LSD@Putrajaya

I was informed earlier that there will be a simulation of Sundown Marathon on Saturday night organized by the usual suspects of Running Bloggers(RB). Although i’m not taking part in Sundown, i could use the LSD as part of my mileage towards preparation of SCKLM. Ijam did convincing marketing job in promoting this running-get-together through his messages left in all blogroll listed in his’ blog…good job Ijam..he he

Group photo before the run (Photo taken from Haza’s FB)

I arrived at the Palace of Justice just before 9.00 p.m. and soon after Yimster arrived, followed by others Running Bloggers Diket, Nik, Shuk, Zaki111, Ian, Ziff, Syed, Khairul Anuar, Sharafali, Che “Glowie” and others (i might forgot some of them). There’s about 14 runners running their LSD that night, i met most of the RB in the flesh for the 1st time that nite, except for Ijam, Zaki111, Che and Yimster. Kash and her husband arrived later followed by Haza all the way from Kelang, but Haza was there NOT to run but came to support bunch of us running our LSD – well the camaraderie between us runners is something special if not magical.

Photo taken from Ijam’s blog 

After the “official ceremony” of taking group photos, the LSD was off and running at around 9.15 p.m. lead by Kash. I’m at the back of group with Che, Ziff, Ijam and Zaki111, the others was in front doing much faster pace than us. The route of the LSD is about 10 km or 11 km, starting point from PoJ towards the Putrajaya Mosque and then reroute back towards the PICC. Although it rains earlier in the afternoon, the Putrajaya weather still humid when we started running, after a while we’ll drenched in sweats. Most of the guys did 20 km to 30 km LSD that night, Che did 1 loop (10 km) and i ran about 15 km of Putrajaya, i just started recovering from injury and this my 1st week training and i do not intend to push too much too soon. It’s a nightmares having injuries and miss out of all the fun running!

The rest of runners stopped after 1 loop for toilet and drinks break, but i continued on completing half of remainder loop. As i about to complete my run, i ran into the rest of the runners starting their second loops. Most of them still in jovial mood running, that’s the difference between running solo and running in support group. I thought i saw Shah somewhere in the group, he must came later on.

I had few minutes after the run talking to Frank, he’s doing another Ultra in Sundown. He shared some running and shoes tips with me, thank you Frank and best of luck in Sundown. Ziff completed his run soon after Frank continued another loop, he told it’s pretty fast for an LSD and he even made a PB in his pace that night…he he. Congrats Ziff! I had to leave early for early morning drive to the north, but i had great fun running with these beautiful peeps, lets do it again soon and how about suggestion of pot luck LSD – everyone brings fruits, waters, curry puff etc..