i woke up at 6.30am on saturday morning preparing my stuff ready to go out waiting for sham at endah parade shopping mall (carefour). woke my baba up sending me to der place to wait for sham. while i was there at 7.10am, i had been waiting for him for more than 1 hour, jialat! hungry like kok! after his arrival in a gang with kamarul & omar, we were heading to subang jaya, looking for Azali, kak Wan & Afad. we moved from subang jaya by 8.45am, estimated we would there by 1pm or 2pm. while having a journey to penang in sham's van, had some hand-made sandwiches by sham, delicious!
when going out from der toll, finally i saw der bridge of penang! we had arrived penang by 2pm something. so der 1st thing we need to do ofcoz had to collect der bibs & goodies 1st at Queensbay Mall. they did very well in organising der bibs & goodies collection bcoz no need to wait for so long. juz after collected der goodies. besides, i saw Choi, Cheang, Chin and many more. i saw Afad did der foot type scanning at Adidas booth, i also wanted to try but had to wait quite long bcoz a lot of ppl queuing up waiting for a guy who is an expert on matching foot types with certain shoes explaining which type of shoes & what features should a runner who have different types of foot of runners. after der foot scan, stomach beating me kau kau liao! it was time for lunch at der food court down stairs.
after Queensbay Mall, heading towards our hotel Seri Malaysia, it is situated far from starting place (Queensbay Mall), instead of Seri Malaysia, we should have booked Crystal suite as it is few hundred meters away from der starting point, bcoz of sham's relative said she is studying in penang so she know where is der hotel near to Queensbay, it is near but not der nearest, jialat! made us have to wake up early morning bcoz der organiser would block all der road after 2am, so we had to wake up 12am something.
after checked in at der hotel, unpacked and arranged my stuff for tmr race. thought like wanted to take a rest, suddenly sham said uncle Alam Shah asked us to go out to have a tea at 5pm at a restaurant nearby, der nasi goreng cinya not nice, wanted to vomit! never mind lar juz eat nia! so no need to eat after that, could straight away take a rest. during der evening Radhi came, he could be said as a entertainer but cinya noisy while i was sleeping, i couldn't sleep bcoz of him, haiz.. talked kok for der whole night! juz slept only 1 hour or less, their phone alarm rang and woke me up at 12.15am, i really wanted to sleep more bcoz i was very tired but i had no choice to wake myself up, preparing stuff...
going out to Queensbay at 1.15am arrived at 1.30am, still early and still hunger for sleeping, i tried to sleep inside der van but really couldn't sleep! i came out from der van by 3.30am warming up myself stretching & running around der car parking. it was time to go to der starting point. there was a 'kandang' which required us to check in with giving them der reporting card, why they dun wan to do like KL's marathons which after der runners had reported themselves straight away can line up at der starting point? stupid!! made me so nervous climbing out der stupid 'kandang', after that der official asked us to go into der stupid 'kandang' again (climbed in again!) going through a space provided to der starting line, at that moment i was at behind liao! squeezing in trying to find space to der front row. while i was squeezing into der front row, suddenly der official gunned off! bang!!!!! i was 'kelam kabut' to start my watch! gzzz...
During-Race
i was very struggling at der starting where der runners from front pack blocked me throughout 2km, although i overtook many runners but i felt i was left behind liao, i could hardly run fast bcoz of der crowd, very exhausted! i wanted to pia faster but i kept reminding myself i must not run too fast bcoz i had to reserve energy for turning back. i continued running, setting my pace steadily. after awhile they provided us powerbar gel, i consumed it bcoz i thought i need more energy after covered up my timing after overtaking a lot of runners during der starting, i felt thirsty after consumed it, luckily there was a water station after 1km, i took a bit of plain water to reduce thirsty.
when going along der bridge, it was juz a straight road which required determination, endurance, patience, pacing with runners is crucial, there was breeze blowing when i was running along der bridge, very comfortable with it, meanwhile i smelled kind of smelly thing from der bridge juz like something burning, yiak! wanted to vomit! i tried very hard to follow others pace. der bridge is not fully flat, there is a long uphill where i would be very tired & a long down hill where i could relax a bit and ran faster. when making u-turn from der bridge, der volunteers especially der kids were cheering for der runners, 'come on! come on! u can do it! run faster!', i like them very much! if every race like that would be fantastic! after made u-turn, i increased my pace faster, in der middle of going back to Queensbay, i saw Mr Tay Poh Chye, i decided to pace with him, i wanted to say hello with him but he was running high at der moment so i didn't want to distract his concentration, after that i overtook him but a while later he overtook me back bcoz my pace slowing down a bit, salute him very much!
when going to finish running der bridge 4km to go, my old injury on my left knee came! i struggled at that moment, very painful but no choice i had to bear with it since it had juz had another few kilometers to go. pain was getting serious! slowed down a lot, out of my expectation. i still wanted to do my sub 2 hour 25 minutes for 25km, i tried very hard, beared with der pain, seemed like this few kilometers were very long for me, i thought like wanted to stop liao. 1km to go! i pia kau kau lat to finish der race! 500m! 400m! 300m! 200m! 100! used my remaining power to finish it! hooray!!!!!!
Post-Race
Event : Penang Bridge International Marathon
Date: Sunday, November 16 2008
Start Time: 3am (42km) / 4.30am (25km)
Start Location: Queensbay, Penang
Website : Click Here!
Reporting live from Penang!
Men Open 42.195km :3'08.04 - Richard Habeya, Pm26 (11th)
3'52.40 - Raymond Ng, Pm48 (23rd)
4'00.40 - Mohd Azali, Pm46 (29th)
4'04.49 - Frank Chong, Sub Pm6 - PB! (33rd)
4'28.42 - Yip Kit Weng, Pm9 (50th)
5'19.31 - Thurai s/o Sarasaidy (97th)
5'21.00 - Tey Eng Tiong, Pm22 (99th)
Men Senior Veteran 42.195km :
3'18.03 - Luc Bodart (12th)
3'45.29 - Tay Poh Chye (20th)
4'41.44 - Choi Chik Choy, Pm42 (66th)
5'36.34 - Chin Phoy Foon (Pg), Sub Pm3
6'23.45 - Cheang Meng Wai, Pm6
Men Open 25.0km :
1'45.30 - Mohd Radhi (15th)
1'49.21 - Mohd Syahidan (17th)
2'14.01 - Kho Kwang Leng
2'17.38 - Saiful, Pm45
2'18.13 - Hasrul Sham, Pm34
2'18.46 - Kamarul
2'25.37 - Mohd Fadhil Fadzil @ Afad, Pm57
2'26.32 - Jeff Ooi
2'26.43 - Wong Kei Ming, Pm55
2'30.31 - Teoh Chun Ming, Pm17
3'40.13 - Omar Khaliff
0'00.00 - Lim Pueh Tian, Pm1a
Men Jr Veteran 25.0km :
2'07.32 - Alam Shah
2'39.28 - Kevin Ng
2'40.52 - Loke Shu Sun
Women Open 25.0km :
2'01.00 - Michele Tan Bee Kiang (4th)
2'20.36 - Lynn Guan Yoke Ling (14th)
2'23.23 - Ameba Chan Chui Miew (15th)
2'26.00 - Tan Chin Chin
3'47.51 - Julie Wong
Anyone else?
Kindly update ur result to Wong Kei Ming @ 016-2166277 after end of ur race, thanks!
updated 17.11.08 by PM55...
i got my 1st hard earn 25km medal, cinya happy! i was flying around when i had juz finished der difficult race although it wasn't satisfied me with achieving over 2 hours 25 minutes, i would never know what would happen in all races bcoz sometimes der conditions or injuries might be der factors that affect me. taking photos with der gang, finding drinks & foods but there was no food! never mind lar later eat asam laksa and char kuey teow, hehehe... meanwhile i met chieh my school mate there taking photos around, cinya happy to meet him there!
going back to sham's van changing my cloths, busy with noting down der results for posting, really like becoming director liao, keke.. by der way i met a lot of new frenz there (Jeff Ooi, Mr Loke Shu Sun, Thurai, etc...) & old frenz (ameba, saiful, Tan Shih Ming etc). sitting down, talking kok with Kevin Ng, Choi, Frank.. actually we were thinking of waiting for lucky draw but they said that would be very late so didn't want to waste time we juz went back to hotel to take bath and eat at der cafe there.
we left der hotel by 12.15pm after checked out, went to somewhere for lunch, actually i was hunder for asam laksa, since everybody agree to have nasi kandar so no choice liao. i had been to everywhere to get some fridge magnet for pm1 but there was no place where could get magnet, so disappointed! after lunch then *poooooof*
byebye penang!
pictures are coming soon...
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