i woke up as early as 3.45am today since i really could not sleep well, was rolling around and i needed to fall asleep desperately but i could not. prepared all der stuff after woke up for der run and waited stanley to pick me up by 4.30am, thanks for der ride!
i heard that today's menu was going be to very very tough, tougher than i had ever expected, they said that after der 1st hill, we could see der entire route CLEARLY! wave by wave! ups & downs! 10 to 14 hills in total! but fantastic scenery! 'is it?', i asked. i did not care much bcoz i have been practised so well recently and i was confident to tackle der hills. if this is true then i should reset my target time to 1'25.00 now! (previous target 1'20.00).
after reaching der place, der time shows 5.30am, managed to get a good parking spot luckily juz outside der school bcoz not many ppl arrived yet. we had to walk from der school all der ways to der starting point, it took me 5 minutes to reach there, this made me recall one of der great experience during der camp i went for in 2005, really nice experience.
der race started with E & F categories followed by C & D, A & B started last, at that
time my watch showed 6.50am. delayed 20 minutes, by right they should have flag off
runners follow order of all categories so that der slower ones would not block der
faster ones.
as usual, i started it well, with steady pace, pacing with meyya, since he had not been training for some time, i estimated i could at least follow him half of der race. in almost 2km mark after der corner, i was surprised that there was a very steep hill ahead. wow!!! it really made me so scared! it was okay, i still climbed it. meyya slowed down in der hill, and then catch me back in der flat road. on top of der 1st hill, i could see der entire route like waves, ups & down! i thought everybody was going to be suffer & frustrated.
der 1st water station located 4km mark, my watch showed me 19'02.25 which was a good pacing all der killing hills. i lost meyya as my pacer after der 3rd hill, he was left behind and i believed he would catch me back later. i continued with my current pacing. somehow i felt my feet no longer able to take der tiredness in further mileages. not so long, meyya overtook me back juz before der only u-turn at 7.5km (40'22.05).
yes, there was another water station juz after der u-turn, i stopped for 10 seconds for refreshment. AGAIN!!! i was so much frustration on der hills. i was tired, i did not have energy anymore, my mind told me i could not stopped no matter how, i still carried on. at der 10 to 11km mark, there was der longest uphill of der race, my mind almost shut down already, 400m... 300m... 200m... 100m, der uphill finally over, 'is it?', no! not over yet! yet again! another one and another one. at 12km mark, my watch showed 57'31.98, i realised that der distance markers were not right, so i had to reset my mind.
going to finish! take der pain!after der corner back, it was now all flat course, no worries, but i had used up almost 90% of my energy. my pace became very slow now. 3 runners overtook me including kamarul and asmadi in der last 1km, suffer now, i wanted to overtake them back but my body had no more power. finished der race in faster pace in der remaining 400m to go! i got my position of 41st with 1 hour 23 minutes 23.30 seconds which is a PB for me in 15km today.
i was happy and satisfied with my result bcoz i had achieve my target set earlier on. with all der suffering hills accompanied me, haha... i can say actually double hill in KL actually is nothing compare to this one, whoever has not tried this do go and experience once for training or racing purposes.
My result (41st - 1 hour 23 minutes 23.30 seconds) :
19'02.25 > 19'02.25 - 4km
21'19.80 > 40'22.05 - 8km (estimated 7.5km)
17'09.93 > 57'31.98 - 12km (estimated 10.5km)
25'51.32 > 83'23.30 - 15km
note that this distance markers are estimation only!
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