wongkeiming.blogspot.com: KL Tower International Forest Towerthon Challenge

What : KL Tower International Forest Towerthon Challenge
When : 1st March 2009
Where : KL Tower
Time : 8.00am / 8.15am / 8.30am / etc...
Distance : 1km Run / 2058 Steps

Men Open :
16.24 - Murali Nathan (19th)
16.27 - Jayakumar (20th)
16.36 - Jasni Khairil (24th)
17'17 - Ronnie See, Pm1 (31st)
17'30 - Khoo Yit Kiat, Pm28 (36th)
18'27 - Chin Teck Sin
18'42 - Stanley Cheong, Pm53
19.14 - Omar
19.36 - Zulazlan, Pm43
19.44 - Nazib Ngainin, Pm14
20.17 - Frank Chong, Sub Pm6
20.21 - Lionel Lee
20.26 - Naresh Kumar, Pm37
20.30 - Chen Keat Hoong, Pm8
20.47 - Hasrul Sham, Pm34
21.20 - Meyyappa Manickam, Pm58
21.25 - Kenny Tan, Pm27
21.31 - Suresh, Pm47
21.36 - Lee Weng Kong, Pm35
21.42 - Andrew Chan
21.52 - Gunaselan Rajagopal, Pm39
23.13 - Wong Kei Ming, Pm55
24.06 - Victor Loh
25'34 - Ghejanthran
28.15 - Lai Fong Sang, Pm38
29.02 - Kevin Chow, Pm32
31'35 - Gaby Chau
35.17 - Khairul
00.00 - Teoh Chun Ming, Pm17
00'00 - Prabu Jeyaseelan, Pm54
00'00 - Lim Pueh Tian, Pm1a

Men Jr. Veteran :
18'27 - Vincent Wong, Pm10 (13th)
19'06 - Tay Poh Chye (17th)
20'31 - Daniel Tan (25th)
22'08 - Lee Yee Sum (42nd)
26'32 - Choi Chik Choi, Pm42
28'30 - Cheang Meng Wai, Pm6
00'00 - Kelvin Ng, Pm2

i arrived kl tower by 6.25am and started to distribute all der t-shirts, bibs and chips, luckily today nobody FFK me. i am sad to see prabu had an accident yesterday while he was driving motor taking his friend from bus station, unfortunately he was knocked by a bastard driver, after knocked him down and der driver ran away, he tried to catch der plate number of der car but he really couldn't see. i saw prabu injured quite badly in his face and arms, hope he can recover fast and back in shape. DRIVER, please drive carefully!

now, it is time for der organiser to flag off der runners from 1st batch! after they were flag off, we were der group (me, lionel, victor, kevin chow etc..) who lined up at der most front. however der staff incharge there really made us mad of him, made us so confuse, we were going in and place ourselves in der front pack, he asked us to go behind, however other runners from behind were going to stand at der front means 'cut queue' lor! some of der runners (not me!) argued with him that we should actually stand at der front, but der staff raised his tempered desperately, and he claimed that he didn't angry or anything juz that we need to follow instruction. in fact we followed der instruction and hope to stand in front so that we could build gap when going up hills. in fact it was not runners fault, they should have made only one entrance to der starting point so ppl won't get confuse. haiz... made us very 'tulan'! blar blar blar lar... don't know what to say............

3, 2, 1, bang! everybody was running like rocket! while i was pushed around by runners almost fall down. going up hills really not easy, tiring and suffering even though i had training staircase b4 der race, something which i m not use to it. my pace was slowing down bcoz i felt that my thigh lack of strength and i couldn't push any further even i forced myself to run faster juz to pace with lionel.

going to start der staircase journey, i felt i was almost out of energy already, but still had to carry on, i saw victor was behind me, i thought he was going to overtake me however he was more tired that me though, in der middle, i was frustrated bcoz der runners didn't tolerate at all, they didn't want to give way to me when i went faster. so no choice, they made me so tired followed their 'bontut'! in T17, andrew gave me inspiration, however i was energyless that time, he overtook me in der end. at this time, der journey was going to be tough, all about mental strength! fight fight fight! i must complete it! finally i did it and very happy to create new PB for myself! much improved compared to last year 28 minutes.

after der race, needed fresh air desperately! walked a round with them at der top, enjoyed der view of der tower, chit chating everywhere. overall i enjoyed this race very much! i should have taken part in team event for school, UTAR suck lar! made me mad lar.. anyway, i will recruit runners from my school on my own! UTAR cannot be trusted lar! congratulation to my friends who did very well today! very happy to meet u guys today at kl tower especially my taekwondo teacher.