was called out. I didn't know what was it but it was heavy. Then Andrew, my sis churchmate told me this is what every runner wants after their run. (Apparently, Andrew is a keen runner. Ran more marathons than me and have signed up for the 84km Sundown Ultra in Singapore. I'll be seeing him again in Pacemaker Network Run on New Year's Day.) After dinner, I went into my car, opened up the wrapper and behold.....an Omron FOOT MASSAGER!! Comes in handy!

Well, am going to have my first session in a short while, while enjoying my TV. So anyone wants to come over for foot massage after run, give me a call. The charges are dirt cheap, RM5 for 20 mins! Hehe! Kidding!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all!

Malaysian Food & Recovery

There were couple of restaurants I visited in the last two days. One was lunch at "Taste of Foochow" near Pudu Pasar. Had Red Wine Chicken Mee Suah and Foochow Yanpi Wanton.

Taste of Foochow

Red Wine Chicken Mee Suah

Foochow Yanpi Wanton

Today, went for a site visit at Bandar Bukit Tinggi in Klang. Our technicians were there to do treatment in one of the shop. Since we drove all the way to Klang, Bak Kut Teh is a must. And so we had BKT for lunch!

Izad drilling a hole

Dried Bak Kut Teh

Soup Bak Kut Teh

On other note, in a space of a week after buying an adult bike with a baby chair behind the bike, Aaron bought another bike. This time a children's bike for his daugther, Haley. However, her legs may still be too weak to actually ride on it on her own.

Haley all smile with her new bike

As for my running, I have been resting after my long run on Sunday. It seems the fall I had last week was still a bother. So hoping to recover fully before running again. Feeling better today, so may go for a short run later.

What A Hectic Day!

I had a great track session together with Azri and Jessica. I woke up early at around 5.00am and managed to watch Liverpool beat Wigan 2-1. My left butt and part of my thigh were really sore due to the fall. I wasn't sure if I can complete my track programme. Reached Kampung Pandan at around 6.25am. Jessica and Azri were alredy there doing their stretching. Michelle was there too, together with Tony. Tony is guiding her through her track session. Not sure what she did that day but it looks pretty intense. Watch out ladies!

We started with our warm-up around the track for 4000m. Then did some 100m strides outs before we started out program of 16 x 200m, with 200m jog for recovery. I have not done this workout since my schooldays and now I can't even get my time under 35s. The best I could do was just 36s. The rest of it were around 37s-38s. Jessica and Azri had to cut down their repitition as both are still recovering from their injuries. As for me, I lost track of my repitition counts and ended up doing 19 x 200m, as I found out only yesterday when I was going through my stopwatch lap timings.

I went straight to work after that as it wasn't too far from Kpg Pandan track. Had my shower in the office. I had to follow one of the technician, Izad, out for termites treatment in a Semi-D house in Kota Kemuning. It's the first time I'm witnessing how the treatment is done.

Machine that injectes chemicals into drilled holes

Injecting chemicals into floors

After the chemical is injected, the holes will be patched using mixture of cements and colours simliar to the floor colour. I tried helping in patching the holes, but due to my lack of skills, it was a pretty tough job.

By end of the day, I was so tired that I fell asleep immediately once I was in bed. I woke up the next day and was still feeling sore in my legs due to the track workouts. I didn't want to do anything yesterday as I was still feeling tired. I went out breakfast with Geoff and Joyce in SEA park and after that took them to Merida bike shop in PJ. Geoff is thinking of getting a bike. Good for him....hope he doesn't think too long.

Salesman trying to convince Geoff

Our friend in deep thoughts. To buy or not to buy?

I went back after that and watch 2 episodes of Heroes and a movie. Had dinner with my girlfriend, sent her back and upon reaching home, went straight to bed. Body recovers really slow these days.

Falling On My Butt Yet Again!

Before going into the above topic, let me summarised the "waiting game" on wheter to run or not? Well physically I am ready to run today as I've only got an hour run in my program. Nothing too "painful" till I always find an excuse not to run. I've already skipped two training past 2 days due to torrential rain in the evening. Today was no different. Sky got dark by 4pm and it's just waiting to pour. It did initially. I was on the way back home thinking of hitting the treadmill which I dislike. Then the rain stopped so thought I just stopped by the Taman Pudu Ulu and run a few laps, maybe around 30mins before it rains again. But in the end, I managed to clocked in my targeted 1-hour run. I don't really know how far I ran, cause when I decide to run an hour, I just run as I feel. If I can go fast, then I'll go fast. I think this is a better way to train rather than following a measured route, and you just get discouraged if you don't meet your target time. Well I don't mean it's not a good idea, but better to mix up the training, eh? Anyway, track session is in my program tomorrow. Since one of my ex-colleague wants me to train him, I've scheduled a morning session before work.

Back to the title of my post today. What happened you may ask? Well, as I was running, I stepped on a very wet floor (and my shoe soles are already wearing out), I slipped and BANG! My left butt hit the ground. I was just 3 mins into my run at that time. I quickly got up and continued running, trying to save myself from the embarassment form onlookers. I jogged a few more meters ahead before stopping to check onthe injury, as I already felt the pain.  And this is the result:

Photo: Just below my left butt

Why did I say "yet again"? Well, I fell down twice from my bike, during my time in Melbourne, and landed on pretty much the same spot! Getting old maybe..... Anyways, it hurts as I stepped into the shower and I think I'm going to have a very sore butt tomorrow!

Rain, Rain, Rain!

Had to cancel my planned track session today as it's raining cats and dogs outside now. Just got back sending one of the staff here to pick up his new ride, the good old Honda EX5. I think this is the most trusted model of all time by far. Had to drive all the way to Selayang to pick up the bike, luckily didnt take long to find the place except being stuck in the traffic jam.

Earlier, me and Bernard were at Aaron's house to help move his aquarium base. We only managed to move the aquarium last time we were here. Also moved 2 TVs & two single bed mattress to give away to his staff. Well the base was just as heavy and due to the size, someone had to sit on the floor of the van. And it was Aaron, who insisted on it. Not me or Bernard's fault. : ))

Yesterday, we were at G Tower along Jalan Tun Razak to do a pest treatment. There were 48 rooms to be treated at one of the floors and there are 2 more floors which he needs to do. However, it was not ready yet at the time we were there. Anyway, the building will only be launched sometime early next year. We were informed 3 of the floors will be dedicated hotel rooms and the rest will be offices.

One of the show room

Bala doing the spraying of chemical

Should I leave now or wait for the rain to stop? I'm going to be stuck in the traffic anyway if I go back now. Might as well go for my dinner first!

Sunday Activities

I was on a solo long run yesterday morning. Met quite a few runners on the road along the way. Some were not doing the usual Sun long run as there were two events held back to back. One was the 12-hour walk in Putrajaya which started on Sat at 8.00pm while the other was the Chin Woo Biathlon on Sun morning.

After the long run, I made my way to Chin Woo Association to watch the biathlon event. This is an annual event which sees competitors swim 800m before completing it with a 7km run. I took part in the first edition. It was pretty embarassing for me at that time, as I was last out of the pool. Some even claim that I didn't even finish the swim leg as the judges were feeling tired of waiting. : )) Anyway, I was there to meet Jeff as well, who was keen to buy the Adidas tights which I was selling off. Got there in time to witness Iwata finishing first in the veteran event. I was told he came back to Malaysia just to support this event, which was organised by his nemesis in local tri scene, Don Khor together with Chin Woo Association.

A strong finish by Iwata

Don awaiting to hand out the finisher's medal

I went off earlier before the prize presentation as I had an appointment with my cousin and her bf. Took them to Alex's stall to have Sarawak Laksa and Tomato Kueh Tiaw. I had one bowl of Laksa and a bowl of Kolo Kueh Tiaw.

I went back to the Japanese anime DVD sales near Pandan Safari in Cheras and bought some more anime titles. There were more titles that I wanted to buy such as Gundam and Initial D (complete set) but both were more expensive. Might as well buy more titles with that price.

Some of the titles I got yesterday:

I think I can start opening a Japanese DVD rental shop soon. Anyone who wants to be my first customer?

I came back home feeling tired but watched a dvd on new Singapore movie called "Where Got Ghost?" It's a Jack Neo's production.

It was supposed to be a Ghost movie but this is a hilarious one. Those who hasn't seen it, go check it out. Of course must understand a little bit of hokkien and mandarin to watch it. Otherwise you got to rely solely on the subtitles! And usually in Jack Neo's production it has some elements of everyday life and morality tale. For this one, it's a three part tales. It reminds us about the consequences of greed, taking shortcuts in life and chasing after riches.