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)
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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.