Adidas King of The Road

Event:Adidas King of The Road
Place:Sunway Pyramid/New Pantai Expressway
Date:2/10/2011
Time:6:45am
Distance:16.8km



**Picture taken outside the Sunway Hotel before the race.We were waiting for the race to start.Front row:L-R:Lau,Uu Ban,Teng.Back Row:L-R:Steve,Heng and myself.


I am glad that I took part in this race.Initially I wasn't sure since I needed to change my working schedule and I was having problems retrieving Heng's registration.The plan was to allow Heng to run using my bibs if I was unable to get any positive reply from Hivelocity Singapore.Finally Hivelocity managed to find Heng's race registration but his allocated vest size was wrong.He was given a L size vest for his S size frame.He did grumble about it.


We were early on Sunday morning.Lau decided to leave Seremban early to avoid some road closure ahead of the race.When we arrived at 5:30am,we met up with Uu Ban and his group in front of Sunway Hotel before headed to the starting point.


There was a big crowd,mostly young runners:teenagers or those in 20s.I couldn't see many "uncles or aunties".Probably we are the seniors on that day.


The race start at 6:45am.I was with the S2 runners at the starting line (except for Heng who like to go off by himself).We were joined by Eric,who at usual was very humble and modest of his running ability.


The route was a complete circle along the New Pantai Expressway.It was a slow start for me while the rest of S2 runners surged ahead.As I gathered my running momentum after the first water station at 3km mark,I increased my pace.Then I overtook Lau and was tailing Eric.Met up with Liau (from Melaka) and had a brief chat with him about previous night English Premier League football results.


The whole route was generally flat except for a few slopes of fly over.Nothing much to see along the route.The were adequate water stations and distance markers along the way.

The weather was nice on Sunday.I overtook Eric somewhere along the way(can't remember exactly) and I knew he was trailing me closely.Finally he overtook me at the last water station,at he 15km mark.I tried to increase my pace to keep up with him but I could not.He was speeding ahead.That guy (Eric) can really run!!

It was a short run and it ended after 90 minutes of running.I finished with a time of 1h 30 min 53 sec (from my own stop watch reading).The results for the rest of the group(unofficial):

1)Uu Ban:1h 28m.Very good results despite running River Jungle Marathon one week earlier.

2)Eric:1h 30m.Very good results despite his age.

3)Lau:1h 35m

4)Teng:1h 40m

5)Steve:1h 45m

6)Heng:1h 50m

***Picture taken using my old Sony Ericsson's hand phone while waiting for the rest of the S2 runners.Ever since I lost my camera/hand phone during Seremban Half Marathon,I decided not to bring my camera and any new hand phone for any run.I noticed many runners were using their latest touch screen model hand phone to snap pictures after the run.I was undecided if I wanted to take out my old hand phone....feeling kind of shy and inferior carrying this old model hand phone.When I asked a runner to snap a picture of me using my hand phone,he took some time to do it."Uncle,cannot lah.....press this button ah?".I feel so old when they call me uncle!Carrying around this old model hand phone even make me feel older.Ha..ha..ha...

Good points of the run:

1)Nice bright Adidas Running vest.

2)Nice finisher medal.

3)Plenty of bananas and drinks after the run.

4)Adequate water stations and distance markers along the route.

Personally I think the organiser did a good job this year.It was a fun and memorable run for me and for the S2 group members too, especially Lau.He was so "fired up"after the run...and he decided to sign up for the coming Nike 10km Run and the Malakoff 12km Run!!