Monday, January 29, 2007

Recovery Week

Guess after the euphoria of GE20k... my body was very tired and slow to respond to further training......... a summary of the week goes like this:-

Monday - Swim 800m easy morning........ afternoon too lazy to run...
Tuesday - wanted to go for easy run... but then met up with Hashim, Jeremy and Asri... teruknya had to run a new route about 13km ......... was totally exhausted as it was dry and hot ... felt so dehydrated........
Wednesday - felt a bit better so went to gym....... did some supersets include dead lift
Thursday - swim as usual with Gerry........ PADE closed so went to Matshushita...... manage only 1800m ......... as pool closes at 720pm
Friday - run at kiara........ arrive late so just went easy 4 loops.......
Sat - should be long run at Titiwangsa........ but sakit perut and i feel soooooo lethargic.... continued to sleep....... afternoon squash.... tired beb......... wanted to sleep at 930pm just after delicious Puchong yong tau foo...
Sun - medium run 5k ++

Total run mileage was about only +/- 25km........ what to do... recovery week mah.......
Pledge to do better next week....... but alamak gottta picture and thaipusam on thursday...... hentam only lah.....

Monday, January 22, 2007

GE 20k Conquered

Not sure why but was a bit excited about the run cause its the first time doing above 10k... neways i have prepared enough and its just the timing which i hope to achieve..... was telling everyone 1:45 to 1:50 ..... sure i would achieve it...

Didnt have a good night sleep as had some beer the night before.... was good as Liverpool thrashed Chelsea 2-0....... wanted to sleep at 11pm just after the match... but was turning around in bed and had to wake up about 3 times just to pee..... then the alarm clocked rang at 4.45am.... got ready in about half an hour and went down.... but OMG .... perut sakit again.... had to pit stop at the swimming toilet to lepas again.... luckily not during the run...

Upon reaching the boathouse (the starting line) i heard the gun went off.... signalling the starting of 30km at 6am sharp.... queue up abit at the toilet and went to the starting line.... met up with Wendy, Jaja, Khairul, Azman, and suprisingly Mon (triahthele i met at Chin Woo Biathlon) , Daniel (veteran runner at Kiara, damn fast).... chat a bit and got ready at the starting line.... was a bit kiasu so went in front .... dont want to waste precious seconds waiting for the jam at the starting point....

Sharp at 630am the gun was let off..... everyone was sprinting like mad.... we were running like 30 minutes in the dark.... manage to keep to my pace.... some were faster and gotta let them go off.... just followed a small sized lady runner.... God she was good..... upon reaching hartamas she was way infront of me already...... reach the water stop at hartamas at 54mins.... stilll quite good but gotta pick up the pace for me to finish under 1:50.... last 5km was already struggling but still manage to keep the pace... few runners especially 30km fella were overtaking me ...... as the finishing line looms... manage to pick up the pace and overtake one runner before powering through the finish line..... it was a real good run... finish in 1:48 ..... in 36th place.... not bad huh for a first timer doing 20k....

just lepak with the guys and went back home at 1030 am... some runners were only making their way back... hats off to them for the determination to complete the race....

Posing with the group before run, Azrul, Jaja,Khairul,Wendy and me

me and wendy

kao kao finishing turbo

with the gang after finishing.... i look tall huh...

azwar@zebets@monyet


Wednesday, January 17, 2007

GE 20k Preparation

GE is this coming sunday already......... getting very excited as this is my first race longer than 10km... almost equivalent to half marathon.........

luckily i have done it a few times and i know the route well....... but just to recap my last training session in hartamas............ as usual i picked up mary just before 7am and reached bkt aman car park by 725am... waiting for jaja for awhile before shooting of at about 745 am....

bacin, jamil, mary and azman went to double hill while me, khairul, faie went for the usual hartamas route........... i started off strong but i could feel the fatigue from yesterday's hill run at kiara....... furhtermore i swam like shit the past 2 days and i could feel that my fuel tank is on high alert....... i was already struggling when reaching Petronas for a break..... met Awea who just finished his rest........ and was quite suprise to find Jess, Awea's gf just reaching a few minutes after.......... boy........ isnt she quick........

reach Petronas in 1hr........ which was way too slow (slowest of them all actually) ....... didnt rest long as Jess was shooting off quickly....... in my mind ....... i must follow her pace.... where can lose to a gal??? wish ful thinking .... i couldnt follow her and there i was running alone (actually panting like hell)......... so i was suprised that i saw her again when i reach the highway to cross over........ chat a bit ........ and we crossed together... wanted to follow her again.... but wrong move.... i am already using my emergency fuel ........ so after the 8km point... i started to walk and run......... and for the final slope (15 minutes) i walk all the way......... that also i was exhausted............ havent felt that way for a long time........... finished in 2:06........ man that was bad............ i really gotta rest and refresh...

neways i have push myself enough last week and this week i just had an easy run on Tuesday with some gym work on Monday..... has a rest yesterday.... and will do a swim with Gerry today... tommorow intend to play squash and some light run on Saturday...... by then i will be ready for GE.............

Monday, January 15, 2007

Grandmother passed away

has just finished my run and was having my lunch in Sri Petaling when i got the bad news from my dad..... grandma just passed away due to heart failure........(6/1/07).... felt a bit sad but was relieved that at least she didnt suffered much... at the age of 83 it was a good time to go... furthemore she was already quite sickly and didnt have much energy to carry on...

my dad and fourth uncle left almost immediately to Langkawi while the others left with me early the morning on Sunday... reach Langkawi by 3pm.... went back to my grandpa's new bungalow... big and nice .... but it has been raining non stop and was quite afraid that my car which was parked in Kuala kedah would be flooded....

did nothing much there but slept, eat and prayed for her.... no point to cry as she will not come back... but i did wanna cry during the sending off ceremony on Wednesday morning.. so many ppl came to pay their last respects...... immediately after funeral rushed back by ferry and reached home by 12pm.... damn tired....

neways dont have much memories of her as i was not close to her.... dont talk much with grandparents and we only visit them once every year during Chinese New year... may she Rest in peace and have a better life somewhere else.... life goes on...

Wednesday, January 3, 2007

Married ...... pictures

The RM80 hand bouquet.... some kind of lily i think...
at Maha Vihara site....
special effects taken by Wai Marn... special thanks to her...

As promised these are the few pictures which SM provided and approved to be on my blog... hehehe....

Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Married....

30th December 2006.... a date to remember ... this is when i lost my bachelorhood.... (is there a word for it) ... it happened so fast that its been quite a blur since then...

The time for registration is at 130pm at Maha Vihara temple in Brickfields..... SM's mother (Mother in Law - MIL) and brothers came down from Penang on Friday night to witness our historic event.... didnt have the time for Hartamas run (if i did my ears would be missing already) haha... so went for a short swim.. just 1500m nia.. nothing fancy.... by the time i got back home MIL was up already..... hahah and she complained that i should have waken SM up and ask her to swim as well.......... what to do have to say next time loh....

First mission : to collect her hand bouquet in Petaling Street .... cost me RM80.... wa lau leh.... RM80 for one lousy hand bouquet.... cinya sakit hati... but anyway its once in a life time and the bouquet was really nice .... so actually worth it lah....

Second mission : to pick up our photographer Wai Marn and send them for SM's make up session in Tmn Desa.... went back home to pick up the family and pick them up again after the make up.... aduh..... reached about 1215 pm and they were still not ready..... finished at about 1245pm... was very agitated already as get very close to the registration time.....

manage to reach Maha Vihara at about 105pm.... there was already many familiar faces there.... friends and family members lah.... too many to name but thanks for all who came.... and also ok for those who tried but couldnt make it.... went up to the second floor and met up with the registrar..... thought 5 mins would be enough but it went on to about half an hour... didnt expect that the registrar got so many things to say..... hilarous at times...

finally sign the certificate and went down for blessings from monk..... then last but not least... photographs session.......... Kenny commented that there were so many san fans like never taken picture before.... hehehehe..... dont wanna name names.... not nice hoh.... finished about 230 pm and went for lunch at Sri Paandi for banana leaf rice..... reach back home in Bkt Jalil at about 430pm....

Manage to take a short nap before proceeding for family dinner at Overseas Restaurant.... have booked to tables there courtesy of SM and the dinner was good..... standard lah... a few Chinese dishes but it was good as the family was there for some bonding.... what a hectic day.....

will post the picture later....