Lari lagi :D

Masa entry di-publish, aku tengah berlari ni. hihihihi

Tunggu nanti aku update ok.

Semoga tak terperam berjaman la macam cerita 42.195km ini. 

hew hew hew

Cerita tentang 42.195km

Aih bukan main lama aku peram cerita ni, adus. Tapi takpelah, its better late than never. Alasan.

Anyway, lets just recap the day.

7/4/2013, Sunday.

Woke up at 130am because i need to be ready by 230am. Had 2 wholemeal bread with peanut butter spread, and by 3am we left UNITEN. Arrived at iCity at about 330am and the ambience was exhilirating. Met up with the rest of Krazirunners, Kak Millie, her pacer Kam, Kak Lina and my sister   I was all hyped up.

At 430am, we were flagged off. Oh man, i was super excited. Ran with my krazirunners sisters; kak millie and her pacer Kam, kak lina and pisha for a good 11km.  MGH and my sister was nowhere to be seen, maklumlah diorang target nak buat sub-5.

run happy!!

(yeahhhh masa ni mmg masih happy)

Stopped for solat at km16, at Petronas Station for a good 10mins++. Sempat lah men-touch up tinted lipbalm and betul2kan tudung yang dah senget2 tu. Melawa2 aku berlari FMV kalini, siap pakai eyeliner and tinted lipbalm uols. Eh, Kathrine Switzer runs wearing lipstick tau!

Kat sini, masing2 dah bawa diri masa ni. Pisha dah gerak dulu, Kak Millie and Kam dashed off soon after, kak lina was just arrive when I started to leave surau. Somewhere at Kompleks Sukan Air area, hunger pang striked. Serious lapar gila. I have eaten 1 energy gels at km 12, unfortunately tak cukup. huhuhu. Kak Millie going steady with her pacer, i just cant keep up, so i slowed down my pace.
From Bulatan Merak Kayangan, the route brought us into the city. Cuaca makin cerah, tapi tak terik.
Then sampai ke area UITM. Adui, ini memang mencabar. Hilly all the way up and down.
And make a U-TURN. REPEAT.
T_________T

Aku dah tak larat dah masa ni, berjalan lengkang kak limah aje naik bukit. Bila turun, baru aku lari balik. Jumpa Malik, Masyu, Bet, Jeli and Doc Liza yang lari 21km kat sini. Excited aku nampak kawan2 yang kenal walaupun di seberang jalan sana nun. hihihi.
Then after McD (near the uitm), we came across the 1st kedai runcit. Ada roti.. ada anggur, ada air isotonic sejuk. Aaaaaaa lega.
I took 1 gardenia waffle, gobbled a few grapes and drank a cup of isotonic and off I ran, sambil bawa waffle yang tak habis. he he.
Hilang kelaparanku. Sambung lari kembali.

Tengoklah tu aku tgh layan diri :P

Then at km27, my fav kedai runcit by the 2ndSkinAsia team under the shady trees. Seronoknya la hai kena spray air sejuk and those cold juicy watermelon.....OMG, memang terbaiklah. Other than watermelon, they served cold Fizz Isotonic drinks too. Sedap!!

cool spray mist by the IM Tristupe. :D

I spent quite sometime helping myself with those watermelons. Lama aku berhenti kat kedai runcit tu. Kemudian bila TERSEDAR yang aku sebenarnya masih dalam race, barulah beredar dari situ.
  -_____-"

Lari dan lari, sampai ke km30. Kena buat u-turn kat sini. Ada booth powerbar, they provided free gels, water and pisang. Ate pisang, took 1 energy gel, and did some stretching. Sebab kaki dah terasa sengal2 and keras. Kak Lina caught up with me at this station. Then we moved on.

Makan pisang :D

Oh man,  this is where it all started.
Aku memang tak pernah lari lebih dari 30km. Ada lagi 12.195km lagi untuk dihabiskan. So I didnt know what to expect.
Fizikal: Tapak kaki sakit, betis keras, badan letih.
Mental: Rasa menyesal kenapa aku lari fm ni, rasa marah sebab jauh lagi, rasa kecewa sebab aku nak lari but i walked instead.

RASA NAK MENJERIT2 MELEPASKAN PERASAAN. BUT I DIDNT.
AKU NANGIS JE YANG TERMAMPU.

With Kak Jun at her famous kedai runcit.

tq!!

Ada 2 kedai runcit sepanjang jalan last2 tu, kedai runcit deo (if im not mistaken, sorry kalau salah) and kedai runcit kak jun. But at this point, food or isotonics was not what i wanted. I remembered i cried reading motivation banners after kedai runcit kak jun.
I WAS JUST TOO MENTAL TO RUN.
huhuhuhuu


Tapi ada jugak la drama lawak aku buat masatu, i self-video sesi melepas perasaan sambil menangis for a good 1-2 minutes only to realize that i didnt press the record button. Huwah penat aku berdrama tp tak record pun. kahkahkahkah
Aku tekan balik record button cuma takdelah meroyan sangat masa tu sebab dah release tension tadi. :P

Taken by Baity!! Weeheee seronoknya ada dia support dari dalam kereta. 

Ha masa ni baru lepas sesi lepas perasaan yang lupa nak tekan record tu, cer tengok cara aku pegang phone tu.

:P

To be honest, for the last 10km, memang aku berjalannnnnnnnn aje. Walaupun cuaca tak panas terik, tapi suasana masatu memang boring gila. Route pun tak menarik, kena lari kat tepi jalan, kat atas curb yang tak rata. Dan bila kesorangan, it didnt help at all.

Nampak photog dari jauh, maka haruslah tunjuk gembira dan berlari kan?

tihihihiiiii

3km to go, Mawar and her pacer caught up. Her pacer (sorry lupa his nama) motivated me to join them running to the finishing line. Aku follow juga diorang for about 2km, tapi i had let them go sebab kena runner's stich pulak bila berlari. Adoi. Seksanya. Dahla tapak kaki sakit, kena pulak runner's stitch.
Seksa.

Bila dah sampai the final 1km, i called MGH to inform i was about to turn into iCity area, and I broke down again. Aku mengadu, penat...sakit kaki... MGH cakap, tak payah lari, jalan je la.
I said: JALAN PUN SAKIT!! huwwaaaaaaaa


Final 500m, aku nampak MGH. Nangis kegembiraan gitu. Then nampak ramai kawan2 dan runners lain bagi sokongan dan tepuk2 tangan.
Menggagahkan diri untuk lari, walaupun sebenarnya orang berjalan pun lagi laju T____T

Lari lari lari. 

:P

Yeahhhhhhhh sampai ke finishing akhirnya.
Alhamdulillah. Serious rasa nak baring kat atas jalan sebab akhirnya aku berjaya habiskan 42.195km ni.
Jauh oiiiii!!!!

MARATHONER!!!

*baling confetti*

Memang drama betul detik2 akhir nak sampai ke finishing line.
Ada 2 video shot by Fairy and Isaac but i am just so segan to show it here. hahahahahhahaaa
And those self-recorded video i took earlier, memang takkan lah aku tunjuk kat orang. Malueeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww.
:P

My fav picture of us, the FMV :))

love my krazirunners sisters *love*

Sambil menulis entry ni, i could help but to feel a bit emotional about the journey and this race especially.
Malaysia Women Marathon will always be special in my life, because this is where I ran my 1st 42km.
I enjoyed the run nonetheless, despite the pain and mental breakdown but thats the whole bittersweet and uniqueness of running a marathon.

And i'm glad, i took the journey.
:)

Ive been missing

...to write the FMV experience.
Adoi. Asyik bertangguh2 and caught up with workloads, uat sessions and whatnots terus tak tertulis.

Anyways, next week start tapering for... my 2nd FM!!
Mueheheheeeeeee tungguuuu (semoga tak berjanggut LOL)

Akhir kata, nah aku bagi gambar recycle dari instagram.

Hantu oh hantu

Selamat hari mengundi uols.
Dah calit ink kat tangan dah?
Dah try test cuci and scrub tangan dah?
Kekal ke tak kekal?
;P

Oh well, to be honest, pasal dakwat aku ni aku so-and-so je, takdelah beria nak try basuh cuci and buat eksperimen kekekalan dakwatnya tu.
aku cuma amik kisah pasal pengundi2 warganegara asing yang sama2 menjalankan tanggungjawab mengundi harini.
Macam kita kita ni.
Kita ni memang sah dan sohih lahir dan dibesarkan kat negaraku terchenta malaysia.
Tapi yang warga2 asing ni, datang dari negara lain, masuk ke negara kita dan eh, pergi mengundi juga?!!
Ada IC katanya kan, mestilah menjalankan tanggungjawab. *ini sarkastik lah!!*
Seriously, that scenarios really irks me up to the max.
Memang lahanat lah siapa yang menjadi dalang di sebalik konspirasi ni. Siapa pun, tak kiralah dari parti BN atau PKR, siapa pun menjadi perancang, dan pelaksana tektik hina dan keji ini semoga diberikan pembalasan yang sewajarnya. Mungkin di dunia boleh selamat, tapi TIDAK MUNGKIN DI AKHIRAT KELAK.
Amin.

Aku sayang MALAYSIA.

The 18 weeks training

I did it.  Yes I did it. But that would have to wait in the next entry. I needed to jot down the most crucial thing before the 42km itself, THE TRAINING JOURNEY.

I started early December. Just a right after MWM committee announce unofficially in fb. Masa tu aku fikir, this is it. I'm going for my 1st full marathon.
I started to google for full marathon training, Kak lina and my sister suggested a few. And I chose from running.about.com.
18 weeks training plan for 1st marathon.
Perfect timing.

So I started with the regime. 1 cross training, 1 strength training, 4 runs ( 1 tempo, 1 interval, 1 long run, 1 recovery run). The training plan HERE.
Then MGH gave me the awesome Garmin 910XT. I love love love love it. It was the perfect gadget and absolutely helped me in my trainings.

Since MGH pun sama2 training untuk full marathon, we had a mutual agreement to take turn sending the kids and took care of the kids when one of us out for running. There were times when I decided to run after subuh prayer on working days, just because at that time it was raining seasons in the evening. Orang sibuk nak pergi kerja, aku berlari lagi keliling uniten tu :P.
My training grounds on weekdays di sekitar Uniten,  LSD with the Gaited Community runners at Lake Garden-Bukit Tunku-Hartamas, then later on aku decide untuk buat LSD sekitar Uniten dengan Bet, Malek, Ina, Masyu, Nat and a few others. 1 loop 8km, so kena buat a few loops untuk cukupkan mileage.
Cuma masalah lari dalam uniten ni adalah ancaman anjing liar. Dah lebih 3-4 kali aku kena 'sergah' dengan anjing liar ni. Makin lama makin banyak pulak so aku surrender buat LSD dalam uniten.
By that time, it was already march and ada banyak pula family matters setiap hujung minggu. I could not afford to miss my LSD and the mileage was increasing max to 32km; maka aku modify training schedule, i ran my LSD on Friday night. Most of the time, aku lari lone ranger. Nasib baiklah memang meriah suasana malam di Putrajaya, so takde lah aku takut sangat lsd kat sana.

Well, I gotta do what I needed to do.

Dalam training ni, my target was the mileage. Because I dont have a "basic" foundation for the 42km.
Months of December, I clocked close to 100km.
January was 164km.
February was 85km. 2 weeks of zero running due to Gunung Kinabalu Trip.
March I clocked 131km.

Tapi...... 18minggu tu memang tempoh yang lama. I have been through several injuries along the way.
Shin splint, lower back pain, chaffings, runners stitch and quadriceps muscle pull that forced me to rest from running a few days.
Although i must admit, I only follow about 70% of the plans, mostly i skipped the cross training and strength training, I only concentrate on runnings, and i had to deal with the effect.
Apart from the injury, I developed an injury to my mood  starting at week15 and the ultimatum at week 16.
I had no mood to run, in fact, I hated it. My body was so exhausted, I had trouble sleeping, I had trouble waking up every morning, i was moody all the time. During that time, I wanted to get the FMV done. NOW!!
Totally lemau and demotivated.
Luckily I had nice and supportive circles of friends and motivator. They understand what i've been through and I felt so relieved.
But I suffered the lemau feelings until week18!!
Bila dapat email notification racepack collection baru lah macam kena simbah air kat muka. Nervous started to kick in. It was final and taper week anyway.
Then out if nowhere, hari Khamis 4/4 masa tengah driving back home, tetiba terasa rindu sangat nak lari long run. Sesungguhnya aku rasa gembira sangat berperasaan rindu macam tu. I knew that the lemau feelings were gone!!!

Then came Friday, the collection racepack day. I took a day's off and went to iCity to collect the racekit and of course, to meet the running legend : Kathrine Switzer!

All set to go.
Im ready to make history.

P/S: can search my instapics (#18weekstrainingplan) and my dailymiles for the training records.