Score Marathon 2024 - Off Target

Score Marathon 2024 (AIA Vitality)

Location: Putrajaya, Malaysia

Date: 21 July 2024 

Distance: 21.0975km

Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/11939044580

Organizer site: https://scoremarathon.com

Powerman Asia Championship Malaysia 2024 - Managed PB on the Short

Date: 9 June 2024

Location: Putrajaya, Malaysia

Distance: Duathlon (Short)

Total Time: 1:52:42

Time Breakdown: 26 min run (5km); 54min cycle (30km); 27 min run (5km)

Results: 25 in AG, 268 Overall

Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/11607847891 

Organizer: https://www.powerman.my/

Side note: The kiddo, Caitlyn, did the Power Kids too!

Photos purchased from various photographers and the official site.

FGA Run 2024 - Personal Fastest 10km

Location: Bukit Jalil (Pavillion)

Date: 22 May 2024 

Distance: 10km (recorded 9.4km) 

Time: 52 mins (PB) 

Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/11467022050

Organizer site: https://www.facebook.com/runforfga

Port Dickson Triathlon 2024: Best Personal OD (shorten) Race

Date: 5 May 2024

Location: Port Dickson, Seremban, Malaysia

Distance: Olympic Triathlon

Total Time: 2:54:51

Time Breakdown: 26 min swim (1.5km); 1:20 cycle (40km); 1:03 run (10km)

Results: 64 in AG, 179 Overall

Official Race Results: https://my.raceresult.com/288545/

Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/11334337688 

Organizer: https://www.facebook.com/TriathlonMalaysia

Photo purchased from Zahid Zidane.

Running for Hospis Malaysia 2024

This year, I will be running the half marathon in Kuala Lumpur Standard Chartered Marathon 2024 (KLSCM) on October 2024 under the Run For a Reason program.

Checkout my profile and support the charity by clicking on the link in my profile here or DONATE Now: 

Hospis Malaysia is a charitable organisation providing professional community palliative care to those with life-limiting illnesses (such as cancer, AIDS, organ failure or progressive neurological conditions). They rely on public donations to provide the services and facilities FOC. 

#runforareason #hospismalaysia #KLSCM #running #charity #KLSCM2024 #hospis #rfar #donationklscm

Run For A Reason: Hospis Malaysia

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KL City Half Marathon 2024

First race of the year, ran the KL City Half Marathon today. 

There were quite a few hills to conquer especially going up and down and up again at Bukit Tunku. Was a good training run and managed to break-in the new shoe Saucony Endorphin Speed 3 on a longer distance and absolutely love how well it performed and it helping me keep my running form. 

Was 2:15 on the HM (short by about 500m). PB a few segments and worked out just great as the first run event. Strava.

#KLCity #HalfMarathon #running #saucony #endorphinSpeed 

New York City Virtual Run 2023

A virtual run is not always the easiest. Moreso done on a full marathon distance of 42km. But this virtual run was great fun and with the support of buddies to run with. 

The New York City Virtual Run (Guaranteed Entry) was a lucky get for me. At the stroke of midnight, logged in and registered. Both Jeremy (my run buddy) and I got the draw to register and so we did. Some paid USD later, entry accepted and here we are to complete this run on 29 October 2023. The run needs to be completed within the same day but no time limit. 

This is my 2nd marathon within a span of a month and this actually turned out much better than the recent KL Standard Chartered Marathon (KLSCM - Painful Run). With this completed, both Jeremy and I got a guaranteed (non-complimentary) entry to the TCS New York City Marathon in 2024! This upcoming run will mark our 2nd Abbott World Marathon Major (1st was Tokyo Marathon for both of us, 2017 and 2023 respectively). 

Catch us in the video of our run!

See the route we took on Strava  Essentially from Saujana to Ara Damansara to Tropicana to Kota Damansara and back, then 2 loops of Ara Damansara and completed the run by repeating the loops in Saujana.

See you soon NYC!

KLSCM 2023 - Painful Run

It has been 4 years since my last full marathon. This Kuala Lumpur Standard Chartered Marathon 2023 just ended on 1 October 2023 and reminded me of how much I hated running 42km and the pain that goes with it. No matter how hard you train, it still hurts. Maybe I did not train enough. Maybe I did not fuel enough. But it does remind me of what I need to do to make sure the next one won't be as painful.

The 6th Full Marathon (42km) was completed today at the Standard Chartered KL Marathon. What started as pace management became pain management at 30km onwards till the end. Off-target time by 25 minutes. But the journey here made it all worthwhile.

Notable note: A man passed us at the 30+km, looked over, smiled, and said, "I'm 77". Well, that was inspiring, and hopefully will still be able to do marathons in the 70s.

Time: 5:37:22

I will be back at month's end to do this again. We shall see! Stay Tuned.

Running for Dignity (KLSCM) 2023

DONATION REQUEST:

I’m running the full marathon (42.195km or 26 miles) and raising funds for Dignity through Kuala Lumpur Standard Chartered Marathon (KLSCM)!

Dignity for Children Foundation currently provides education and care to over 2,300 children in Sentul, Kuala Lumpur. They hope to raise RM400,000 through KLSCM to support 40 students to sit for their IGCSE examination.

Any amount helps.

To donate: bit.ly/StephenRaceProfile or https://www.kl-marathon.com/.../runners.../2023/10721155/ or https://registration.kl-marathon.com/rfar/donation/10721155

*Tax exemption receipt will be sent by the foundation
*100% of your donation will go towards supporting an underprivileged child to receive holistic education and care!

To know more and what they do for the children, go to www.dignityforchildren.org

**Update: Thank you all for donating. You have helped and Dignity For Children is grateful!

#runwithdignity #qualityeducationforall #stevoruns #KLSCM

I'm back! Stronger!

I'm back, stronger! Woohoo!

More updates to come. But since the last post, I have done lots of events!

SCKLM VR HM	Virtual	13-Dec-19	HM	2:03:43
Twincity Marathon	Putrajaya	24-Jul-22	HM	2:11:48
Powerman Asia Championship	Putrajaya	30-Oct-22	5-30-5	2:01:09
Standard Chartered KL Marathon	KL	13-Nov-22	HM	2:12:26
PD Tri	PD	19-Mar-23	OD	3:08:17
Malaysia Women Marathon	PJ State	14-May-23	HM	2:12:36
Powerman Asia Championship	Putrajaya	18-Jun-23	5-30-5	2:08:28
NPE Highway Challenge	NPE	09-Jul-23	HM	2:11:25
Score Run	Putrajaya	13-Aug-23	HM	2:06:50

#StevoRacese #RunWithMe #CycleWithMe #TriWithMe #RaceWithMe

Pandemic - Covid-19

And there you have it. Covid-19 and the pandemic. Throw a spanner in the plans. But all is well and we will come back stronger. Much stronger.

6th Malaysia Masters Speedo International Swimming Championship

Event: 6th Malaysia Masters Speedo International Swimming Championship

Date: 7 December 2019

Location: National Aquatic Center, Bukit Jalil

Events: 

• 50m Freestyle
• 50m Breaststroke
• 100m Breaststroke
• 4x50m Freestyle 

Team Swam Buaya swim team became the overall champs!

Osaka Marathon 2019

Osaka Marathon 2019

Location: Osaka Japan
Date: 1 December 2019
Discipline: Run
Distance:42km
Time: 

  Official Gun Time: 5:22: 40

  Office Net Time: 5:12:26

  Strava Moving Time: 4:55:53

Note: 

* After passing starting line, waited at the side for the next coral to start.

* Had 10mins toilet break at 25km,

BHP Orange Run 2019

BHP Orange Run 2019

Location: Petaling Jaya
Date:  3 November 2019
Discipline: Run
Distance: 11km
Results:

Net Time: 1:05:36
PB 10km: 55:40

Prior to race, warm up 8km: 48:57

Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2019

Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2019

Location: Kuala Lumpur
Date:  29 September 2019
Discipline: Run
Distance: 21km
Results:

Net Time: 02:17:40.15 
AG Position: 274
Overall Position: 1159

PJ Half Marathon 2019

PJ Half Marathon 2019

Location: Petaling Jaya
Date: 25 August 2019
Discipline: Run
Distance: 30km
Results:

• Chip time: 03:24:32
• Finished: 30.0 KM
• Speed: 8.8 km/h
• Pace: 06:49 min/km
• Overall position: 522 out of 2320
• Category position: 316 out of 1085

Everly Putrajaya TRIFACTOR International Triathlon 2019

Everly Putrajaya TRIFACTOR International Triathlon 2019

Location: Putrajaya
Date: 14 July 2019
Discipline: Triathlon
Distance: Sprint (750m Swim, 20km Bike, 5km Run)
Time:

• Swim: 0:21:07
• T1: 0:01:32
• Bike: 0:38:54
• T2: 0:00:47
• Run: 0:26:33
• Overall: 1:28:56

Position: 12th AG, 22th Overall.

Powerman Duathlon 2019

Powerman Duathlon 2019

Location: Putrajaya
Date: 3 March 2019
Discipline: Duathlon
Distance: Sprint (5km Run - 30km Cycle - 5km Run)
Time: 1:59:01
Split: 0:25:27 Run <> 0:03:01 T1 <> 0:58:24 Cycle <> 0:02:47 T2 <> 0:28:54 Run

Atria Makan Fun Run 2018

Atria Makan Fun Run 2018

Location: Damansara Jaya
Date: 21 October 2018
Discipline: Run
Distance: 5km
Time: ?

BHP Run 2018

BHP Run 2018

Location: Petaling Jaya
Date: 30 September 2018
Discipline: Run
Distance: 11km
Time: 1:05:46

2XU Half Marathon 2018

2XU Half Marathon 2018

Location: KL
Date: 23 September 2018
Discipline: Run
Distance: Half Marathon
Time: 2:20:16

Port Dickson Triathlon 2018

I’m back! First triathlon event since I stopped for the whole daddyathlon thing. Good to be back and decided to just do a Sprint event just like last year in the Port Dickson International Triathlon 2018. The race held on the 14^th and 15^th of July (Sprint and Olympic distances respectively) at the Admiral Marina & Leisure Club Hotel in Port Dickson.

The morning was nice cool weather. Just after a heavy rain earlier in the morning. Was cloudy and rather dark when the race started at 7:10am. Strong and high waves that morning too and felt I was swimming backwards and you climb the waves. Overall, the swim was much slower than last year.

Onto the bike leg and rode most way with this young man, Tri Sibling, who certainly have a very bring future in triathlons. We ended up running together too.

Overall, the bike and run was much faster than I did a year ago. Although feeling sleepy due to the lack of sleep running up to the weekend race, the run certainly felt better and much stronger as I was training for pace. Satisfied with a time of 1:24:00 (11th place in AG, 48th overall). Could have been better but that was indeed a tough swim.

Full results can be found here.

Unfortunately, the race had a tragedy with 2 deaths during the Olympic distance on Sunday. Condolences to the family and friends of the victims. One should never underestimate the dangers of open water swimming in the rough waters and the precaution the organizers should always take to ensure a safe race including but not limited to having enough lifeguards, support crew and a safer swim route (like swimming into the marina during the past) or cancel the swim entirely. May the victims rest in peace. 

BHP Orange Run 2017

Here comes the BHP Orange Run 2017 again on the 1st of October 2017. A cheap run of RM5 registration fee with no shirt and timing cheap but lots of goodies at the end of the run. What's more, it is right around the neighbourhood. So a run not to be missed even for the morning jog.

This year's route is new and takes us from The Curve to Tropicana to Bandar Utama and back. Totalling 11km (Garmin and Strava noted a shorter 10km+ though).

So I decided to sign up. No training for the last 3 months due to home duties. A week before, only managed a two short 2km sessions on the treadmill and that was it! And I suffered!

The BHP Run was meant to sort of get back into the groove of running, catch up with running friends and have fun. And so it was. Did a run walk run walk strategy with Terry (he was also on a come back run too) and it was indeed entertaining. We talked more than we ran though but good to be out here in the morning.

This reminded me of last year's BHP Orange Run 2016 where I finally managed to break the 1 hour mark for the 10km run. Looking forward to more improvements as I slowly come back to it with the new daddyathlon challenge.

Daddyathlon

Currently pursuing daddyathlon. Looks like I will be busy for a while but definitely have to maintain the fitness level to be able to jump back into triathlons and marathons when the time comes.

For now, will make some daddyathlon posts :)

Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2017

At first I thought that the Tokyo Marathon would be the last of my marathons for a while . The Tokyo Marathon being such an extraordinary race, would have been a perfect race to think back for a while before attempted another.

But how can you miss Malaysia's biggest marathon of the year? The Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2017 is the most popular marathon race event in Malaysia and around the region. Registration for the events gets full really quickly, some category within the first few days of launch.

I did not sign up at first as I wasn't sure I wanted to race but a friend needed to let his registration go and so we transferred the registration to me and I scrambled with the training.


On a cool morning on 21 May 2017, the Standard Chartered KL Marathon started at 4am. Off we went. Started the race at a pace faster than I expected but I continue to pushed on. It all went well until towards the 30km mark where my body started to feel weak. Still I managed to maintain the pace than I planned for as long as I can. But started off too fast and was slow dwindling down. The weather cooled down a bit as it even rained very heavily towards the last 5km of the race.

Finished the marathon in 5:47. Fastest I've done under Malaysian weather. Far from my Tokyo Marathon sub-5 hour race, but that was at dry cold 5C weather with the amazing crowds the entire 42km!

Indeed the Standard Chartered KL Marathon is a very well organized race, by Malaysian standards. Would certainly do it again.

This would mark the 4th marathon I've completed in the span of 7 months. I think my body needs to rest from these long races for a while. Time to focus on some speed work. Maybe the next one is Tokyo Marathon 2018? :)

Finishing the race