New York City Marathon 2024 (World Marathon Majors)
Location: New York City, USA
Date: 3 November 2024
Distance: 42.195km
Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/12816269102
Organizer site: https://www.nyrr.org/tcsnycmarathon
PB! Official time of 4:43:46.
GPS watch time: 4:36:37. PB the 30k at 3:03:38.
Standard Chartered KL Marathon
Location: Kuala Lumpur City Centre, Malaysia
Date: 6 October 2024
Distance: 21.0975km
Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/12585176354
Organizer site: https://www.kl-marathon.com/
IJM Allianz Duo Highway Challenge
Location: NPE Malaysia
Date: 8 September 2024
Distance: 21.0975km
Strava: https://www.strava.com/activities/12353615092
Organizer site: https://www.ijmhighwayrun.com/
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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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.
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!
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.
I'm back, stronger! Woohoo!
More updates to come. But since the last post, I have done lots of events!
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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.
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 14th and 15th of July (Sprint and Olympic distances respectively) at the Admiral Marina & Leisure Club Hotel in Port Dickson.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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!
