Tuesday, November 22, 2011

DNS Tapi Pulang Modal.

Ha. Didn't think there'll be a race report, kan?
Yes, as some of you have read in FB, I couldn't quite make it to PBIM.
The night before the last day of school, my son complained that he had a stomach ache and felt nauseous. I was quite sure it wasn't food poisoning as he ate the same thing as the rest of us did and we were all fine.
Well, he started vomiting that night, and continued to feel bad the next morning. He couldn't stomach in anything solid for the rest of the day but felt fine on Saturday.

Manala nak tau it was actually the stomach flu and it was contagious. After my race that Saturday morning (tell you about that later), I had  a nap, konon nak get some snooze before PBIM. It was funny that I tossed and turned for  ages before falling asleep because everyone who knows me close , knows that I fall asleep easily. Lepas tu after an hour of napping, bangun je , pening nye mak ai. And suddenly I felt sick.
I tried to brush it off. Said to my WW that it's probably something bad I ate at the food fair that morning. By 7.00 pm I was vomiting my breakfast and lunch and felt crappy but I still had my hopes high. We thought that by 10:30 pm, if I felt a bit okay, we'll head out to Penang and see how it goes from there. But after staring blankly at my McDonalds dinner, and feeling nauseated after a cup of sundae, the only thing that I can force myself to eat that night, I made a decision to abandon the thought of racing altogether.
Macam suicide je pon kalau pegi. Not much fluids in my body. Carbo-loading jadi more like carbo-dumping. It'll be like me running on empty.
Kang tak pepasal ada orang bergolek atas jambatan. Hodohnya pemandangan.

So racing plans aborted.,balik rumah terus tengok bola Indon lawan Vietnam. Pastu went to bed, and woke up at 2 ish with tummy cramps and I thanked God Almighty for giving me some common sense.

Oh ye, this is supposed to be a race report jugak kan?
Okay so on Saturday I raced for my department in Larian Kesihatan Perak. It's a 5K race held once in every 2 years and the participants are solely KKM staff from all over Perak.
Aku masuk suka-suka je. Boss aku suruh masuk  untuk menang.
Aku pikir, kalau tak menang pun takpe sebab the coming Monday tu aku cuti, so takdela dia nak membebel. Heh heh.

Gun-off bajet race kecik pukul 8:15 am. Cuaca nasib baik ok. Tak panas, tak mendung, sejukk je. Participants tak ramai, dalam 100 orang. Yang paling best apa tau, korang? Yang paling best my family was there to support me. Nothing beats standing at the starting line with your spouse and children screaming words of encouragements at the sidelines. Baru semangat nak lari.
Majlis tajaan gomen takkan lengkap tanpa senbamrobik dan skirting bunga raya

My main rival (cheeeewaaaahhhhh) during the race was one particular girl from Hospital Teluk Intan, a KKM state runner called Anu. Now, I've been in 2 races with her prior this race and twice I fell to second place. But don't get me wrong, it's totally  friendly rivalry.We're good friends and  for 2 years, she's been trying to get me to try out for her team. ( macamla aku layak)
Tahun ni, jeng jeng jeng, to her dismay (because she loves a good competition),she saw that I'm in a different category.Yaa , tuan-tuan dan puan-puan, saya finally masuk kategori Senior Women..huhu. And she, being only 27 is in the Women Open.
Anu dan err..pakcik enterprem kat belakang

Satu lagi benda best , this year's run is held at Taman Tasik Taiping. So route yang agak familiar. Like I said, lepas gun-off maka  larilah kami. Me and Anu initially paced each other and had a bit of a conversation about races at the first 500m, pastu seperti biasa she eased her way in front dan saya seperti biasa malas nak kejar awal-awal , biarkan je sebab saya takut kepancitan
Sepanjang race, I noticed Anu asyik pandang belakang to me je, I'm not sure whether to see  if I was okay or to see whether I was close enough to overtake her. At some point when she glanced back, I gestured for her to go on ahead sebab perut ku senak. Sakit jugak wo lari laju  (sket dari biasa) and trying to maintain it for 5K, but I remembered WW said that a 5-10K race is supposed to hurt so I pujuk diri je.

Seperti biasa dalam 500 m nak abis baru teringat nak summon turbo tapi bila Anu nampak aku dah makin dekat, dia pun pasang turbo. Dan..seperti biasa, I lost to her by 10 seconds kot. Tapi sebab kami different categories, dia dapat nombo satu dan saya juge dapat nombo satu..hehe.
Women Open leader kat depan. Senior menyusul di belakang sana nun. Maklumla, senior..

Best tak? Team Chiam and Adik tukang sorak.

Deme ni senyum sebab lega akhirnya kami dah sampai.

Yang bestnya bila tengok Garmin, I got my PB in 5K 27:35. For you guys out there mungkin tak laju benor, but for me kira okla tu (by my standards la) Huhu. Dan at her defence, sebab korang mesti pikir , takkan KKM state runner standard 5K 27 mins je kot. I truly felt that she held back and wasn't running her full potential

Yang tak syoknya bila dapat placing kena tunggu dapat hadiah, lamanyaa . Biasala, tunggu all the formalities and ucapan pembukaan. Katanya majlis serah hadiah pukul 9:30, alih-alih nak dekat 11 lebih diberinya hadiah lepas VVIPs makan-makan. Hadoi. The kids were getting a bit cranky but lepas dapat hamper saiz dinosor, depa happy balik. Dapat la jugak a bit cash money, pulang la jugak modal tak pi PBIM..alhamdulillah..hurhur.

Ada jugak Walkathon held at the same time as the larian in a different location.

Budak PLKN pun dipaksarela  dijemput masuk. Huish macam berpiket pun ada.

Itu je la kot. Now for that one week holiday..

14 comments:

  1. Memang patut Kj name ur blog as podium doc Julin in my blog list :) in my books terror laju tuuu ..congrats ..at least u got one out of two ..I have been missing all thru out this year !! Keep it up :) Glad u decided not to run PBIM .. Next year Ada lagi :)

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  2. Baper medal dpt kali ni? keskeskes

    Perut mcm mana? All better now?

    Bestnya ada sokongan family. Siap sorak2 along the way. :)

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  3. Congrats!lepas ni boss sure canang staff dia dpt no 1.hehehe ..tapi bab pom pom kids tu yg terharu ."Emak kite lari dapat no 1 tau!".

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  4. Sah ler kalau macam ni tak lari PBIM pun masih berbaloi. Tahun depan nak masuk team KKM lah, jadi pomen kerusi roda pun jadik lah :]

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  5. Kongrets! Agree with DM, berbaloi baloi. Team Chiam and Adik tukang sorak tu mmg priceless!

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  6. no wonder x nampak org lari pakai tracksuit mase lari ari tu.. rupanya tak pegi.. :) xpe.. sometimes benda camni jadi, kita kena prioritize lah kan?

    oh.. ade eh stomach flu?

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  7. KJ: ala KJ, baru sekali dua. Tu pun kat race kecik2 je. Tapi alhamdulillah la. Hearing about all the glitches at this years PBIM, I'm quite glad tak run in my condition.
    Lina: Unfortunately, takdak medal pon diberi. Duit pun akan di bank in kemudian..hurhur. Perut okay now, in fact asyik makan je dalam seminggu ni. Adoi
    Gerb: Hehe diorang lagi best mana menang dapat hamper. Balik rumah dok kaji je hamper tu.

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  8. Diket: DM kalau masuk team KKM , depa buat kenduri pulut kuning punyalah. Syukur akhirnya dapat orang laju dalam team
    Zacky: Sangat best ada team sorak. End of the line, diorang sambut with cheers pastu cakap, "Mama. kami laparlah. Lama kami tunggu".
    cHE:Tu la, dah layout dah pon grey pants tu atas katil. Alih-alih bila tak jadik PBIM, pakai tido je la, lepas geram.

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  9. saya sokong senior veteran! kalau pakai seluar kelabu, konfem ang dah potong anu LOL

    (kak pah masih mencari inspirasi utk buat report pbim ni, belum sampai seru daaa)

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  10. KakPah: Haipp..serior baru..belum lagi veteran..kehkeh. Suar kelabu taim tu save utk PBIM konon. Takpa la, lenkali bleh kuar secret weapon. Nanti kami belikan Kak Pah selai jugak. Bleh kita matching-matching.

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  11. I pun nak matching seluar kelabu gaks! Just got back from Clinic and the doc told me to make sure wear long pants when I do my morning run now. Lutut very the arthritic, katanya. huhuhu

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  12. Lina: This doc says that long pants are also good untuk avoid tan lines berbelang belang. Boleh, boleh buat meniaga nih.

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  13. yay, last!
    ni kira mcm my pace kalau saya turut serta dlm larian hari tu. lol!

    tahniah... err, puan senior!

    p/s: post tak lengkap tanpa gambar hamper :D

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  14. zarin, hang memang juara. Tapi percayalah, kalau masuk larian ni, pasti hang akan dpat placing podium punya.
    Ala, dah tangkap dah gambaq hamper, pastu cam hampeh.

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