Hari Raya Runs

There was the long weekend holidays, from Saturday to Tuesday, but it did not look like holidays for me since I had a bad sickness one week before and I began to panic how off track I was to the Green Run that would be happening on 26-August (that's this coming Sunday).

Normally people rest during this holidays but I became restless, with the runs to put in to handle the Green Run. Saturday I had to wake up at 4am, prep myself and got to Penang Botanical Garden fruit stall to join Cari Runners LSD. Only 4 turned up and it did not go well with me. The pacemaker or the leading runner sped off in the middle of nowhere and I had to run alone without knowing where was I heading to.

Second, at some part of the route, it was total darkness, no street lights, only managed to see the route when there was car coming. In seconds, I was back in total darkness. Not sure how close I was to the cliff as there was no barrier at some part of the route, I had to run according to the double line at the middle of the road.

After enduring the dark part of the route, I had to ask an uncle at one hawker center where is the main road????? I did not know where I was, I simply had to run there and head back to take my cars. Luckily Hugo got hold of me, else I'd be running back alone, because I was not happy with the way it was done. Perhaps, that's lack of experience being the pacemaker.

Anyhow, I waited and let the rest of the group rejoined and I completed the 20+km with some walking at the end.

I was up quite early in the morning on Sunday too, but no run, I forgot what I did. In the evening, Wifey and I went to Mengkuang and we did 3km together, first time she entered the jungle part of Mengkuang, there was some elevations and she was beaten but I had to picked her up and going again.

That's wifey run and more like a warming up workout. I threw in one tempo 5k to assess my condition and I felt good that I could finish the distance, with some walking + hydration time. There got me 8km for the days.

I was following the Facebook event organized by Steven Heng, the Raya LSD. I clicked to join the night before the event and finally they rescheduled it, but Steven told me that he was going to do a 10k at Mengkuang... you know what? I joined him although the body was showing some sign of fatigue.

At 5am, I woke up.... no... I dragged myself up to join Steve at Mengkuang. At first, he was leading the pace with 6:15 but gradually we were increasing the pace. We were just running at the red bridge area, I guess back and forth for 5 times means 2.2km x 5 = ~11km. Steven was tired after the 9km and I left him and picked up my pace to finished the final 2km with 4:40 pace. Felt good, the air was cool and I felt great.

Tuesday, I had to wake up at 5am again to attend the Raya Hill Repeat at Pulau Aman Jetty. I did not want to push too hard on myself. I used the interval training in my 405. I set run for 1km (slightly more than the 800m for the up and down of Pulau Aman jetty hill) and rest for 3 minutes. It went well and managed to clocked in 9.5km.

Actually it was not a huge achievement in term of mileage but I am happy with the commitment that I have shown. I really want to do well, in Green Run and the ultimate PBIM 2012. Hopefully I am ready to face the 21k, 21k, 42k and 42k in the coming 4 weeks.

May the force be with me.

=woohoo=

Car Broke Down (Old Story)

I have one question:

Is it normal that a car broke down on the road when you are driving it?


For me, it is not. It is a sign of carelessness or ignorance. Car, as you know (if you don't), needs regular maintenance, hence it is recommended that you send your car to the workshop to be checked or repair/replace if necessary. Another fancy phrase is preventive maintenance, which means you want to prevent unexpected things happen during the operation.

I always think that those car drives with cars that broke down on the Penang Bridge or any major roads are very irresponsible. They are irresponsible because they do not check the water level in the radiator regularly, they did not change the tyres when necessary, they did not do this laaa and that laa.... the consequence? The car break down, but preventive maintenance should be done beforehand.

30 days ago, my belief was struck badly when my own car broke down at the middle of one busy road - Jelutong Expressway, right at the middle when I was waiting at the traffic light. The engine just died on me, I tried to reignite the automobile but failed. Argh... I knew that if those people that I 'accused' before must be laughing at me now. Shit... I did not want to jam up the whole road just because of my car (People will curse me).

The water that I filled 1 week ago was not found when I open the car bonnet. Surprisingly, which mean either it dried up or leaked out, but it was not time for troubleshooting, but fire fighting. I waited for a while for the engine to cool down, then I had to fill several 1.5L of water into the radiator. Weird, why need so much? I could not think much. I just wanted to drive my car away.

After refilling the water, the car could be started and I drove it away immediately to my destination - Loh Guan Lye Specialist. I parked my car there and took a peek beneath the car. I could hear water dripping sound, the leakage was so bad. However, I decided to do my stuff first before dealing with this car later.

After business done. I wanted to drove my car home back to mainland but it was impossible judging from the leakage severity. I don't know what was wrong but I knew I could not get home. I drove it along the way and checked for a workshop. Went to a Mercedes one, they did not accept my car and turned me away to the opposite workshop.

I had to let my car sleep there and I went home taking ferry and Rapid Penang.

After diagnosis, it was a rubber plastic elbow already aged and damaged. Besides, the radiator fan's switch was not working properly. Replaced with a new elbow and second hand radiator fan. RM255 gone.

-.-

SICK - As A Record

Argh... it has been a while and I was beaten again, by the virus. I'm having really bad fever on the 4th and 5th day in Bali (11-12 Aug), then followed by the sore throat.

I'm not sure what is the cause of the illness but it is definitely not something fun, not something that anyone wants to get through. I was not be able to eat properly since day 1 I was sick, I dropped 2 kg in 2 days.

Within this 4 days, I ate the least food since the day that I know I'm a big eater.

Still don't know what is the root cause but I suspect either one or combination of 2 or more:

• Heat stroke due to not drinking enough water.
• Too much beer and mixing? (Bintang + San Miguel + Lemonade Vodka?)
• The place that I stay is not clean. (Don't say a thing about this, simply speculation)
• Too much Balinese food?
• Just have to hit after a long sick-free period (2 years+, I did not even know when was the last time I suffered so badly???!!)

Anyway, I have been nursing this myself, cooling down myself with towel and taking Panadols, until I touched down in Penang and went to see a doctor.

By that time, not much heat, but sorethroat was really bad and still bad.

Just need to record this. I need to take care of myself more, even though I could be a stronger and healthier athlete now, but still viruses are not something that you want to mess with.

Lagging behind in my training plan already... not a good thing. 2 weeks to 4 weeks back to back 21k, 21k, 42k, 42k....ahhhhhh.... how?

Argh... I miss all the delicious Penang hawker food.

=GET WELL SOON=

Race Report - Hatyai Nature Run 2012

Event: Hatyai Nature Run 2012
Date: 05 August 2012
Location: University of Prince of Songkla, Hatyai
Distance: 21 km (20.74 km)
Bib No.: 29 0012
Registration Fee: 300 Baht or ~RM30 (Men 18-29)
Gears: Brooks Pure Connect, Garmin Forerunner 405
Starting Time: 5.50am (Thailand Time)
Running Time: 01:47:35
Pace: 5:11 min/km

***** Photos uploaded at 201208072342.

After Hatyai International Marathon at the end of May, soon, it is already August and we were going to Hatyai again, this time for Nature Run. We were carpooling, Miow Chin was the driver, with her bigger car, another 3 gentlemen can really sit comfortably inside the car. By the way, it was really a well-kept car, no stinky perspiration odour, like mine, which is typically a sportsman's car :P

Wifey sent me to Dan's place and we went for Hokkien Mee breakfast before departing. Inside the car, although I was sleepy but I did not manage to close my eyes, but I was enjoying listening to story telling from Miow Chin and Steven. Ewe Cheong was quite quiet too. I did not look at the the time until we reach the boarder. It was a smooth check in compared to the last school holiday check in. Bad... very bad.

As soon as we crossed the boarder, we stopped by at the McDonald to buy the Samurai Burger (not halal). The taste was amazing, I wanted more but we still had much food waiting for us at Hatyai.

We checked in to the corporate hotel, BeMyGuest hostel, according to Steven because they had actually stayed there for a number of years, continuously. Wow... they even said the price rose from 400 Baht to 450, 500, 550 and now 600 Baht. It was an acceptable rate, given the free wifi, clean room, clean linens, free towels, a small fridge and close to the happening place.

Another crew (Sam, KL Chew and Felix) were coming by train and we waited for time a while before checking in. Then, we went to University of Prince of Songkla for registration. I did not registered online so I had to fill in the form for submission. By the time I registered, I was the 12 in my age category. I paid 300 Baht for it and went to collect the vest. It was good that option was given to choose between a vest or shirt. I prefer vest, more like a runner. (Wifey does not want me to wear those 'colourful' running Tee for outing with her). S size for me, a little bit short but good in term of fitting.

Later we had some drinks out there, free ice cold water was served, not only water, you can choose either Coke or other colourful soft drinks. (Why no Malaysia event is doing that? Profit oriented?) We put on the vest and had crazy time on the stage, Dan Low even became the one day champion. After that, shopping again at the 'cheap' sports attire counters. Did not buy anything because I already bought 1,2,3 during Hatyai Marathon and another 1,2,3 during Brooks clearance and another 1,2 one week later. Plus my own shorts, I have total 11 running shorts :P OMG....

Then, we went for lunch at Payang. I've never been there before, heard that it was renovated and significantly smaller than previous one. The real rubber estate is replaced with rubber estate painting on the wall. We had tu-kah, tomyam, green curry and other nice food there. Considered it carbo loading. After that, it was Tesco time.

I was helping wifey to look for spray sun block but not many choices, but managed to grab some hydration salt (electrolyte) for myself, 5 Baht for one packet, I bought 10 packets from 3 different brands for trial purpose. Bought shampoo for wifey, quite cheap, 170 Baht for a 900ml Sunsilk (pink colour) shampoo, I think we need to pay RM24 in Malaysia for it. Bought 2 packets of tomyam instant noodles for wifey too.

Wow... paid at the counter then we moved to Gelate, a place for cheap, relatively cheap Gelato. Since the stomach still full, I could only have 2 scoops, but there were so many choices, all seems very tasty. After testing a couple that I would like to try, not really ngam my taste, I picked strawberry and honey. The strawberry gelato was so sour but still below my threshold, I need the Vitamin C, I doubt there was much inside. The honey one is very 'honey', good carbo loading stuff :P

 

 

 

The weather was damn hot, cannot tahan and went back to hostel to take a cold shower and rest for a while. Watching Olympic game (Women triathlon) on the TV for a while before napping. Then, we went for night market walk already. Not very happening, just walk walk, look see look see. A little tired then balik tidok, I think it was 9 something Thailand time.

Alarm set off at 4am in the morning. I woke up and prepare myself, eating the banana cake that I had bought from Tesco, I wonder why I could not eat much in the morning, else I could have more energy during the run? I'm not sure but I need energy. Apply some counterpain on the ankles where it hurt a few day before, stop running though since last Thursday.

Put on the green vest, compression shorts, lao beh stocking (hopefully I can get a few new pairs after Green Run, but I need to do 1:43 or better) and Brooks Pure Connect. Took along my Nathan Trek with was filled with 600ml water + 2 packet of electrolyte, with the hope to kill the cramps. The next thing, we were on the starting line. Met Woei Jye, Kenny, KFC and other Cari Runners. Took a few photos and I took my can of Nescafe, just needed a kick (Not sure whether it kicked..... me).

Did some stretching, telling myself, no cramp, no cramp... please because I was told that this was a hilly route. After wishing those around me good luck, after the countdown from the microphone, all the participants were let loose. I was telling myself to stick to the race plan but it was quite difficult because there was already a slope 300m away. I held my nerve, repeatedly told myself to slow down, although I saw KFC and Hugo (WJ's idol) overtook me.

Race plan was 5:10 to 5:15 but I was a little bit faster than that in the first km. Kenny was biting me, I could see his serious face when he overtook me at the first water station. So, I quickly chased back and soon it was a mild elevations stretch, I was be able to overtake Kenny and lead the way with controlled speed, but maybe it was the pressure, the pace was getting faster in km-2 onwards before leading to the rubber estate.

I was focusing a lot on my rhythm, posture and cadence, but I was not looking at my heart rate (HR) as that could be distracting. It was all flat until km-5, which leads us into the rubber estate, that was where the nightmare started, first elevation was quite mild, still be able to run comfortably, but I saw many runners actually running faster.

Into km-6, it was a 80m continuous elevation, I slowed down, because I know that I could not waste my energy here, focus on arm swing, cadence and breathing rhythm, but I could hear that Kenny who was following me at 1-2 meter away breathing heavily. That's not a good sign, but I did not have enough energy to tell him, it was inappropriate to do that too because he could think I wanted to slow him down for my good. So, focus on my race. Then, it was a downhill from 115m to 25m. I just paid attention to my ankle and landing, used the gravity at the same time caution not to injure myself.

The pace was good, sub 4:30 pace and made the U-turn. When the race route has any U-turn, it simply means that everything that you feel good previously will be bad, and anything bad could become good. That was exactly was happened. The route that I was cruising at 4:30 pace was killing me, I could feel that the cramp is building up, I did not want to get injured, so I chose to walk. This was not my day, not my PB day. At the same time, I told myself I needed to gain back whatever I lost during up, in the down.

The fatigue muscles were screaming for help, I could not do anything than just supplying them with the electrolyte that I brought with me. Walked patiently. During the down, I was flying again with sub5:00 pace to the exit of the rubber estate.

At that corner, I was overtaken my Dr.Tham, he was like flying. I was tired, I could only see him opening the gap, my pace drop to 5:20. That was km-15.

My mental power was weak, I was like not giving all I had, because I knew that PB was not possible and I could not risk myself getting injured again. I could only run with the pace 5:30 at km-16 and I had to stop because I felt the muscles were not doing well. I could see KFC in front by 200m, but it was too far for me to chase. At the end, I ran and stopped, ran and stopped to ease of the 'almost cramp' feel on my right tight.

I saw runners passing me with ease but I could not do anything, so helpless. The sun was up there shining brightly and I was hoping I could reach the finishing point soon. Entering the university and knowing that I'd lose nothing, I walked again, until Ewe Cheong ran past me and encouraged me to finish it. I ran until the end and posing for Dr.Tham's camera :P

Stopped my Garmin Forerunner 405 and it showed 1:47:35 for a distance of 20.74km. Phew... just glad that I could finish the race in one piece.

Race Summary:

• It was a good achievement (I simply have to encourage myself on this) compared to my PB @ PJ Dawn, given my mental strength and willpower were weak.
• I was doing quite well until the U-turn going up the slope, had to stop due to fatigue muscles. I could do better if I did not walk that much.
• Must try to stop at the first few water stations, be it 10 or 30 seconds, it could have the cumulative effect on the overall performance.
• Should bring along powergel (for standby purpose) can take whenever that's necessary.

Garmin Data: http://connect.garmin.com/activity/206883369

Race Review:

Pros:

• Free drinks during registration and given options to choose running vest or running tees.
• A very challenging route with elevations. Nice view when entering the rubber estate, feel so good running at the middle of the route.
• Beautiful gold medals for all finishers.
• Free drinks and food at the finishing area.

Cons:

• No isotonic drinks along the routes. Must be able to drag yourself thru the 21k or bring your own supplements.
• No cheering supporters :(

I'll need to modify my own training plan to add on more hill running and tempo rather than running on flat ground. Another check point at Green Run.

Need to survive Green Run, SP Half Marathon, River Jungle Marathon and Taiping International Marathon. Wow.... it is scary.

=woohoo=

Garmin FR 405 has recovered~!

My Garmin Forerunner 405 has gone crazy since the first detection on 19-July 2012, the best pace has gone crazy like I was literally reach 0 to 1km point in, say 0:01 to 0:05 min/km pace. Better than Superman pace.

I did many thing in between which did not help.

I went to Nature Run with it and surprisingly, when I was back later, the data shown is normal (accuracy is too difficult to proof).

The baby must be craving for a travel and tomyam. Now that it is good and kicking, I'll load more on you :P :P

Only 2 data points, I'll see how is it after 1 or 2 weeks.

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Masino: Welcome to LIVE CHAT @ AirAsia! Each chat session lasts for 10 minutes. Please keep your questions reasonably brief and include your FULL NAME, MOBILE NUMBER and USER ID (email address) of AirAsia member account. Thank you for your cooperation.

CS: Hello...
CS: my name is TAN CHOON SHIH, mobile number 6012-4710686 and email is choonshih@hotmail.com.

Masino: Hi CS

Masino: Thanks for the info

Masino: how may I assist you

CS: My flight from Kuala Lumpur to Penang is affected due to the rescheduling of Denpasae to Kuala Lumpur flight. I would like to reschedule the KL-PEN flight to match the Denpasar-KL flight.

Masino: May I have the booking number please ?

CS: NYK15A and PCSU9X
CS: PCSU9X is affected after the flight NYK15A has been rescheduled by AirAsia.

Masino: CS

Masino: thanks for waiting

Masino: my apologize for the inconvenience

Masino: please write in to our e-form

Masino: http://www.airasia.com/my/en/faqdetailsform.html

Masino: as our team will soon keep in touch with you

CS: No problem. I have written to the email and I was told to come back to AirAsia 2 weeks before departure.
CS: However, I sent another email but I only will get the respond after 5 working days, but I'm flying next Wednesday.
CS: This is not acceptable and I need a solution immediately so that I can have a piece mind during my honeymoon in Bali.
CS: Hi, Masino. I'm expecting a reasonable solution from AirAsia, which is to get me a connecting flight that can match my return flight from Bali.

Masino: we are not able to assist you with the flight from our end - from this channel

CS: But there is no other channels that I could use, as there is no telephone helpline available in Malaysia to serve customer like me, who is not in the category of AirAsia X premium customers.

Masino: CS

Masino: do you have the case number

Masino: of your email address

CS: If there is a immediate Malaysia phone call that I can make to solve my problem immediately, please give me now.
CS: CAS-2258867-KGGCYZ CRM:0917289‏
CS: I have got the email reply on 25-June-2012.
Masino: What was the replied content
CS: Hold a minute, let me copy and paste.
CS: Dear Choon Shih Tan, Thank you for your email to our Customer Care.In response to your email, please accept our sincere apologies for the inconvenience caused by this schedule changed.We would like to inform you that in the event AirAsia flight is retime more than 5 hours, guest has 2 options to protect their investment as follows: Guest can be transferred to the earlier or next available AirAsia flight within 2weeks from the original flight retime, without any additional charges(if any) or,*1time move flightCancel the flight and fare value of the flight can be retained in a credit shell with AirAsia for future travel.
CS: Above option only valid for the affected flight.*Credit Shell is a credit account with the amount of your money that you use for your previous reservation. You can use a credit shell to buy another AirAsia’s ticket, and the maximum validity of the usage is 90 days (booking period), counted since Credit Shell created. However, your actual travel dates can be after the expiry date as long as our schedule is out.Kindly contact our Call Centre or visit our Sales Office to make flight changes and please visit this link http://www.airasia.com/my/en/contactus.html for contact information or you may write to us through E-Form and kindly visit this link http://www.airasia.com/my/en/faqdetailsform.html for E-Form with furnish more details information of flight number and time schedule with provide specified flight details you prefer for your comfortable trip, and also your available phone number.Should you need a fast respond to your enquiries in future please follow us at our NEW twitter account askairasia (http://www.twitter.com/AskAirAsia) or visit our web Live Chat (http://www.airasia.com/my/en/livechat.html?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=howdoi&utm_campaign=livechat).Once again please accept our apologies for the inconvenience.I hope this will not deter you from travelling with Air asia in the future and thank you for taking the time to contact us.Kind Regards,Reza FCustomer Care

Masino: CS

Masino: will sent this info to the team

Masino: and get the team to reply back to you

Masino: and will advise the Pre-Flight Team to contact you

Masino: thank you

Masino: Thank you for your chat. Feel free to contact us again.

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I did not cut a single word from the conversation above and it was near to perfect, just without the timestamp, else you would know how long I have waited in the line. If I remember correctly, I was queuing from 2:28pm and by the time I was served, it was already 6:25pm, maybe.

Please divide the total time spent vs the total number of customer served. That ratio could be a CtS (Critical to Satisfaction) for all other AirAsia customers.

My problem was not solved as your can read from the conversation but my problem was escalated to the correct team and I received a phone call 30 minutes after my conversation ended. It was from Indonesia.

Problem is solved now and I can have a piece mind during my off day at Bali.

==woohoo==

AirAsia Live Chat Assistance SUCKS

Wow, I did not realize that the customer service helpline of AirAsia in Malaysia was removed until I faced some problem with my flight schedule. An exclusive phone number is still there to service those prime customer a.k.a. AirAsia X Premium seat customers. What a discrimination...~!!!!

Ok, since they removed the helpline, they have put in the Live Chat Assistant, which we could settle our problems ( I doubt it).

Since AA reschedule one of my flight and it has affected my connecting flight home, so I need to reschedule the flight or I might need to get home by any other means. I was optimistic. I signed in using my email and password, named myself and waited patiently for help.

I was the 16th in the queue, long but I expect to be served within 1 hour. (Wrong expectation on wrong party) but after 3 hours waiting, I was down to number 3 in the queue. What the hell????? 3 hours to service 12 customers? How many counters you have? How many problems you have? Shit.... I guess it was all down to 1 operator.

I cannot wait further, so I closed the window.

I was pissed off. I posted on AirAsia facebook page and what I get is 'Thank you for your feedback. We will feedback to the relevant party. Cheers.'

Shit... my problem is not solved, I was asked to 'Cheers'?

= sucks =