Hulu Langat Marathon 2017
At time of writing, it was already almost a year after this race. But update I must, for reference of my old self later.
Ok, so I need to recall hard to remember this event by. The most important fact about the race was it was almost immediately after raya. I was quite desperate for a FM race. Hence I signed up for this one. I had the most #ramadhanrun in 2017 as well, due to this race. There's an FM coming right, of course I had to train for it. And to make it worse, the route was known to be a hilly one. So I just tried what I could.
I went on my own, all the way to Hulu Langat. Quite crazy and gung ho there. luckily it was a small event setup, so parking was not much of a problem. The race started quite late, so I was expecting a sunny finish. Hence I was quite prepared with sunblock and all. I had to study the route real hard, in order to know is there any surau or petrol station around. After the survey, did some calculation, I know I had to do my Subuh anywhere I could. So I brought telekung along. William joined as well, but I arrived quite late and we didn't even start the race together.
The race started quite dark. I had no lights with me, nor there was a lot of street light. So I had to ensure that I would tag along someone with light on. So I ended up most of the time with this guy. I don't think he was quite pleased with me tagging along, but he had to somehow succumbed to it, and used me to his benefit as well. I know that I had pushed him a bit by always tagging with him along. So at least, there was some benefit for him there.
It was quite an uphill up till KM 15 or so. Uphill like, all the way up. And I wasn't ashamed of walking my way up as well. Me and the guy earlier, we stopped together for prayer, and continued again together as well. We were together until it was already bright, 7 plus or so, and it was already almost the flat land. But that was when he stopped pushing himself. Bumped into an IG friend who was already on his way back, and he later told me that the guy was his cousin, and we ended up being IG friend as well now. silent IG friend though. He turns out to be a an ortho, or en route to be an ortho surgeon. So envy for someone who's career is almost the same field as your hobby.
So back to the run. I continued on, and as was vastly expected, there was some durian party at about before km 30 mark. I stopped a while and enjoyed it like the others. The next stop, there was coconut drink being given out. so these was the specialty of this event. If anyone want to have durian freebies, go train for a full marathon and enroll in one. You can definitely eat durian all you can. Sadly, durian is not really my thing. Though I was so excited getting the durian for free.
On the finishing time, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would. I finished as below, with ample time spent for prayer. and the rank was not too bad as well. given the stop time for durian and it being right after ramadhan and raya, it wasn't too bad at all. And although my fitness had started to deteriorate at that time, the timing was still quite decent. So Alhamdulillah, another full marathon was in the book.
Hulu Langat Marathon 2017
Date: 9th July 2017
Venue: S.J.K (C) Choon Hwa, Batu 18, Hulu Langat
Distance: 42 km (Actual 41.8)
Position: 6
Official Time:5:01:38
Personal Time: 4:50:51
Pace: 6:57
Ok, so I need to recall hard to remember this event by. The most important fact about the race was it was almost immediately after raya. I was quite desperate for a FM race. Hence I signed up for this one. I had the most #ramadhanrun in 2017 as well, due to this race. There's an FM coming right, of course I had to train for it. And to make it worse, the route was known to be a hilly one. So I just tried what I could.
I went on my own, all the way to Hulu Langat. Quite crazy and gung ho there. luckily it was a small event setup, so parking was not much of a problem. The race started quite late, so I was expecting a sunny finish. Hence I was quite prepared with sunblock and all. I had to study the route real hard, in order to know is there any surau or petrol station around. After the survey, did some calculation, I know I had to do my Subuh anywhere I could. So I brought telekung along. William joined as well, but I arrived quite late and we didn't even start the race together.
The race started quite dark. I had no lights with me, nor there was a lot of street light. So I had to ensure that I would tag along someone with light on. So I ended up most of the time with this guy. I don't think he was quite pleased with me tagging along, but he had to somehow succumbed to it, and used me to his benefit as well. I know that I had pushed him a bit by always tagging with him along. So at least, there was some benefit for him there.
It was quite an uphill up till KM 15 or so. Uphill like, all the way up. And I wasn't ashamed of walking my way up as well. Me and the guy earlier, we stopped together for prayer, and continued again together as well. We were together until it was already bright, 7 plus or so, and it was already almost the flat land. But that was when he stopped pushing himself. Bumped into an IG friend who was already on his way back, and he later told me that the guy was his cousin, and we ended up being IG friend as well now. silent IG friend though. He turns out to be a an ortho, or en route to be an ortho surgeon. So envy for someone who's career is almost the same field as your hobby.
So back to the run. I continued on, and as was vastly expected, there was some durian party at about before km 30 mark. I stopped a while and enjoyed it like the others. The next stop, there was coconut drink being given out. so these was the specialty of this event. If anyone want to have durian freebies, go train for a full marathon and enroll in one. You can definitely eat durian all you can. Sadly, durian is not really my thing. Though I was so excited getting the durian for free.
On the finishing time, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would. I finished as below, with ample time spent for prayer. and the rank was not too bad as well. given the stop time for durian and it being right after ramadhan and raya, it wasn't too bad at all. And although my fitness had started to deteriorate at that time, the timing was still quite decent. So Alhamdulillah, another full marathon was in the book.
Hulu Langat Marathon 2017
Date: 9th July 2017
Venue: S.J.K (C) Choon Hwa, Batu 18, Hulu Langat
Distance: 42 km (Actual 41.8)
Position: 6
Official Time:5:01:38
Personal Time: 4:50:51
Pace: 6:57
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