Mizuno Wave Run 2010

“There was a man who complained he had no shoes; then he met a man who had no feet”.

LATEST:

OFFICIAL RESULT

TIME: 1.01.46

PLACING:

298/1580 (Category Men Open)

444/2123 (Gender)

482/2906 (Overall)

 

This is the run that i almost DNS (Did Not Start) due to my PF injury, i was carrying this injury from Nike + Hooha run last week and it getting worst after my 9km recovery run, and that was my only training for this event.

I left some sort of message at Yim’s blog to give away the bib, and the next morning i received text message from Ijam and Deo inquiring about my injury, thanks for your concern guys, friends like you makes running fraternity special. So i rested my feet the whole week and almost gave away my bib to Che, but on Friday my feet felt better and i made a calculated risk to run the race with careful non-Gung Ho pace. Sorry Che, hoped you get KA’s bib.

Arrived at the race site few minutes before 6 am and parked my car in front of the UPM gate/guard house, many runners already arriving at UPM those wee hours in the morning. Made my way to the surau for subuh prayer and then i met Fazli, a runner from the last Newton run. Talk a bit with him and made a warm up run at the rubber track, then Shanaz appeared from nowhere and said hi. She was surprised that i’m running this event and had this looked of concern i her face, she told me that she DNSed this run and gave her bib to her sister. I guess she read our blogs after all, more of a reader than commentator, Shaz you should comments our blog entries soon, just we know you were there.

Met more more familiar faces during warm ups, Diket with Det, KR and Azhar from Daily Mile. Didn’t see Yim, Deo or other RBUs anywhere at the starting line. The women category was flagged off at 7:15 am and the men had 10 minutes to catch up, this way i always have runners to overtake all the way to the finish line.

With Azhar from Daily Mile

I had Rocktape at my right feet and it helps putting the pains at bay during and after the race. I started the race with KR, Diket and Det, i was thinking of following Diket pace but he pushed his turbo right from the start, leaving me to follow Det’s pace. About 2km into the race, i overtook Ryzal/Hancik and tried to lambong him to open his turbo engine, he was content with his current pace. Half way during during the run, he overtook me blasting his turbo engine without mercy..he he. I didn’t saw Yim or Deo, these guys must at front of the pack running in cheetah pace!

I was running according to my feel and with the pace that i’m comfortable with, surprisingly i felt good despite of the injury, so pushed up the pace a bit and see how will the feet react. I was out of breath easily due to lack of training, so i just maintained 80 percent effort but the hills took a lot from me.

Note to myself, need to train hills and learn the correct running technique from RBUs king of the hill.

Entering the stadium and completing the race (Photos: shanaz)

Darn i had to walk few metres during hills climb to catch my breath, entering 9th km i felt good and maintained a good pace to finish within an hour time, then i came to the final hill and all bets are off, this syaitoon hill took my last breath and i lost to the hill and had to walk a few meters up…coming down and trying to gain the lost momentum, i realised that sub 1 hour will be distance sombre memory. I pushed for a power finish at the track and completed the run with the timing of 1:01:42 (unofficial), overall i am happy to finish the race with limited finisher medal and looking forward to few days of rest and recovery before Genting Trailblazer.

With TNF legend – Yim (and soon to be – Deo the Cheetah TNF runner). Photo: Yim

Post race met RBUs peeps and runners friends, met Yim and Deo at Milo queue, a bit disappointed that the other TNF legends was not around, i was looking for autograph from the Avatar King..he he.  We gathered and gossiped about the recent TNF stories, i guess next year they’ll be an increased numbers in TNF participants from the RBUs. Zaki, Deo and the others RBUs peeps (including me) was truly excited reading current TNF runners blogs experiences. Many have already making plans in their heads about TNF 2011, training plans etc (please lambong Zaki and Deo here!).

L-R: Ryzal, me, Deo, Diket. Hancik usha awek mana tu? ish ish (Photo: Yim)

Later, we found that most of the RBUs peeps was at HUKM children ward participating in Kash’s organised Runner Gives Back project, where they entertained the children and gave away their beloved medal to the the kids as a gift (Yim gave away his TNF medal). Even McIjam was there clowning around with the kids, i congratulates runners involved in this project for their effort and kindness towards the unfortunate kids.

Photo: Deo

 Mizuno limited medal, a finisher medal is always 100 times betters than finisher toy.