LSD Ramadan@Putrajaya

 The “usual suspects” for the night run and cycling.

My feet were itching for a good run after 4 weeks of rest, Amsyah’s invitation for the Friday night LSD couldn’t come at a suitable time. I discussed earlier with Zaki going carpool with my car to Putrajaya, a few minutes after 9 p.m. i picked up Zaki at Esso station Bt. 3 Shah Alam for our 10 pm running rendezvous with the RBUs at Putrajaya.

We arrived few minutes before 10 pm and found out that the road bike gang already parked their cars and putting on their cycling gears for the night. I parked near PoJ and found Yim the birthday dude was busy putting on his cycling attire after his 7 km runs, he arrived much earlier than us.

At around 10.15 pm, the cycling gang was off and running pedalling towards their selected route. I estimate about 15 cyclists that nite, much more than our running gang which total about 11 runners. After the last runner arrived (Syed) at PoJ, we started plodding our way towards PICC, nice weather and lotsa beautiful night scenery. I intend to go slow after a lengthy period of running hibernation, and i planned only for 1 loop (11.9km route) for the nite. Syah completed 3 loops that night, and most of the runners did 2 loops.

Two of Ijam’s friends joined our run when we just about to complete the first loop, this is the guys that Ijam told us in his blog, the guy that ran with Croc sandals and running to the sound of Kitaro and Celine Dion. Syah warned me about the guys earlier, these guys are funny, one of them had a tailor-made his running short from kain pelikat/sarong, what can say, the guys are from Ijam the Clown  side..he he.

He had an MP3 player with speakers on and you could fool yourself running towards the beach with Kitaro as background music, clearly we could hear the sound of the waves and birds chirping before Celine Dion took over with killer love ballad song. Man i could never run with these playlist, i might run and sleep at the same time.

When we ran passed PoJ, someone shouted at us, at first we could not recognised who was the fellar, then it came – it was KA with his brand new hair, no more “Botak Chin”. I didn’t know he could do that..he he

After few minutes of break, the guys decided to run another loop and KA not wanting to be left behind joined them. I had enough for the nite, 12 km in 90 minutes. Don’t wanna push those mileage to soon to fast, anyway i only registered for 12km Newton race to the Zaki disbelief, most of them registered 26 km.

Queen FMV and Azza arrived at the scene soon after that, she came all the way from Port Kelang and bought a special birthday cake for our fellow friend Yim (celebrated the big  4  0). We later gathered at Precint 9’s Mamak shop for the compulsory Sahur and cake eating frenzy. Congrats Yim and Happy Birthday to you and the new Junior Veteran category:)

 Lambong away session

Some of the runners and Cyclists that nite. (L-R: Nizam, Ian, me, Zaki, Diket)

 RBUs and friends

 Ijam: Aku tumpang boleh tak? penat lari ni..he he

Nizam: Tengkorak kau Ijam, ni beskal lah bukan beca!

 Ijam’s friends (the Kitaro guy), Zaki (posing manja), me, KA (new hair – rambut raya ke?).

 Arrival of the Queen FMV and Azza greeted by KA and Ijam