Birthday Weekend

Last week, i celebrated my 41th birthday.

What better way to celebrates your birthday, than running 41km LSD.

That’s right, Friday night after work i ran 4 loops of my favourite route at PoJ. Although it was raining heavily in the late afternoon, it’s darn humid comes nightfall.

There’s no medal, cheers or finisher tee when i completed my 41km that night, just me and my train of thoughts. That’s all i really wanted on my birthday, to count my blessings.

Honestly I feel like 28 rather than 41. lol

I’m at the best shape of my life. I gotta admit it, i’m really thankful to god for blessing me with good health. To be able to pursue my passion at this stage of my life is the real “birthday” gift. Bliss :)

Comes Sunday morning, i celebrated my birthday weekend by running 30km of trail with two great friends. I completed 3 loops of Gunung Nuang trail (from entrance to Camp Lolo).

After a while, the trail of Nuang grows on me. It’s becoming my favourite trail now, it’s technically difficult compared to FRIM trail. The painful pleasure of it’s ascend and the speedy downhill on the return way back to the base – it’s Nuang signature appeals.

The best birthday weekend ever, 101km of total mileage with 1590 meters of elevation gain to boot. Can’t wait to do 42km birthday run next year :)

Photo: Azmil Tayeb