Men's Health Running Bib

This morning I went to collect the Shape/Men's Health Night Run at Wisma OCM at 10.15am. Not many people at that time. Within a few minutes, I got my running bib and the running vest ady. I like the rbk running vest. The design is not bad.

The Athlete's Circle is opening a booth there selling mainly running accessories like SIP belts, hydration belts and few other stuffs. I bought this Nuun electrolyte or salt tablets for RM28.00 per tube (12 tablets). Very cheap! This is the promo price until this Friday (30 July 2010).

Absurd

Many of my friends and FB friends wishing me to get well soon from my knee pain. The funny thing about it was that there are few of them asking me why the heck I go running everyday! What da F... That was an absurd! Do you think I am a bionic-man mea...

To go out and run on a daily is too much for me lah. Maybe, someone out there can do that on a daily basis but definitely is NOT ME!

By the way, my knee feels much better as compared to two days ago. Still taking a rest from any legs exercise and not to walk too much as well. Tomorrow, I will go back to Osso again for follow up treatment.

And today, I'll go and collect the Shape Run kit at Wisma OCM.

Treatment at Chinese traditional & chiro specialist

This is the problem for an active person huh?.. who's like to do running or hiking.

I went to Osso Bone Care Specialist today to treat my knee. I'm having some pain on my left knee. I got this pain in April 2010 not during my running but when I was sitting FB-ing at home! Maybe due to a wrong sitting posture as I like to cross my legs when I am sitting on a chair (at home only).

The specialist said that I have some misalignment on my knee. There are few reasons that might have had contributed to my problem - due to running, descending from a hill/mountain in a fast pace and a wrong sitting posture.

The specialist then gave me the Chinese traditional massage and bone setting. The treatment takes about 45 minutes and costs me RM80.00. I have to go back for 2nd visit on this coming Thursday. I hope that my knee will be getting better soon.

Oh ya.. these are the food that I have to avoid for at least 2 weeks:

- Stout or liquor is ok

- Chinese or green tea is ok

Anyway, after the treatment, I went to eat fish head noodle at Ah Soon Restaurant near the Osso Bone Care Specialist. The fish head noodle has salted veggie >.<

Running - Week 2/16

My easy & long run log for week 2:

21 Jul - 10K

23 Jul - 13.1K

24 Jul - 15.3K

Total mileage for week 2 = 38.4K (Plan : 32.2K)

I think I'll will just ignore the hill and speed works at this moment. I just want to build up my long distance endurance by focusing on the easy and long run in my training for FM.

Oh ya, the pain on my left knee is back again.... Aarghh.... ! I think I run too much ady. I'll take a rest from running for the this whole week because I'll be running the Shape/Men's Health Night Run on 31 Jul. So, got to postpone my week 3 training plan.

I'll go and visit this bone specialist by this week - Osso Bone Care Sdn Bhd.

20.07.2010

Saw this pic from FB. Ya, I noe it's kinda old.

'I Killed Madonna Because I Have perfect Abs' =.=|||

This week is my 2nd week of marathon training plan and the plan is as follows:

- 9.6km Easy run

- 8.0km Hills run

- 14.5km Long run

I will start with the easy run this evening.

The other day, I was having 'tong shui' with a friend at K.T.Z, 1U after our earlier lunch at Sushi Zanmai. My Friend posted this question to me.

'Do you know what you want to do or let me re-phrase, what do you want in your life?'

I was like... Huh!?

hmm... my plan is to move out from FI and I hope my wish will come true soon :P

Running plan - Week 1 / 16

Running

I ran 15km on Friday's evening in 1:38:56 with a mixture of road & garden route. This is the first time I hit 15K by running alone. And without running on the road, I don't think I can run that far.

With that, I have completed my 1st week of marathon training beginner plan by completing a total of 32.8k (8.8K more than the required mileage... lol). Reason: I run mainly on a flat roads. I am supposed to do some hill running in my plan. But I couldn't find any suitable route nearby my residential for the hill training.

Hiking

I was asked by MY to bring her and her colleagues to Gn Datuk 2 weeks ago. I asked around and see anyone wanna join us for the hike. Finally, I have few ex-colleagues and running fren wanna join this hiking trip. However, MY turned up only with her BF -.-|||

We started the hike around 8.30am and along the way, I saw some insects like spiders, antz and... centipede?

We reached the peak around 10.45am with some slow hikers. The weather is good although a bit cloudy.

We descended around 12.00pm and reached the base around 1.15pm. We left the park at 2.15pm and went to Seremban town to eat the famous roasted or baked crabs at Seremban Seafood Village :)

And today, I have a little bit of stiffness on my calf muscle and I don't feel like doing anything :(

More from eBay

This is my latest purchase from eBay :D

It's a hard rubber case for Nokia E71 with one free screen protector. I bought it for USD2.99 with free shipping cost.

Nike+ Sensor Holder (Lace Lid)

After waited for 10 days, my Nike+ Lace Lid had finally arrived from US. I bought the sensor holder via eBay. It costs USD 8.07 a piece including the shipping cost.




I bought total 6 pieces - I need 2 pieces and the other 4 pieces, I bought on behalf of running friends. They wanted to buy the Nike+ SportBands too.




I woke up at 4.45am yesterday morning and wanted to go to Bukit Jalil recreation park to run at 6.30am and to test out the SportBand. After thinking about the traveling time and petrol cost, I have decided to go running at the usual place ie garden at Pusat Bandar Puchong.

I know that I am not supposed to run and I need to rest my toes after the Seremban Half Marathon 2010 because I have damaged my toes nail on both side of my feet. This is due to the NB running shoes... sighhhh.




Anyway, I managed to do a slow run at a comfortable pace and clocked 11.24km in 1:09:18. Here is the result derived from the Nike SportBand.


The Nike SportBand provides simple information like duration, km, pace and calories burn.

The stupid gomen has increased the petrol price from tomorrow. From now on, I should have just walk out from my home and go running instead of driving to the nearest garden/park to run. I am thinking to grab a bottle of water (will get a waist water pouch soon) and do my LSD at 6.00am tomorrow. But I am a bit worried about running alone early in the morning when the sky is still dark (am afraid of kena wallop). Let's see how.

New Camel Hiking Bag (48L)

My new Camel hiking bag with 48L has arrived yesterday. I redeemed this hiking using the UOB UNIRinggit Rewards program. Total points utilised: 63,000

I'm actually looking for a bigger hiking bag with a rain cover than my current ones. The ones that could bring out to a camping or backpacking trip that could last for 4 to 5 days.

As soon as I saw UOB gives out this hiking bag in their rewards program, I quickly made the redemption before they replace it with another product or raise the redemption points.

This Camel hiking bag comes with a rain cover, mini whistle and it was made from a water repellent material :)

The good news is that I have saved at least RM150 +/- ... i think... woohoooo....

SHM 2010 - Mission Completed

This is my best half marathon so far. I completed the Seremban Half Marathon 2010 in 2:00:59 with distance of 20.46 km (based on Garmin FR405 by Kho Kwang Leng). The average pace is 5:55 min / km. Even though the route has few slopes, I couldn't believe that I still can complete the run with such a good timing.

The complaints: There are only 3 water stations along the route and sometimes we have to run along a few roads with busy traffic :S

They served mineral water and Revive isotonic drinks. Luckily, I brought along one bottle of Gatorade Tiger drink. Else, runners can bring along some moneys too and stop at those kopitiam to buy drinks.

The reason why I signed up this race is because the finisher medal is sponsored by Royal Selangor Pewter... lol

I think every year they sponsor the same medal design with the engraving of the year and distance on the medal only. Below is the front view.

Back view.

GNC member

I went to GNC IOI outlet to sign up as a GNC VIP member to enjoy the 20% discount on store wide purchase except local and Powerbar products. The membership costs RM15.00 a year and I have to sign up for 2 years for new member.




With the new member card, I bought 6 packets of GU Energy Gel which costs RM8.00 per packet and saved RM9.60 :)

It's really worth paying RM30.00 for the member card for long term purchase.

Old mags & docs = $$$

After so long, finally I have dug out those old mags and docs to be thrown away from all over the house. Oops! Should be sold it to a recycling center.

Total weight : 60 kgs so far.

Hmm... how much I can get from the selling leh? Will go and dig out some more.

Pinky

After spending about 1 day (half each on yesterday and today... lol), finally I bought this pink color T-shirt (Forests @ RM39.90) at JJ, Sunway Pyramid. Gosh! Really not easy to find a nice and reasonable priced shirt at this time, non-sales period.

I need this pink color T-shirt as a 'jimui' shirt for my fren's wedding this coming Saturday. Woot! I'm one of the jimuis? >.<



Luckily, I'm not the only guy.. hehe..

Hmm.. I'm not sure the games plan. Probably, the girls need us to block the door to avoid the bridegroom and his 'heng dais' from coming in to get the bride.. wakaka...

Seremban Half Marathon 2010

Haha.. this sounds crazy to non-runners. They will never understand why we like to go running :p

Today, I went to Antah HealthCare Group at Jalan 19/1, Petaling Jaya to register the 2010 Seremban Half Marathon. The run is on 11 July 2010 ie this coming Sunday. Although the closing date for registration is on 4 July 2010, a fren of mine told me that runners still can do manual registration.

At first, I have no intention to sign up this run because I have a wedding dinner to attend on 10 July 2010. I'm afraid that I could not wakeup on time the next morning to travel down to Seremban... lol

But after I think about it, I can actually treat it as a LSD training. And I might have 1 or 2 frens wanna sign up this run too.. weeee... :P

For RM12.00 registration fee, the goodies (sample packs) are:

1. T-shirt instead of a running vest
2. Revive isotonic drink
3. Salonpas - pain relieving patch
4. Deep heating rub
5. Mentholatum Charcoal face wash
6. Top liquid detergent
7. Shokubutsu shower foam

I signed up the Cat B and there are 250 finisher medals for runners who complete the run within 2:30. Hmmm... hopefully, I am 1 of the 250 runners that can get the finisher medal.. haha..

Nike+ SportBand

Yeah... I finally bought myself a sport watch that can gives me info on my running distance, pace, time and calories burned.

I bought this Nike SportBand for RM229.00 from the Nike outlet at the Berjaya Time Square. The SportBand comes with a watch and a sensor.




There is only one color available for men ie Black/Red for Malaysia market. For women, the color is Grey/Pink. However, I went in to the Nike US website to check, there are other colors like yellow and blue. Anyway, I like this black/red colored SportBand.




I can't wait to wear this SportBand for my running but I don't have a Nike+ ready running shoes. So, I need to get a Nike+ adaptor kit for the sensor for non-Nike+ ready shoes. The problem is that Apple stores in Malaysia don't sell Nike+ adaptor kits unlike Apple stores in Singapore.




Well, I have bought the Nike+ adaptor from eBay for USD 8.07... haha.. I'm now waiting for the adaptor to arrive.