My first SCKLM - SCKLM 2018: 10 Years of Running

How's your working day? Did your Monday went well? Or are you drowning in bundle of works, stressing out waiting for weekend to come by?

The second day of work did not treat me good. I woke up sluggish in the morning, having flu now and my head's banging bang bang! But writing now may be a good therapy before having a short nap.

Just being here to write about my experience of participating the biggest running event in Malaysia last week, the Standard Chartered Kuala Lumpur Marathon.  My Instagram feed's still sorted with SCKLM pictures, throwback, experiences and stories about how excited the people were during the event. 

As a newbie in running world, I did not expect that I would participate in the event, as we (Dayang, Yanie and me) did not managed to register due to website crash every time we tried to. The slots had been sold out within 24 hours! I kept searching for bib and a lovely sister sold me out her half marathon bib. Yay! That was a week before the event.

I did not train for SCKLM. I do train everyday, I run every morning before heading to work, because it is a part of my life now. Can't go a day perfectly if I don't run.Specifically, I did not train for my 2nd HM. YBut yknow, an adrenaline rush can't resist  exciting things. Getting a bib and chance to run brought nervousness since I failed my first attempt to get sub 2:30 hours finish time during my first HM (Twincity Marathon 2018). I set my mind up to "Just run, whatever the result is, you rocked it". 

Wasn't trying to be competitive but to myself.

During the race day, I rocked out my new Adizero Adios 3, which I just found out that it doesn't need break in, you can just wear it straight for racing. Someone told me "You're not fast enough to run with these pair" but who cares anyway. Flag off was 5.30AM but I was late due to traffic. So I parked at KL Sentral, took free LRT to Masjid Jamek to go to Dataran Merdeka. As I was kinda late, I skipped warm up session. The flag off was on time and I was happy with it. The route of SCKLM is well known for its crazy killing slopes but thanks to pacer Sahlan, I managed to control my emotion. My first HM at Twincity- I pushed my pacer because he kept forcing me to go faster. Sorry, pacer! I started slow considering it's a warming up and went a little bit faster than my easy pace at KM2 & 3, and I slowed down until KM 15, he told me I could break previous timing even though if I run with my recovery pace. Yeah, I made it 2:30:13. Shaved off 10 minutes from my VHM, so decided to more breaking PB afterwards!

The water stations were perfect, there were also bands along the routes to cheer the runners up and the volunteers also being super supportive. They even did a gesture by hanging on the medals to the runners' necks. Oh I felt overwhelmed and appreciated.  The medal is so nice with pretty floral design, and a spinning middle part. Yey, another medal to the collection! The only disappointing thing was only no finisher tee for HM finishers. (Road to FM? hehe)

Special thanks here to my pacer who keeps motivating me to run and monitoring my progress, to the crews and runners at the cheering zone (I spotted Kyserunkrew, Naked Spirit Runners and LululemonMy. To anyone who chanted my name loud (Hahaha rasa macam retis) you guys are superbly awesome.
To Amir, Izzaz and Razmi for completing their VHM and 10KM run with nice timing and free injury.

And also to Dayang for picking me up, spending your time with me after the race and congratulates me more than five times and being proud of me, you are the best sister!

Foremost, to mom for not stopping me to run, for the support, and the carboload meal a day before. Hehe!

Day by day I fall in love more with running world, and I speak it out by training, reading and researching. A chubby girl here can run, why can't you? Let us run and shake off those fats!

Congratulations guys for breaking the wall!

llao llao reward!

with KL Striders superpower

Sub 3:30 Full Marathon finishers. Kudos all

Fresh from oven, mengantuk

Next mission?

I guess, it's time for a short power nap now. Till next time.

My two cents

It's bedtime now. My routine has changed about a month ago. I wake up early and go run before heading to office. I limit myself from staying up late at night, even though that's hard but I am happy with my new life.

Just being here to rant about some self dissatisfaction. I do not know why I am so not confident with myself. Like in anything or everything I do, I will never reach the finishing line. In love, life, or any small or big issues. Does anyone feel this too? Is it normal or not? Even though now, I am writing this, I'd been thinking repeatedly if should I or should not I post this. 

I always fear if I cannot do my best to make people happy, and if I say no I'll hurt people, I'd rather hurt than saying "I don't want this" or "No, I cannot do this" and these things are slowly killing me inside. No one loves to bring hope with no ending, and I always stranded in those things. 

I guess that's all. It's not about I have no one to talk to. It's about I don't want to trouble anyone. Because people don't have time for silly thing and thought.

Maybe I'm just too tired.