Another night but strange night..

At times, when you are running alone at night, you just wished that you are running with someone.. I had that thought tonight when I was running alone passed midnight, not because it's midnight, but because of something funny happened with my heart. Scared the hell out of me.

This is the most unusual run ever. At first it went all smooth. Planning to run for 10km only. I don't want to push myself tonight, running at slower speed than last night. Went to usual route but seems that there's a plenty of this retarded motorcyclist that racing on the street illegally. I have to pay special attention not to be at a wrong place at the wrong time. But I feel good and decided to go for 15km again.

I'm wearing my Fastwitch 4 since I have not use it almost a month and I felt that the shoes shrunk slightly. I'm not sure if my feet getting wider or maybe because it's late at night whereby it's normal that the feet get larger at the end of the day. Anyway, I had to stop couple of time to re-adjust my shoe to get better fit. Only after 35 minutes of running, I checked on my micoach for the stats, when I heard the my HR is around 196 bpm, I was slightly shocked, because my HR never been so high with slow pace, but I keep on going with slower pace, recheck my stats, now even higher, it's way 200+bpm, and my pace is already around 5.30min/km. I slowed down then stopped totally, do some stretching and readjust my shoes for 5 minutes and continue to run. Well, now it seems to be ok. Slightly higher around 175+bpm and it's a bit irregular rates. Maybe I need to head back to home now. I don't want to have a heart attack in the middle of the night on the street alone. Planning for detour for McDonald's but had to cancel it. The strange thing is I don't feel dizzy or any uncomfortable pain on my chest or left hand or headache.

micoach : How bizzare my hear rate was...

I'm still watching my HR using my father's blood pressure monitor to see any changes. By the way, 3 years ago, I was admitted to ICU for suspected Bradycardia but it was a missed diagnose because my resting heart rate was around 35-40 bpm. So I have the right to be extra careful.

Unexpected run..

Usually, I seldom blogging about my run, well, hardly. But tonight I was quite happy since this is my first time running at night here in Batu Pahat (my hometown) after being actively run since early this year. It was a good run but it was a wet one too. I did 2 runs both around 7km with 4.46min/km and 4.33min/km pace. This is my second run during Ramadan. Last year, I almost ran everynight but not this year. Last year I ran on treadmill at the place where I worked in Japan. It was easy to run on treadmill. But it doesn't give the real satisfaction like running on the road.

Anyway, I think I can deal running at night now here in my hometown just need to remember to bring my head light next time.

My Dailymile post will be here.

My first Half Marathon - Standard Chartered Kuala Lumpur Marathon 2010

Early morning shot.

This entry is a copy and paste from my Dailymile page. A small entry for one of the best moment in my life.

Honestly, this run was a very special to me. Back in 4 years ago, I was overweight with my BMI was around 40.. I was obese. I couldn't run not even climbing a long high stair case without breathing heavily. I had asthma attacks almost every week. I couldn't do anything that most of my age group can do. I was in my mid 20's and my life is just plain boring. Until it reached on the day where I have this somehow depressing time in my life. Something personal that makes me want to change what I want be look at in 4-5 years time. Long story shorts, today I never thought of even run this far.. When I thought of running for 5km, that somehow was very good for me, but for 21km well, seems impossible. I was just started running for longer distance in just less than 3 months right after my first 10km race. So now, I guess the thought my capabilities changes completely.

The medal

The morning starts very early.. very early actually. I managed to sleep for I think less than 30 minutes around 8pm to 8:30pm then suddenly my roomate called me asking where I am. Me and him staying in this hotel nearby the starting point of the marathon. He ran full, I ran half. Well, after waited for half an hour, he arrived and he asked me if I wanted to join him and another friend from Singapore for a drink. So I said yes. But what made it worse, I ordered teh tarik (black tea with milk). That was a mistake. I forgot that if I drank tea at night, I won't be easy to sleep afterwards. So it's true.. plus the anticipation of my first half, I stayed all night trying to sleep. At 1 am, I started to preparing all the gears that I intended to bring/use. Lay the socks, pin up the bib, lay down the singlet and shorts, calves compression, water bottles, gels (which i never get the chance of using it) and so fourth. Just to make sure, if I managed to sleep and woke up a bit late, I already prepared the things that I wanted to bring/use. At 3am, I started to hear the noise from outside when others trying to get ready for the marathon. So I decided to join them. Went for shower and all and ready to the starting point at 4 am with my roomate and his friend.

Rained, I think plays the biggest part of my timing, as it was cooler than normal but it was also wet. The traction on my Saucony seems to be very good on the wet surface which I am really happy about it. But when there was the head wind, my gosh my fingers were almost numb because of it was too cold for me.

Almost at the end

I must say, this time I when I was running, I was happy all the way. I almost becoming a cam-whore.. Running and trying to destract those camera men/women along the side with the peace sign and big smile. I even gave a hi five to all the cheerleaders along the way. I was just trying to enjoy my run without thinking about the distance. At the starting point when I knew that I didn't have enough sleep, I couldn't care less about my timing which I had set way back for half marathon at 1:45. I was telling to my roomate that if I could finish by 2hrs I would be happy. But when the run starts, I thought they would put km marker for every 1km, but I didn't see any only at 4km. Then afterwards there wasn't many markers. So I was just couldn't careless about my timing and keep on running. Hardly watching my watch also helps. But when I reached at km 16 where things starts to get very funny. I had the urge of going for toilet. Oh no! That's what I thought. I was seriously wanted to stop but then I remembered when I was climbing the Mount Kinabalu, for those who stop for a long break, you will get a bad cramp. So I didn't. I keep on running with one determination now. Get this done and relieve myself as soon as possible. So that what I did and it was one of the reason for my timing.

Running with crowd also pushed me a lot. When I'm doing the training, I am running alone at all time. But when I'm running with the crowd especially, with the speedy crowd, I tend to run with their pace. I'm not sure why I wanted to run with the speedy pacer but so just happened I was at the wrong place. :)

At the last 2 km, one thought that makes me feel overwhelming when I just noticed on my watch that I am way below my targeted time, it was the thought of what if I was still over weight, I would never enjoy running, I would never enjoy challenging myself, I would never enjoy to give high-five to the bunch of cheerleader and most definitely I would never enjoy cam-whoring to all the cameramen/women just now. When I reached at the finishing line with the big clock showing 1:39:XX:XX, I gave out all the energy left behind sprinting with a wide big smile from ear to ear and practically shouting and jump at the finishing line (I'm hoping that there will be a photo, a friend of mine saw me at the finishing line and she was saying that I looked so happy, which I am). So this will be one of the high point as my runner's life. I never wanted to run to win, but I always wanted to finish till the end.

The result!

Thanks to all my DM friends here for all the comments, motivation, advices and supports. Cheers and keep on running!! My journey is not done yet.. I have another half marathon in Singapore Penang (will try to get below 1:30 1:35) and I will start running for full starting next year with one target, to finish below 3:30 3:40.

Yes, I am coincidental runner..

Running is getting a lot of attention these few years here in Malaysia with the popularity gaining a lot of attentions from a housewives to white collar professional. But when asked why they start running, I bet the main answer would be just to keep active, trying to loose weight and some self achievement.

I start running because I wanted to maintain my weight. I want to be always active. But to join the running community whereby those that joined numerous numbers of races and events are not in my mind. So far I did 3 races. 10k, 21k (Half Marathon) and 12k. So to call myself an active runner, maybe not, but I think I'm a coincidental runner.

Me and Han Sia at Men's Run 2010

This came about when I met a newly met friend of a friend from my last race event Men's Health / Shape Magazine Run who are actually my eldest brother's ex-school mate. This friend of a friend just started running and they were messaging inside Facebook and my brother was saying that his friend just started running just like me who become a coincidental runner. Well, I think he's right. But I think that most of the runners out there also at first was coincidental runner too.

I'm taking a few weeks break or maybe days from this month of Ramadan. Not because I'm too tried for a run, but I can't find a good time to run. Later around 4pm till iftar, I have to get ready for the meal. Later on, going to Mosque for the solat and then prolly sleep after. Woke up at 4am to get ready for the meal in the morning. So.. it's quite impossible to squeeze the time, I do miss running terribly.

This is just a short entry.. going back to my Beijing story next update.

I *heart* CAFFEINE

So it's confirmed that CAFFEINE helps endurance for runners!

Last few weeks, I did post some notes in my Dailymile page regarding the caffeine intake before the run to assist on the endurance during running. Well, I did read somewhere before about some research has been done previously but it wasn't in Malaysian climate. But I just found out about this article regarding the same subject but it was done in Malaysian climate. 

Go Homer Go!

Quote from the article "Our study showed that ingestion of 5 mg of caffeine per kg of body weight improved the endurance running performance but did not impose any significant effect on other individual cardiorespiratory parameters of heat-acclimated recreational runners in hot and humid conditions.".


For full article heads to http://bit.ly/9KRSho

Beijing..

After the 13 hours train ride, I'm just so relieve that I safely arrived in Beijing in on piece minus my butt that hurts so bad. After get out from the train, I just followed the crowd to the exit with my big heavy backpack.

By the way, just need to mention, I love this backpack not because it's easy to carry but it's the longest time that I even own a bag that lasted for years. This backpack has been through a lot. From the hurricane evacuee of New Orleans, crazy city of glamour in LA, sandstorm in Canyon, the everlasting heat in Arizona dessert (this is the most intense heat I ever get thru with), rough terrain in Yosemite, big hectic crowded city of NYC, casino life in Macao, salty ocean of Maldives, the elephant ride in Cambodia, tuk tuk in Bangkok, being a fashionista in Harajuku, memories of Geisha in Kyoto and now the 13 hours ride of China and it still in one piece that's only few to be named. Amazing!

Ok.. so the walk wasn't that short.. it was a long walk from the track to the exit. And once I'm out from the exit, I've been welcomed by thousand of yelling people of Beijing, it's just so typical in China, the louder you are the more attention you get even when you are not looking for one. Haha. The train station is conveniently located next to Marriott Hotel but I'm not staying there. I had made an emergency booking at some hostel somewhere out there. So I was wondering around to look for a taxi because I don't want to be bother carrying this big backpacks with me, did I mention that I have two of them. Alright, onced I saw the line I was called by this old mid 40's years old man. He was asking me where I'm heading to, at first I just kept quite I don't want to be bothered. He was speaking in mandarin to me. It's typical for the local to speak in mandarin even if you have the bluest eyes and the fairest skin. They didn't care about how foreign you look, as long as you are in China, you need to speak mandarin. Well, I know some mandarin, a little actually. This is where I get conned. Shit! But at least I don't have to wait for hours to get the cab coz he actually made me jump over the barricade then took my heavy luggage, of course not my valuable stuffs luggage and just went to this taxi. He asked for RMB 50 but I bargained, ended paid him RMB 20. I thought that was the taxi fares but it's not. I had to pay the taxi fare again after I arrived for less than RMB 20! Shit!

Arrived at the hutong (small alley where they said it's historical, nothing is historic at this hutong beside the aged looking public toilet!) to the hostel where I'm staying. But the taxi refused to get into the hutong since there was a construction going on. So I had to walk. Af first I refused, but then I just had to. I didn't realized that the hostel is located in the hutong, and I don't want to walk into the hutong since I feels it wasn't safe. So I just walked. By looking at my map, which I downloaded from Google but ended walking for almost 2 hours looking for this hostel. During the searched, I asked like 3 persons for the direction and only one that gave the right direction the other 2 well, got me into some where that I wasn't looking for also involved with some very dirty experience which I'm not going to share here only for me to know. Haha.

Ok, got to the Hostel, drenched in sweat. I'm sweaty and dirty from the walking and from the 13 hours train ride. Went to the checkin counter and the receptionist is a female receptionist whom I think that she's slightly deft. Coz she keep on yelling with high pitch voice. Trying to make conversation to me, but I'm not interested. Sorry, I'm just tired. But I still did talk when she asked me where I'm from and so on. Got my room card and bumped into this lady that just had a facelift also staying in the same hostel. By the way, do you know that in China, it's a trend to get a plastic surgery.. and it's cheeper than in other part of the world. If you plan to visit China, why don't you get something done here and there.. hehe.. Seems that Chinese now has become self absorb with their look. They are trying to get the sharp western features. So sad.. How I know this.. coz a day before I saw a documentary about this in the CCTV News..

Well, the room is not as clean as what I imagined. I staying at one person room with attached toilet. The toilet floor is clean but wet.. I guess they just had it cleaned and there's few strands of hair here and there. I just had to wear my flip flops.. just want to be sure. The room floor is sticky, since I'm always a prepared traveller (I am a very prepared traveller excepts on things like battery chargers and camera cables haha always missed them), took out my disposable towels with disinfectant spray and mop the whole floor using hehehe the hostel towels.. haha I'm not gonna use their towel on my body.. no way! You don't know how clean it wouldn't be. Bed sheets looks ok, but it would be outrages for me to bring on my own bed sheet, so I just didn't bother to change it. I know I'm not that crazy. But I did brought my own when I was backpacking in Cambodia and Thailand.

Crouching Panda..

SO I took a shower and prepared my itinerary for my day one tour. First thing first would be Zoo! I want to see Panda. haha. So went to the receptionist asking for the train station and heading out. The closing time for the zoo is at 5pm so I have less than 3 hours to get there, which I think is sufficient. Got to the subway station, also need to mention that, all the subway stations in Beijing and Shanghai it is compulsory for you to x-ray your bags before you get in side the platform. It's a hassle but it's a safety precaution. The subway fee is a flat rate, only RMB 2 to go anywhere unless you get out from the station and it's well connected. Very convenient not like in Kuala Lumpur. I felt like I was in Tokyo except that in Tokyo, you would see a lot of people holding/typing/playing their OWN handphone, ipod/iphone or any electronic gadgets but in Beijing or Shanghai, yes there's a few, but some are looking over your shoulder if you had happened to be playing/typing/holding with your phone. There's no personal space here in China. Even when you are reading books, they will try to peek on what are you reading. Oh don't tell me about when they talk.. it's loud. And they are allowed to eat and drink inside the train. Thank God they banned the spitting! Pushing and cutting your line is a survival skills in China. Don't worry, if you think that you won't do it, by at the end of the day one, you'll become one of them. Trust me. You need to!

Birds at the man-made pond

Owl in the glass cage

Got to the Zoo, paid my entrance and went inside. The entrance fee is for all the area except the Panda. So if you wanted and dying to see the Pandas, you need to pay another entrance fee again. I can't remember exactly how much I paid, but both cost me not more than RMB 50. Seems that the Zoo is only so-so. It's not well kept but they are doing some upgrading work. So most of the animals are kept somewhere else. I spend few hours in the Zoo, taking few snapshots there and head out. Well, it was already 5-ish and since I have no other plans beside Zoo, tried to walk around the Beijing city scape.

New CCTV Building

Beijing city is huge and spread out. Not like Shanghai whereby mostly concentrated in Pudong and Hunagpu but Beijing it's everywhere. So really need to plan out well to travel around. Since I'm an independent traveller and always will be, I just go where ever I wanted to go. But with some proper plan. So I spend the rest of the day walking aroung in the city and on and off with the subway. Subway lines save me a lot of time. Oh by the way, walking around in Shanghai and Beijing helps my half marathon training very well. I walked almost 16 hours a day and one time in Shanghai I walked almost half of the city from Hunagpu area, took a ferry cross the river than walk again in Pudong and then back. I think I did walk like more than 50km a day. I did brought me my trainers but couldn't be bother to run, the air is not clean, worse was in Beijing. On good day, you can see up to 500m away, worse day, not even half of that!

The National Theater near the Tiananmen Square.

Alright I think that's about enough for my day one.. Will try to continue soon.

Shanghai and Beijing trip.. This is long overdue post as of all my posts.

I WILL RE WRITE THIS POST LATER FOR MORE DETAILS AND SOME PHOTOS. THANKS!

Here's my journey so far after the last post.
My trip to Shanghai and Beijing went well. Except at the part of the train ride from Shanghai to Beijing, it took me like 13 hours with the most uncomfortable seat ever, even by far Malaysia train is far better than that. I could had just bought a nicer sleeper seat but I didn't ask the translator to do it. My fault.

Shanghai was great. Met with my great friend Jerry. Missed talking some nonsense with him. Managed to spend good times with him, since he was busy with work due to few new restaurants were opening in that month from the World Expo in Shanghai. I spend few good times with Sunny and Moment too. Had few dinners with them and Moment's mom. She said that I get darker comparing with me when we met in Maldives about a year ago. We couldn't understand each other but we still managed to understand with the help of Moment of course. Of course I get darker nowadays, thanks to my running activities. But she said I lost a lot of weight too.. which has the same reason as I get darker.

I was supposed to stay in hotel when in Shanghai but 2 days before my departure, the time sharing people just told me that they had to cancel my booking because of the peak season due to the World Expo. But thank God that Jerry's apartment is available. So I crashed at his place for the whole time when I was in Shanghai. I missed a night where I supposed to go to Beijing, the train tickets were sold-out, extending my night in Shanghai.

World Expo in Shanghai is freaking huge. It's amazing! But if you planned to pay a quick visit 3 days wouldn't be enough. I spend full 3 days but only managed to get to 14 pavilions, which only 5 were consider the best pavilions the rest is just like something to do when you are not doing anything. Most of the best pavilions, you need to get the special pass which is very hard to get. There's no special treatment to foreigners unless you are a top official workers or agents or a diplomat. I couldn't able to get a pass for China Pavilion which is consider the best pavilion but I did managed to get to Taiwan Pavilion. Which is  a worth to visit. Thanks to Jerry for his special connection with the official Taiwan Pavilion staffs.

Malaysian Pavilion is just too sad to describe, so I am not going to.

Overall, I love Shanghai.. I spend few days walking around in this metropolitan but very congested with people. It get so crowded that it scared you. Not because there's a lot of people but I must say that Chinese people are not as gentle as many others people. I've been to the most top cities in the world, NYC, LA, Chicago, Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, HK, Singapore, Bangkok and Atlanta to name a few, but my experience in Shanghai is far different, in terms of the friendliness of the citizens comparing with the others.

I shall update with some photos and will start talking about my journey to Beijing with the 13 hours journey in the train. Whenever I think about it, makes my butt hurts.

I'm gonna skipped for what happened before..

I decided to skip for all the things (good or bad) that happened and not to blog about it. I'm gonna start writing things that happend today.

Well, maybe I keep few things to mention here. Kinabalu trip was fun! Managed to climb the mountain from Timpohon to Laban Rata for 3 hours and then Timpohon to Peak in 1:40. I think that was fast!

Came back from Kinabalu, didn't do anything much except doing some daily run. Basically, life is to bored these days.. putain!!

Last week, just signed up for SC Marathon Singapore 2010 for another Half Marathon. Next week, will be going to Shanghai for World Expo and visiting some friends (esp my buddy in Kani, Jerry that has been working there since last year. He's from Taiwan, but he's my good friend in Kani) and Moment and Sunny also. Both girls are Shanghainese. Can't wait, this could be fun. I will keep on with my training for the SCKLM. Then after few days in Shanghai will be off to Beijing for few more days. Coincidently, I will meet my mom and aunty there. I booked the ticket separately long time ago.. and they decided to go, but I didn't know that we are going to be in Beijing at the same time. I'm traveling alone, while they booked with group.

Hmm what else.. oh yeah.. I did LSD (long slow distance) run this morning. Went to several palaces that I never thought that I could run there. Pretty good route. Of course I am running alone. Pretty sad but happy, as I don't have to wait or paced with someone else. I did 21.92km in 2:03'52". Lately, I'm not sure if I could get my targeted time for SCKLM 1:45 that I set myself.. after being sick with fever, cold and cough that brought me not able to run for almost 2 weeks, I couldn't keep up with my pace anymore. Before I could run 21.72km in just 1:52' and this morning with the pace, I feel slightly tired and keep on slowing down and it shown with the time there. Even I wasn't thinking of running with the race pace but still with the fatigue feeling I'm not sure on the race day would be. 24 days to go!!

Right now, I am only running with one pair of shoes since my Lunarglide which I bought in Tokyo (special edition Tokyo only version) the out sole is just flat now.. totally cannot be use for running. I had use it for 4 months with a millages of 687km! Thank God that I keep a track on every shoes that I have. So next week, I will get a new pair and this one I will use it for my training in Shanghai and Beijing. I decided to get Saucony Fastwitch 4. I'll be using this for my race in SCKLM.

About SCKLM, I met a guy from Singapore through Facebook that we going to share a room night before, around Dataran Merdeka. Seems that he's good guy.. so no worries. We've been contacting a lot since we decided to share the room. I'm ok sharing or meeting with someone over the Internet. That's what a backpacker always does. When I was traveling in Boston, I stay in this single guy house for 5 days for free plus meals. Met him over the internet, during that time there wasn't surfing couch program, i meet him through Craiglist haha.. it's dangerous but I'm still here.. Anyway, I'm comfortable to do that, I traveled all over place just meeting up people from internet.

Oh by the way, I just realised that I never actually finish my experience over the Hurricane Katrina from previous blog.. poop! I need to think what had happened during those difficult days.. I still have the Task Force T-Shirts that I worn during the humanitarian work when I came back to the city after katrina.. Gosh it's been almost 5 years.. and I still have the vivid memories about it! Miss NOLA!

And last night, I decide that, if I didn't get a job oversea again, I'm going to trade off my chef career to help out my father business and soon take over his place in 2011. And 2011 will be my year of running full marathon, that would be Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon in February 2011.

That's all for today.. and see if I will post new entries tomorrow.. hope so....

OOOOKK! I'm sucks at blogging these days. I keep on saying that I should keep on blogging but no.. I'm not sure what should I write about. But these days, few things that always been in my head. First, my job situation (which I'm not really want to write about, basically, I don't need to think too much about it which I should but I'm not.. well, that's it..) and my running. So I guess for sure I will write about my training and stuffs for my first upcoming Half Marathon this coming June 27, 2010 for Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2010 and beside that, I'm traveling to Shanghai and Beijing next week. I guess that's so.

So here it is.. Training for my running seems to be fair, for those that just bump into my blog and haven't catching up my previous entries which was back years ago.. I was an quite obese but decided to start getting active again since 2005 before and now recently when I just came back from Japan, I decided to run again, really run. Since there's nothing good that I can do here. Living in Batu Pahat, there's no good gym to do weight training, so I decided to go for run since I've been running for a good on and off about 2 years, I think. Last time that I could remember running on the road when I was working in Macao back in 2008. Then, in Maldives, I just running on treadmill for whole time. But I did run few times on the road again in Okinawa, Japan. But not too often because I'm worried about getting back my injury on my right knee.

So when I came back to Malaysia, I decided to give a go for a run on the road. I haven't run for about 3 months since, so when first I started it was horrible run. To be honest, it was so bad with my stamina and stride. I did feel some uncomfortable feeling on my right knee again.. I decided to quit, again! Sheesh! Then I start reading a lot about running and returning to my old book which I bought when I was still working in US, Chi Running. Studying it for about a month. I skipped the boring parts and all.. haha.. express reading. Getting to know about the posture, stride and all. I start running again. This time with the knowledge that I got from the book. Well, it does improve my run. It took me awhile to do actually feel use to the technique. I build my stamina and distance over time. 5K is normal before on treadmill. 10k is not very often. 15k is impossible to me at all during the treadmill time.

I build my pace and distance gradually, took me over 3 months just to get accustomed with the technique, pace and distance. My strides are shorter compare with other runners that regularly runs at Tasik Y, Batu Pahat. So 3 months passed, I managed to build my running pace, stride and stamina to run 15km without stopping. But I don't know maybe Batu Pahat air is polluted, that I had few asthma attacked at least few times in a month. It didn't stop me to run. I had to run sometimes with the ventilator in my pocket. When I was living oversea, maybe only had few times in a year.. not in a month here in Malaysia. So I've been careful with the run every now and then, I only run when I feel that I won't get asthma or taking the ventoline tabs that morning, just to make sure I won't get later at afternoon.

My progress has brought me a new self confident about my running. After the 10k Energizer Night Race, I decided that I think I could do half marathon. So when Standard Chartered KL Marathon is announced, without hesitation, I signed on for my first Half Marathon.

So far, the training has been great! I think I am ready for the run.. but still I am still doing what is the best for me to reach my target for this run, 1:45!

It's been another long absent from my last post. For the last few years, when I started blogging, I still couldn't figure out about what I should be writing about. As far as I concerned, I just start writing about things that happened to me on daily basis.. but now things are change.. I decided to write about my running.

I've been running since about 4 years ago, but never really pickup on competition or any activity that involve a group of people sweating, heavy breathing and running for one motivation, just to cross the finish line. I did the Energizer Night Run 2010 with one of my ex-schoolmate, Han Sia which I've been in touch whenever I go.

Honestly, that run was superb. I did my best PR for 10km of 44' 31". Never thought that I could run that fast even some says that it's not really 10KM but who cares. The best part is, I ran with a cold and fever. I caught those illness a day before the run. Wanted to cancel the run but I am very determine to get over it and just run.

Then the next day after, well, I really got sick and I have to travel back to Johor, packing some stuffs coz I'm heading to Kuching and Kota Kinabalu for climbing the Mount Kinabalu. That will be later!