KL International Towerthon 2014

This is my first towerthon. It was never the same as running.

KL Towerthon 2014

2,058 steps to the top of the tower. Flagged off at 5am and the runners started by batches.

It was a 1+ km hill hike before we enter the tower and start climbing the stairs.

During the climb, there's air vent to provide the runners air flow and several water stations to help them along the way.

I did made a few stops along the climb and it was never easy for me. After 35 minutes, I reached TH03 which is the top and moved to the observation deck. It was a great view of KL indeed. 

Thirsty Runner 2014

My fourth run in 2014, 7km Thirsty Runner 2014.

This run organized by Water and Energy Consumer Association of Malaysia (WECAM) and held at Dataran Petaling Jaya. It was to "increase awareness and also to educate the general public to realize the importance of water sustainability".

The route planned in this event was nice mixture of hilly + flat route. Constantly maintaining my timing around 8:00/km pace. At the end of the run, managed to clocked 50 minutes.

Yet more work/training need to be done for me to achieve sub1 for 10km.

A bucket as medal

Me and Mary, barefoot runner

Brooks Half Marathon 2014

09/03/2014 marks my first Half Marathon after 2 years I started running.

This was also my most excruciating event; period. 

At the start of the run, I started slow at 9:05/km pace to preserve my energy for the hilly route. 

It was pretty straight forward route for the first half of the route but my stomach muscle cramped as usual in the first few KM. However, it does not stop me from continue and I picked up my pace to 8:30/km till 10th KM.

That's where the hilly route start and how I got my calves muscle cramped along with my knee pain.

At first, I thought the knee pain has been fully healed but I guess I'm wrong on this. 

As I proceed further, the calves doesn't do any good on my timing thus causes me to walk for the rest of the route.

The walking made me to be with the last pack of the runners.

When I reached the finishing line, my final timing is 3:32 hours and this is the time that I will beat in my next HM which is in PBIM 2014.

Me and my running partner, Andy. Without him, I could never finish the run.

The finishing medal for Brooks HM

Mid Valley City Charity Run 2014 (MVCCR2014)

Mid Valley City Charity Run or MVCCR is a charity run organized by Mid Valley and The Gardens to raise fund for St. John Ambulance.

As I mentioned before, my knee was stressed too much on previous event so I take this easy as my recovery run. Hey, it's a non-competitive run :)

As the race started, I kept my pace at a constant timing of 7:30/km and as soon as the road ahead getting lesser and lesser runners, I picked up my pace to 7:00/km. The knee was starting to feel very tight during the uphill and I started to worry that the injured is not fully recovered.

As I reaches the finishing point, my final timing is 30:15 minutes for 4.3km run with a pace of 6:55/km. Hopefully that I can maintain this timing in the next event which is my virgin Half Marathon.

MVCCR medal