Yes, it was a maddening run. For the life of me, this is my first run of 22km. Well, I have been running 10km runs and getting a time of 1 hour or less. Now trying to gear up for the Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2009, I decided to test my mettle in this Circuit Run 3 which is about 22km held at Bukit Jalil Park and the running event starting at 9pm. Also bought my new shoes and also the vest that I found was collecting dust in my cupboard is finally put to good use.

Little did I know, many things await me. The tiredness and of course for not exercising or training for 1 whole month, I must be crazy to even participate in this. But always the never say cannot finish and cannot fail that type, I decided to just go with the flow. I ran non-stop during the first loop and it was fun, I guessed. Though, once I reached the water station, I think I made a mistake by stopping too long. I felt tiredness taken over me and in the 2nd loop I was like someone who has lost all his energy. Though my legs can carry on, I felt I don’t have the power to push myself.

That’s when many people would see me walking instead of jogging and I must say, I am like a disgrace. Darn… well, who ask me to put up to such event without training. When I saw Ronnie passed by me completing one loop, I was like… “If only I could keep my pace with him”. Well, no matter, I actually wanted to stop running after the 2nd loop. Well, one loop is about 3++km.

Some truth though, everytime I see a camera in the distance, I would pick up speed and jog like I don’t feel pain. Maybe that’s my motivation for this run. LOL, I wouldn’t want to be seen as someone who is walking. Shhhh.. don’t tell anyone.

Now thanks to the photographers around, I got one shot here showing me running. Oh yeah, a near freak accident happened while I ran the first loop. Right after 10 seconds ahead of a few runners, I heard a cracking sound above me, after 5 seconds I heard a loud crack and a loud thump and found out that a tree trunk has fallen onto the track. Luckily no one was hurt. Crazy~~~ If I was a bit slower, that could have been me.

Pictures courtesy of runwitme.blogspot.com

After the whole run, I then felt that running not only gives you the passion to exercise, it also helps you to get to know new faces and meet new people. Yes, on that day I met up with 5 to 6 random people and it was a good experience to mingle around. Now the results, what did I get?

Here’s the result courtesy from Ronnie’s blog.

Men Open 22.4km :
01) 1’35’08 – Jasni Khairil
02) 1’36’11 – Rozmi bin Yunus
03) 1’42’03 – Zamanhuri bin Otin
04) 1’43’00 – Alam Shah
05) 1’43’37 – Daniel Tan
06) 1’44’02 – Ronnie See, Pm1
07) 1’44’03 – Lee Kok Leong (Bryan)
08) 1’45’08 – Meyyappa Manickam, Pm58
09) 1’45’47 – Kenny Tan, Pm27
10) 1’45’45 – Lui Yuan Long

11) 1’48’20 – Vincent Wong, Pm10
12) 1’48’30 – Stanley Cheong, Pm53
13) 1’49’07 – Rizwan Sulaiman
14) 1’50’50 – Tang Wern Tien
15) 1’51’03 – Lee Weng Khong, Pm35
16) 1’53’28 – Azhar bin Johari
17) 1’55’38 – Suresh, Pm47
18) 1’57’47 – Tee Ee Kia
19) 1’58’00 – Yuan Khai Heng
20) 1’58’11 – Balan Acey

21) 1’59’17 – Chan Yew Wah
22) 2’01’33 – Azlan B. Norul Anhar
23) 2’02’27 – Tee Kuan Meng
24) 2’02’47 – Soo Yew Kuang
25) 2’03’18 – Lim Kian Huat
26) 2’03’19 – Lee Yee Sum
27) 2’03’20 – Chew Wee Shea
28) 2’03’35 – Cheang Choon Wah
29) 2’03’54 – Chanthiran Sivaperuman
30) 2’04’04 – Wong Soon Pin

31) 2’04’10 – Mohamad Saiful bin Razawan
32) 2’04’21 – Eddy Choo
33) 2’04’30 – Mohd Fadzli bin Mohd Yusoff
34) 2’04’20 – Ghejanthran
35) 2’05’15 – Mohd Zaini bin Mansor
36) 2’05’30 – Nurul Azmir Yeop Mat Nor
37) 2’06’11 – Shafarudin bin Awang Kasa
38) 2’07’20 – Suhaimi Ismail
39) 2’07’19 – Mak Chin Kow
40) 2’09’02 – Edmund Yeoh Tay Beng

41) 2’09’38 – Wong Kei Ming, Pm55
42) 2’11’15 – Chuah Seih Seng
43) 2’11’38 – Hoffen Teh Yih Ben
44) 2’14’52 – Tong Woon Sheng
45) 2’15’02 – Lim Kim Keong
46) 2’15’46 – Koo Wai Hoong
47) 2’16’43 – Chong Tuck Huei
48) 2’18’42 – Chu Wai Keong
49) 2’19’54 – Ng Heok Kheng
50) 2’19’32 – Chan Sai Chun

51) 2’19’35 – Goh Shu Wei
52) 2’21’00 – Khairul Amran bin Abd Aziz
53) 0’00’00 – Soo Sheau Luen
54) 2’21’59 – Loh Kian Kok
55) 2’21’59 – Law Lee Kuon (Lawrence)
56) 2’23’46 – Tan Boon Keat
57) 2’24’24 – Zabba bin Otin
58) 2’24’59 – Phooi Rong Vei
59) 2’25’22 – Chai Fook Khae
60) 2’25’26 – Yap Chee Kuang, Pm57

61) 2’26’01 – Yap Siak Koon
62) 2’26’03 – Mohd Hafiz bin Mohamad Nawi
63) 2’26’10 – Wan Hanafi bin Wan Khamaruddin
64) 2’26’38 – Leonard Tan Chyi An
65) 2’26’45 – Tan Wah Sing
66) 0’00’00 – Tan Khee Meng, Sub Pm2
67) 2’27’11 – Patmanathan a/l Vengu
68) 2’28’05 – Yap Chee Ching
69) 2’30’22 – Kang Hok Beng
70) 2’30’44 – Sharafi Abdullah Fauzi

71) 2’30’48 – Mohd Nazri Afandi
72) 2’32’43 – Wong Cheon Keong
73) 2’32’44 – Anuar Sanusi bin Ahmad
74) 2’33’11 – Wong Kian Heong
75) 2’35’01 – Hazman bin Hassan
76) 2’37’14 – Ian Yap Vern-Choong
77) 2’37’35 – Oh Choor Guan
78) 2’38’44 – Kunasegaran a/l Maniveloo
79) 2’40’52 – James Fong San Feng
80) 2’41’29 – Zulkifli Deraman

81) 2’42’04 – Mohd Rashidi Yusof
82) 2’43’04 – Lai Siew Kiw
83) 2’46’17 – Aplaidoo s/o Rama
84) 2’37’34 – Asmadi Abdullah
85) 2’48’14 – Mohammad Rohaimy Abdul Rahim
86) 2’49’52 – Fuzahir Nayan
87) 2’50’13 – Khoo Kong Wah
88) 2’52’26 – Toh Kok Lim
89) 2’56’00 – Daniel Chew Tze Wenn
90) 2’57’44 – Chew Kien Lee

91) 2’57’57 – Tan Choon Seang
92) 2’59’18 – Cheang Meng Wai, Pm6
93) 3’01’57 – Ahmad Yusran bin Khalid
94) 3’02’02 – Mohamed Jaafar bin Mohd Abd. Hamid
95) 0’00’00 – Mohd Khairul Anuar
96) 3’03’23 – Chong Tuck Kang
97) 3’04’20 – Gary Chin
98) 3’17’06 – Mohd Pauzi Husin
99) 3’27’09 – Michael Lim
100) 0’00’00 – Hamidon Mat Aris

101) 0’00’00 – Nazrul bin Mat Zizi
102) DNF – Kamaruzaman bin Shariman
103) DNF – Steven Khoo

Women Open 22.4km :
01) 1’43’47 – Michele Tan Bee Kiang
02) 2’20’35 – Than Wai Sum
03) 2’36’33 – Kong Yen Erl
04) 2’39’43 – Amelia Ang
05) 2’41’51 – Tan Puay Gaik
06) 2’54’14 – Wong Wai Yee
07) 3’05’45 – Nikki Chee Manye
08) 3’05’55 – Lee Siew Teng
09) 3’05’55 – Tan Yew Ting
10) 3’09’48 – Amridzah Amrahi
11) 3’54’57 – Yap Pay Sy
12) DNF – Veronica Schokman

My position is the one with Bold and Blue. Though I was practically aiming for a time below 3 hours and I guessed I made it for this time. Now to get it below 2 hours 45 minutes. Most of all, at least now I got something to show that I’ve ran the 22km course and got something to show.

So who’s going to join me in the next race?

For those who missed out the videos and want to experience what we’ve gone through, here are some videos for your viewing pleasure.

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