Do SEX affect sport performance?

That was what we were made to believe. When we were at a tender age, we received these advise from our seniors. Seniors means not from family members but those secondary students and later those married working colleagues. Why? we young maniac eager to know. As according to those expert at that time, having too much sex will made you loss much blood. Blood? Oh my goodness, we are so damn green. OK, that was history.

So I thought why not do some experiment.
a) KLIM 2006 - no sex for 1 month b4 race - timed 4.43.21
b) PBIM 2006 - sex 1 week b4 race - timed 5.01.33
c) Putrajaya - sex 3 days b4 race - timed 5.20.23

Wonder have sex 1 day b4 race the time will be 6.xx.xx

So can we conclude that SEX do affect sports performance?

Question : Is sex a kind of sport too? If it is then have sex 2nite and tomorrow nite, your sex performance will be degraded?

Putrajaya Marathon 2005

This was my 6th marathon and always as usual could not sleep properly the night before the race. I should have slept more two days ahead. What an initiative. I forgot to wear my watch for this run. No big deal then. A JOY RUN.

We reached Putrajaya at about 5.35am and parked near the mosque. Since Peter, Leow, and me ran for the full, we made our way to the starting point. To our surprised the starting point was not at where we thought it supposed to be. OK, we walked a further up to check the starting point. On our way we saw a distance marker 39km and it really chilled us that there was another 3km to the finishing line. Usually finishing line = starting line. So make a run back to the car park and alert our runners that the starting point was still a few KM ahead. We jumped into the car and speed off. Truely, 3km up was the starting line. So we got into the barricades 5 mins before start.

The bang of the gun sounded like a 'POP'. The road is wide and not much pushing and shoulder knocking. Surrounding was quiet except the slapping sound of the shoes and the hard breathing. At 18km mark, I need to walked. My muscles were pulling. Reached 20km, timed 2hrs. Met a pacesetters member and we walked and chat most of way. It seems the heat of the blasting down doesn't seems to bother us. As we reached 35km mark, we start a slow run back to the finishing line. 5.20.35, the time my right foot step on the finishing line.

- very less traffic
- very properly laid distance markers. The best I encounter.
- Believe it or not, every 2km one water station
- 40km and 41km were placed water station
- a demotivating loooong 1 way up gradient after the 30km





Our Captain and Ms Leong




(Pics extracted fr KC & Sunshine Runner blog)

Wild 14km Trailblazer

The more dirty you get, the more you enjoy this race. Before the race start, your mind must be tuned to this expectations.

We start 6am from home and reached Awana by 7.15am. Step out of car, the air was so cool and made you shiver at times. The road was wet so we expected a slippery jungle trek. Got ourselves registered and collected our goodies bag. It was a surprised a backpack was given. Make our way back to the carpark and got ourselves suit up. By the time we made ourselves back to the starting ground, it was about 8am.

We gathered at the front line. We expected to make a fast dashed forward as we do not want to stuck in traffic jam when in the narrow single lane highway of the jungle. Moreover, the wet trek will not be so slippery for early runners. BANG! I was at front top 20 runners. Did not bother where Peter was as I know he will catch up with me sooner or later.

First 1/2km ran on tar road and enter into the jungle through a gate and this was where hell is. To recalled back it is almost a 1/2km of down gradient at 45 degrees or more. You don't run down but mostly jumping down the slope. My braking system is not very good so when my feet touched the ground it start to lift again. Fortunately, my absorber system is good. Negotiating wildly, jumping over fallen tree trunk. Just no time to look ahead even for a glance.

Then we came to 2nd of hell. Upwards slope 45 degree or more and from here it seems there was no downlope. I have no recall of any flat or down slope. Maybe someone jog my memory later as these stretch made me grasping for oxygen and having double vision. Some stretch we have to be on all four. Need to climb over, crawl under logs and huge stones. Ai-yo worst than climbing Mt KK. My legs, arms, body all turn sour with fatigue. WILD LOH.

We finally reached the 1st and only water station. It was easy as from here. It is up gradient but still manageable to run at a constant slow pace. I think from here is about 2km to finishing line. Running through bushes and we reached at where we started. The last obstacle was to go through all the setup trenches and muddy pool and those muddy walls before you make a last dash to the finishing line.



Conclusion : GOOD, really WILD, really FUN
Worth d $$ : NO
Will come again : NO
Why : Entrance fees too expensive
Goodies bag : Let down, Absolutely nothing to shout about.
Metal : Those wordings should be bigger