Cross Country in the City 2011

we're a bunch of happening runners!

This is my first race in the cross country event. I collected the race bib on Saturday  at around 12ish because i'm pretty sure jalan confirm smooth flowing  (assuming many people is on their long weekend break away from KL).  Oh boy I was wrong. I should have come collect it on Friday or seek help from friends  to collect on my behalf. Manalah nak tahu its school replacement day jadinya i was stuck on a very bad traffic heading towards Wisma OCM from Stadium Merdeka. Sampai Wisma OCM jangan haraplah nak parking free kat luar (memang tak ada) so I have no choice but to parked my car inside OCM's and was charged RM5 untuk kejadian mengambil race kit yang tak sampai 15 minit itu. Dang! Mahal nak mampos!

Now cerita masa race day. Woke up pretty early on Sunday and reached Padang Merbuk at around 6.40am. Lucky me there are plenty of parking space available. pheuwww jimat tenaga tak perlu jalan jauh-jauh. Susah jugak takde Miss E ni (takde orang nak dikerahkan amik tu, amik ni, pegang tu, pegang ni muahaahaa). Dropped the reporting card and had a good chat with the usual kaki lariks. The FTAAA opted to brief us in a very casual way. very-very casual indeed. Macam ala-ala menyanyi di pentas Hiburan Minggu Ini lol. But anyway, we were too busy camwhoring and didn't even bother to pay attention to the briefing at all. Nasiblah karang orang lari aku follow je lee... takkan mungkin jadi orang nombor 1 kat depan pun ahaks ;)

Truth is, I am so freaking nervous. With no proper shoes & trail training haruslah nervous wey.  We were flagged off at 7.55am, 5 minutes later than the Men's Open Category.  Start off with hilly track. I was doing pretty good here. Then into the jungle. Aiyo Kantoi Big Time! I need to learn the art of memintas orang dalam hutan. Nasib baik ada Ruby, terus follow ini orang potong memotong. Out of the trails, melepasi lumpur and up to grassy hill. Adoi jenuh nak panjat. Made a quick stop at first water station. Masa ni dah rasa agak capek bangat but i just continue running very slowly into the Lake Garden. Then jrennnng..... its the hill. The steepest hill ever. At this point I'm already too tired to run the evil hill so i walked.  Siap dengan tangan di pinggang muahaahaa. Giler makcik pancit weyyy!!! 

Trying to pick-up my momentum  after the evil hill but it was hard as we're still running up & down in Lake Garden. Lepas je entrance Lake Garden, yeay no more hilly course, straight to Padang Merbuk. Luckily nampak lagi Cik Ruby di depan, fuhh takdelah ketinggalan jauh sangat. Actually dari first water station i akan memastikan kelibat Ruby sentiasa kelihatan. Nak kejar tak larat den. Kalau tak nampak bayang dia confirm terus jalan sampai habis hehe. Thanks babe. Near finishing line, saw many familiar faces. Ijam with his camera (sibuk tangkap gambar amoi ka? hehe) and Razif dengan medal kat leher. Finally reached finishing line and was given a card for medal and certificate collection. Tengok card No 30. Yeay, dapat medal. Hey tak semua orang dapat medal tau, medal are given for top 50 of my category only. Yeay! Yeay! Yeay!

Collected my medal, certificate & dapat 1 blank form dari FTAAA officer. Tak kuasa nak tengok borang apalah kan, macam tak penting & terus pergi cari MILO. Sambil lepak-lepak dengan Geng Chap Ayam, biasalah gossip-gossip sambil eksen dengan medal sebab  SABRI  ada yang tak dapat medal. Pastu Mahi tanya "dapat borang kan Aini?". I nodded. "hurmmm kan semua dapat". Mahi quickly replied "no lah, Top 30 je dapat borang". Tergamam. Pastu apa lagi, kay-choh lahhhh. Gempak siut! Ray kata sape dapat borang akan kena panggil untuk SEA game selection. kah kah kah kah kah. Ingatkan Ray buat lawak, sekali bila baca blog dia dengan blog Diket, it was eventually true. The organizer has actually announced it during the morning briefing. Tulah sape suruh tak pay attention masa briefing, kalau tak boleh gelak sama-sama. Adoi cramp perut gelak :D

Overall I enjoyed the race very much & for a first timer like me, the course was challenging  and tough. But hurmmmm,  I think I've starting to like trail running hehe. Macam best pulak. So Ray, nak pergi FRIM bolehlah ajak saya yer (tapi jangan tinggalkan saya sorang-sorang kat belakang) ;p . 

Pelari tegar RBU: Diket, Ray &  Ijam

woot woot sexy kaki mereka ini *pheeewit*

ok nak lompat ke tak?

ok sab, ready 1, 2,3....

cittt, apsal kau punya gambar je yang jadi?

isi borang pencalonan ke Sukan SEA.. kelakar ok!

tak boleh berenggang dengan medal

Irina, Jasni & Ahmad

On a different note,  secara tak sengaja telah memalukan diri sendiri dengan Irina. So ini kejadian selepas ambil gambar di atas:

Me: Irina, siapakah lelaki yang ambil gambar dengan kita tadi?
Irina: Laa, kau tak kenal ke?
Me: Tak. Siapakah?
Irina: Laaa, tulah Ahmad Lamchanak. Lari laju tu wey, kalau event takde si Kenya, dia confirm menang.
Me: Rupanya Lamchanak tu betul-betul wujud la ni?
Irina: Yelah, apsal?
Me: Seriously, aku selalu dengar depa-depa sebut Lamchanak. Pastu dikaitkan dengan orang-orang yang berdesup. So aku ingat Lamchanak ialah kata nama khas yang direka oleh mereka-mereka ini untuk mereka yang Lari Menchanak-Chanak=Lari Berdesup.  Oh my God... seriously aku tak tahu orang ni rupanya betol-betol wujud *gelak berguling-guling*
Irina: Bengonglah kau ni.. hahahaha

5th medal for 2011

post-cross country treat ;p

So oklah, gotta go now. Nak basuh kasut. Till my next post, toodles!