Burn some fat, Fatso

Is it that all repeat participants get back the same bib numbers as last year or it it just a coincidence.

00km - 05km = 0h 30m 02s (avg 6.00m per k)
05km - 10km = 0h 28m 23s (0h 58m 26s) (avg 5.78m per k)
10km - 15km = 0h 29m 30s (1hr 27m 56s) (avg 5.90m per k)
15km = 20km = 0h 30m 16s (1hr 58m 13s) (avg 6.06m per k)
20km - 30km = 1h 06m 14s (3hr 04m 28s) (avg 6.60m per k)
30km - 35km = 0h 39m 03s (3hr 43m 31s) (avg 7.81m per k)
35km - 40km = 0h 38m 56s (4h 22m 28s) (avg 7.79m per k)
40km -42....... = 0h 16m 54s (4h 39m 22s) (avg 8.45m per k)

00km - 05km = 29m 17 s (avg 5.86m per km)
05km - 10km = 28m 49s (avg 5.76m per km)
10km - 15km = 29m 18s (avg 5.86m per km)
15km - 20km = 29m 48s (avg 5.96m per km)
20km - 25km = 28m 30s (avg 5.70m per km)
25km - 30km = 29m 27s (avg 5.89m per km)
30km - 35km = 30m 50s (avg 6.16m per km)
35km - 40km = 31m 30s (avg 6.3m per km)
40km - 42km = 14m 07s

Completed in 4h 11m (avg 5.95m per km)



That's the pace ah-ha ah-ha I like it ah-ha ah-ha

Gimme 1 more year and I will talk Hokkien like pro. (hopefully)

A real warm sunday afternoon and Penang Flora Fest kick off today. Drop by at the botanical garden to do what I like to do best, photography. Just share with you some of those beautiful blooms. On one hand the flowers are really beautiful and never bore admiring. On another hand where are all the beautiful gals. Am I blinded by those colorful petals?






Yesterday had a food attack. Ever popular kuai-teow-t'ng and the assam laksa. Really shiook woh. Think about it also saliva dripping. Slurp ... slurp ...

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If show a picture of Har-Mee, you will explode. How to do a sub-4 in Penang Bridge Marathon. Just one month in Penang, it seems the dream of achieving sub-4 is fast diminishing. After wallop what shown above, we walked over to opposite road to wallop another bowl of superb fish ball kuai-teow soup. Here you cannot train gau-gau. You just eat gau-gau. Sign .......slurp .. slurp ..

Nope, not the Italy leaning Pisa tower or Pissa hut. It is just a normal sunday morning run at the PISA (Penang International Sports Arena). An absolutely flat, no traffic, sports ground. The loop is 1.2km circling a stadium, an indoor swimming pool, and a 4 stories car park. Today I am good boy, made 10 loops within 1hr 12mins. There were quite a number of other casual runners and walkers but a very let down no sui cha-boh. Many ah-pek, and ah-so. Anyway, all elder then is address like this.

This place is good leh. After your run, you can jump into the pool and continue your water training. One of a beautiful place for runners in Penang and is just 10mins from where I stay. Now dun this make you saliva dripping?

After the run, on the way back stop at a shop for a wonderful curry mee. The mee not so wonderful but the daughter of that stall is wonderful. You never get bore admiring her. Back in the apartment, an article caught my eyes. In fact two.


The 'INVASION' one is in Ayer Itam. Since I do not know that area I keep it for next trip. The 'KILLER' fried chicken is in Bayan Lepas. I know I just taken breakfast so what the hack, better go early before the queue build up. Done a swift bath and drove straight to that 'KILLER'. Wow just 15mins and you are there. Not so difficult to find. Wah-lau-eh, I thought I was early at 10.30am, there was already a long queue. The 'KILLER' taste more or less similar to the famous banana leaf in front of Klang Railway Station. Overall it is damn good, made me 6 blue fishes poorer, and dun this make you saliva dripping even more? Slurp... slurp....

A Run in 100 years, that what the slogan says.

It was a change of feel when we step into the Ipoh Padang. The field is vast and all the tent setup seems small. Approximately a 1000 runners as it seems. We started off just in front of the SMI school. The begining route take us round the town. It is a loop and we back to the starting area where we shoot off towards Kangsar Road. A straight and flat till we reached Tasek Road where we made our U-turn back home. Before the U-turn we saw a local runner was leading and 200M down a Kenyan.

It took me 1hr 50mins to complete the course and feeling surprised as to how I can did such a good timing without good training. Another surprised was why the Kenyan was not in the top 3 during prize giving ceremony.

Downside #1 : Later we found out that he lost his way back. The return leg, the marshal is a damn. Absolutely no one at all at all the junctions. Those marshal are not properly trained or inform as what need to do. They can even call those 21km runners to make a U-turn at where 10km need to make a U-turn. Why leh. The organization sucks.

Downside #2 - Not enough 21km medals for 21km runners. This really a superb let down. I never fancy Ipoh organise run ever since I got caught in such a mess from the Ipoh International Marathon.

Downside #3 - On our way home we decided to measured the distance. Oh shit just 18.9km. Curi ayam run

Plus side : The cheer leader routine demo, cultural show and various school bands performing was a real eye opener. The band uniform look neat, clean, tidy and the pattern they performed was good and interesting. Too bad I don't a camera on hand.

If anyone want to run this curi ayam run, just wait la for another 100 years.

Last Sunday made an appointment for a long run with Chin. He decided to go to Ayer Itam Dam. So woke up early and wait at the junction where I am staying. Got to know another runner Tan (right) and then met up with another guy from India, Sam (middle).


It was a pleasant run as the road curved around the reservoir. It is shady, and cooling. There are some acceptable up and down gradient. I was told the loop is about 3km. We made 7 loops that morning and this is the longest run I ever did after the KLIM 2007. Now the legs are itchy again. Next plan Chin suggest to run the road hugging the seaside. It will be another good running ground. Keep you saliva dripping.