BSN Putrajaya Night Race 2011 A+

BSN Putrajaya Night Raya organizer should held their head high as it is very well organised (as far as Tina and I am concerned anyway). Before I jumped ahead a brief details of my run are as follow:

Run Name : BSN Putrajaya Night Race

Date : 15th October 2011

Time : 8.40

Distance Ran : 10km

Running Buddy : Tina , although ZCAT was there did not manage to see him as this time around we went on separate cars

 
As earlier mention the race was organise smoothly , BSN as first time sponsor should be proud of themselves . They really make sure everything went well. Things the made the race an A+ in my book was:

Race Location & General Logistics
The race location was in Putrajaya, this is not the first race I joined that was held here but somehow the organizer took the extra effort to ensure everything is well coordinated. There was RELA assisting / directing us on where to park and they where also accordingly placed on roads that were closed just to make sure no one remove the cones placed there. Yes, people this does happened before.

Forgot to mention parking was free.

 Luggage Keeping Facilities

Although it was a bit further down than where all the activities where taken place, I think it is a bit more secure as there was no crowd at the location and the person in charge can focus and not be distracted. They also decided to segregate the booth according to the distance you run so there was no queue when I went to send and retrieve my bag.

Water

The was lots of water. They gave mineral water bottles both before and after the race. The during the race there was 3 water stations; normaly they put only 2 water stations even though sometimes they advertise 3 . Feel so cheated when that happened.

Cheers and fireworks

They started the race with fireworks how awesome is that ... not much can goes wrong in event if you got fireworks :-)

Anyway along the way again strategically placed cheer team. The first cheer group encounter was probably; if not mostly BSN workers. Don't know if it was volunteer or instructed but they all were such good sport cheering us on going up the hill. Then there was the marching band; loud speaker was place in some location blasting songs and some tradisional indian drums was played. It was all  good keeping the energy level high.

Food

At the end of the race they gave us packet  food; currypuff and remember anything else.

Anyway Tina finish 1hr 43 min this is a huge improvement from her last race which was 1hr 55min. I did not improve as much my last race was 1hr 33min and this time I clock in 1hr 31min. Hope next time I can clock in 1hr 25+ish min.

PIKOM CHARITY RUN 2011

Running Details

Event Name: PIKOM Charity Run 2011
Distance: 6km
Running Buddy: Adzman aka ZCAT, Yana was suppose to join us but her alarm clock fail her that morning as for Tina her class schedule clashes with the running date. No worries ALL the afore mention running buddies will be running for the BSN-Putrajaya Night Race this coming Saturday (15/10/2011) and the Penang Bridge International Marathon (20/11/2011)



THE RACE ROUTE

The race started at 7.30am from Capsquare, what fun about the race is the route. We had to run up the KL Tower Hill; going up it was a battle as the hill steep but going down was a different story. Almost everyone got a huge smile going down the hill, I know I had one.
As for the race event, it was small compared to other races I had participated but it was well organised. No long que for anything, they had food and lucky draw grand prize was a Laptop and Ipad 2.

This race restore my excitement in running which I loss some a few months before Raya. A huge reason behind this was someone close to me said he sees no fun in running and finishing a run. He can't understand why I am running and writing about running; his exact word was "nothing special in running". Well I can't change his mind. The important thing is, right now I like running. I don't know if I will be doing it in 5 years time so for the time being this blog will continue to be about my running escapes.... So up yours!

Ok picture time

Me with Zcat proudly showing
off his medal

Women Open B

Runs Updates

I did the Siemen Run with Tina clock in at 1hr 30+ min do not have the exact time. The organiser only display up to 300 names and the last time stated was 1hr 23min, I was 7 min to late .....

Anyway for the Shape Night Run I clock at 1hr 49 min for 12k, got the time from the organiser website. Am thinking of the Penang Bridge International Marathon which I will be running 21k . I probably finish within 3+hrs. Hopefully there will still be people around...

Anyway latest updates of of running events

Month	Run/ Walk Name	Distance
January	One Utama Fun Walk	5k
February	No race
March	Bareno Run	5k
April	NewHam 10k Classic	10k
	Energizer Night Race	5k
May	Borneo International Run	10k
June	Kordel Charity Walk	7k
	Standard Chartered KL Run	10k
July	NTV7 Feel Good Run	7k
	BHP Orange Man Run	11k
	Shape & Men Night Race	12k
August	No race - Ramadhan
September	Siemen Run	10k
October	Adidas King of the Road - Did not participate was in Ipoh	10k
	Pikom Charity Run	6k
	BSN Putrajaya Night Run	10k
November	CICM Responsinle Care Run 2011	10k
	Penang International Marathon	21k
December	Malakoff Run	12k

Fasting & Eid ul-Fitr

Hmmm ....... during fasting month did not do anything much actually only manage to go to the gym twice during that month and then came Eid ul-fitr aka Hari Raya was so much worst. Ate everything twice and overindulgence during Raya open houses, Fuad's wedding and office pot-lucks I am lucky did not gain anything fuhhhh .... 

Anyway in September I have 2 runs , Siemen and Adidas. However I will not be attending the Adidas because of family obligations (hubby's cousin is getting married). I don't really feel like going for the Siemen run, my running bug is still on leave balik kampung for raya I guess. Tina register as well and is looking forward to run this weekend so I guess I have to go and be supportive . Which is actually a good thing because of the run   I am back to the gym not 4-5 times a week as I used to but better then none. 

Next week I promise my trainer I will kick-start my training with her; this remain to be seen as I change office and is now in Mines. The Wangsa Walk gym in Keramat is a long distance to travel even if it is only for 3x a week. 

Update

Just an update on the races I have done. To tell you the truth becoming a bit lazy and don't know if I am going to finish this thing .....  hmmmmm

Month	Run/ Walk Name	Distance
January	One Utama Fun Walk	5k
February	No race
March	Bareno Run	5k
April	NewHam 10k Classic	10k
	Energizer Night Race	5k
May	Borneo International Run	10k
June	Kordel Charity Walk	7k
	Standard Chartered KL Run	10k
July	NTV7 Feel Good Run	7k
	BHP Orange Man Run	11k
	Shape & Men Night Race	12k
August	No race - Ramadhan
September	Siemen Run	10k
October	Adidas King of the Road	10k
	BSN Putrajaya Night Run	10k
November	CICM Responsinle Care Run 2011	10k
	Penang International Marathon	21k
December	No race schedule yet - probably Malakoff 18 December 2011	12k

More Races Ran in July - BHP Orange Man 11k & Shape Night Run 12k

First Race - BHP Orange Man Run
Distance - 11k
Location - D'Curve Mutiara Damansara
Running Budies - Tina Zahani (aka Fudgy Fingers)

This race was organise by BHP where Arif work so he assisted us the registering as there was no online registering available ..... (which I think is weird). The best part is the registration fees is only RM5 ...yups very cheap considering other event usually will charge RM40 - 50 per race.

Anyway, July have been a busy month for me with my trip to Redang and taking charge of my company Teambuilding trip I did not have much time to train or go to the gym.  But I figure, what the hell I have run 10k before so this should not be a problem.

So on the day I pick up Tina and we manage to just in time, Arif had to meet us at the starting line to pass us our BIB which he help collected. There was no t-shirt provide for the run ..hey RM5 where can get  t-shirt ...:-)

Anyway because of lack of preparation, the race was hard on me and knowing my Damasara roads I was thinking "man this is far" and "jauh nyer lagi.... die lah like this"   But I finish the race. For RM5 there was lots of food. Arif was in charge of the Nasi Lemak counter where we got extra nasi ... thanks Arif

First Race - Shape Men-Health Night Race

Distance - 12k
Location - Putrajaya
Running Budies - Tina Zahani, Adzman (Zcat) and Ct Roziyana (Yana)

This race was really hard ... why ? Mainly because I did not prepare anything. I have been busy at work, just came back from company Team Building as participant and organizer which is very tiresome.

Anyway I ran and finish but my timing was bad I finish  1hr 40min so the guys that did 5k had to wait 1hr for me..... sad ....

Picture .... will upload later ... I only have pictures for the Shape Run, Tina the fudgy fingers cuold not manage to take any pictures for me at for the BHP. Her fingers were to fudgy for my phone camera ... Hampeh ... hampeh .....

Done Standard Chartered KL Run & NTV7 Feel Good Run

There is a lot of run in the month of July. I guess everyone wanted to organise their run/ race before the month of Ramadhan which is in August. Hmmmm did they forget there is October, November or December ?
Anyway as the title stated, I done The Standard Chartered KL Marathon a 10k and NTV7 Feel Good Run (running with the stars) a 7k.
On both occasion my running Buddies are Tina and Adzman. Tina ran/ walk the same distance as me and as for Adzman he did 5k for the SCKL and 3k for the NTV7.
Nothing much to say, a run is a run.