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Thursday, November 01, 2007

Vodafone Delhi Half Marathon - Namaste

Collecting the Bibs...
With Frens... n Bro
The Ultimate Bro's...At the Guest house...
B4 the Run.....
Warmin..up...
In action...
for the album....the Medal n the Cert...

India Gate...monument for the warriors..
The Amazing Taj Mahal....
Mumtaj's tomb...
The Lotus Shrine..
The Red Fort ... the war castle...
It's ice-cream time...chaloo na...get one...

Wheelbarrow...???
The cook n care taker of the guest house... TQ !!!
at the Airport... in Sri Lanka...


more pics comin up...


Sun 28th Oct, 2007...New Delhi India..

I ran My first International half marathon away from...Malaysia...N it is the Delhi Half Marathon..About 30,000 runners took part in that event. Myself N Sri were the rep of Slowmovers...Reached Delhi on the 26th night via Sri Lankan airlines...met my fren Mr Valli there, Thank you..4 everything Mr.Valli...collected the Bib the next day at the Ansel Plaza, did some shoppin at Sahara Mall, Sarojini Street..put up at Vasanth Vihar Guest House.

Next morning ...got up ..had some Breakfast..straight to the running spot which is at the opposite of Nehru Park...a big park for indians to lepak....started at 7.45 am ...it was a clumsy start...the race was not very well organsied..n the Medal..???.. Finisihed in 1:55:20. it was difficult to run in a low humidity weather...begining of winter...lips dries up quickly but...very the nice cos the there were water station every 2km...but no isotonic drinks...
A few of celebrities too took part such as Prinyka Chopra, Gushan Grover..Dravid..n etc...the aweks were very the superb..gila...!!!

Spent few more days visiting sacred places, temples,monuments, historical places n building which includes The Taj Mahal in Agra......memang very the wonder of the world..carved n designed wholely with Macrana marble which can only be obtained 400 km away from Agra..n ...no paintings???... how the?? they brought that amount of marbles n carved like paintings n writings..in 16th century...?..then to The Red Fort.....Lotus Temple...the India Gate, House of the president..n etc.... back to Malaysia on the 1st Nov... Bye Delhi...!!

Monday, October 22, 2007

TC Kuantan Run - 10k

B4 the Run.. at Vistana hotel
TC Beach...

Panas..ing up..4 the run...

Larikeh tak ni.....
SlowMovers in action.. at the Pacesetter's 10k TC run 2007 .. Kuantan
one of the sloths....oops..look alike but not one...doin cablethon....
Abang's frens....
4 the album...
The medal ...


Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Teluk Cempedak Kuantan...

After the long Puasa N Raya Break.. most of the Slowmovers were back in action at The
Kuantan 10 k TC run organised by the Pacesetters. As usual few of us went early to Lepak..
Myself.Jaya N Fuzahir..(the thing)... went there on friday itself. Put up in Kristal budget hotel...oops!!! ...had our dinner in Tanjung Lumpur..Ikan di sweet sourkan...

The next day we moved to Vistana Hotel... as it was booked earlier thru the pacesetters...met Su N Fairul ..collected the Bibs N Shirts ..checked in.... welcomed few other Sanusi clans .. lepak..in Berjaya Megamall. Bfast at the Taj's corner...moved around the town....mencari running n trailing Shoes...hampa...dong...apa pun takda..! Lunch at the D'Mall corner.. ..to TC ..for beach walking, photography...+++. Dinner at Alif restoran....back to the hotel...watched EPL...while bincang n gossip...hal ehwal semasa... diketuai oleh Su dengan ahli..-nya Jaya,Chan, Fuzahir N Fairul.....ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzz!

Woke up at 5.00 am...got dressed very the nicely ...into running attire...drove to TC... saw the German who won the run.. cycling ... Did some panas -up...Met our regular running mates. 7.15 ..flaggggggged off.....First half...for about half n hour..felt like running with stones tied to the legs...muscles were tight..slight pain at the knee cap, just can't move fast....but got better n better as i was movin on without stoppin... I knew that if i stop i would screw up the entire run.... able to move faster at km 7 onwards...finished 34th at the timing of .. about 00:47:30. Is my knee ???? ... same prob again..Oh Boy....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Most of the slowmovers weren't at their pace due to too much of Ketupat, Nasi Himpit n Rendang...!! Selamat Hari Raya!

It's the Lucky Draw moment n it's time to give away about 6 Brook sports shoes ... Myself was one of the luckiest runner to miss by a number.....the number called out was A 023 N mine was A 022...what a miss!... I f only Su has registered me ........gurau saja...jgn marah ya...! Better luck next time ....kalau ada...tak pernah...??!!. Breakfast at Taj's corner again... back to hotel.. to mandi..manding...N back to KL..Bye Kuantan! Reached KL at about 4.00 pm..straight to Stadium at KLCC, cos 40% off for Adidas Chiba-Pro.. Bought one... the only one left N chao...to Kayu Ara...! It's my shoe day kot....!

Next would b the Delhi Vodafon Half Marathon at New Delhi on the 28th Oct 2007. Bye !.