Monday, September 11, 2006

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)

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