My First half Marathon!

Posted in , by Bullslayer_lee on Sunday, June 24, 2007



Yes! I finished the 22.3km half Penang Bridge Marathon within 2 hr 30 min!mrgreen


This is a pic that we took at Seremban home before we headed off to Penang on the 23rd of June 2007


We took a damn fucking lousy bus to Penang. The bus was old and very very shaky, it's like my balls were literally churning around in my scrotum. It took us bloody 8 hours to reach Penang in such a rocky ride with the rude bus driver swearing and simply horning the traffic. Oh, the bus was so lousy that it's max speed in ascending a 20 degree slope was like 20km/hr, fucking pissed! We reached Queensbay Mall at around 6:30pm to meet up with hai duan to register our run. There were 5 of us from IMU, from the left, Foo, me, Duan, President and Kaizo.

Along with the registration, we were given a coupon from KFC to buy the above meal with RM8. No doubt, we had to make good use of it right? Naturally, this became our dinner. Now come to think of it, why am i eating KFC in Penang? bloody sohai... After our scrumptious dinner, we still had to wait for our marathon T-shirt, which ran out of stock. We finally left Queensbay at 9pm on a shutter bus after all the hassles. Of course ah Duan left us halfway in search of his Penang beauty, and yes, he is now officially attached, congratulations!

the jacuzzi tub is so huge, but never got the chance to use it because there's no lock btw the bedroom and the toilet! wtf??

We reached our hotel, The Northam at around 10am. It was 5 stars according to Foo and it was an all suite hotel, sweet! However, our budget only allow us for a junior suite which only came with 2 single beds. I was thrown to the living room to sleep on a sofa while the other three occupied the beds. Ah duan went out late with his beauty and made the ultimate sacrifice by sleeping on the floor, muahhaa. lol


we reached the starting line late the following day at around 4:25am. Therefore, we started about 15 min later than the other ppl. We started at around 4:45am. It was tough for a first timer like me. The bridge seemed so long and at one time i thought why on earth am i here if i cannot get a medal? that's wat kept me going. Had cramps twice but was happy that i could still run a little and not completely crippled by it. One thing for sure, the bridge stinks! It has characteristic stinks at different parts of the bridge. I thought this marathon is suppose to promote tourism? How to attract ppl when the bridge stinks like this! if i weren't exhausted to death, i would have been stink to death! wtf, pls do something about it! This were our results:

1) kaizo first.
2) Duan second. He demonstrated to us the power of love
3) me
4) foo. Surprised me. He is the best and most veteran among us, but he got diarrhea along the way. that's unlucky for him
5) president. Suprised also, he actually finished the race! congratulations to him! he deserve the medal well with his multiple blisters on his feet!

I wasn't sure of each person's exact time. I'm sure they will blog about it. I'm just happy that i finish before 2 and a half hours although barely made it but yeah, that's my target.

Pic taken at the lobby of the hotel while we waiting for the taxi to send us to the terminal bus station. Ah duan was missing because he wanted some quality time with his new found love. Once again, congratulations to all of us! Like they say, impossible is nothing!

3 comments:

  1. penguin_lin said,

    woo..congrates! I want the medal! is it heavy?

    on June 25, 2007 at 9:03 AM  


  2. penguin_lin said,

    And...and... penguin is terribly sorry for the konsortium bus hassle..
    Sorry, ASS..

    on June 25, 2007 at 3:30 PM  


  3. K.K. said,

    tks to your "konsortium bus hassle", we get to have a great ride on the NICE bus.

    did daniel tell u what the bus-waitress did to him?

    hahaha...

    on June 25, 2007 at 9:29 PM  


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