Time: 2am
Venue: Queensbay mall, Penang.
Distance: 43km
Record: 5:55hrs
Remarks:
After KL marathon I become lazy a bit in training, sometime I need rest if push too hard.
Forget about training, just done once 20km run a week before PBIM.
Not joining as pacer this year may be dis-selected by organizer due to some debate on 2012(story) , and this year the organizer quite late in reply & arrangement.
Is raining season, running under heavy rain not suitable for all runner at least not for me.
That's why I failed to pace after heavy rain at 30km as PBIM 2010 pacer.
3 days before the race I ran 10mins and stop due to right knee pain, thinking to just aim for a sub 5 hours finishing.
After long way from KL with rented bus, we reached tune hotel as usual after the bib collection at Queensbay mall. The hot sun never show us is still raining season.
Because the race on early of morning 2am, we have to sleep on afternoon the day before & wake up on 11pm take bus to the starting point.
We ate the so call "meal before rest like a pig" at an open air hawker food stall by 15mins walk. I ate prawn mee hun aka hokian mee & some kind of "six taste" dessert drink. some of us can't sleep well in this few hours, but I just fall in quickly after bath.
11:45pm heading to starting point, raining..
12:00am storing my bag "free of charge" at baggage point but feel damn far away.
Chit chat time start and waiting, photo-ing, waiting.. with runner friends.
Q up at starting point, thinking of last year we shake hand with CM Lim Guan Eng in honor as pacer.
Starting the race slow, didn't want to have any injury in this race.
The first 10km is steady with knee pain, the 2nd 10km also.
But after 20km U-turn hip pain coming after knee pain, start walking.
About 23km meet weileng, start back run & pace with her.
Think to walk after 30km but she still running, just follow.
Then she became my motivation to keep running.
Walk in the last few km & finished it together before 6 hours.
Sometime we become an inspiration, sometime we get motivation.
Is good to have someone pacing till the end, I appreciated it whether as a friend or buddy.
Btw I dislike to complaint but firstly the U-turn is a messy way, I been hit by the runner's hand who run toward me just nothing happen but not sure about others.
Second is the distance makers, not enough cause not every runner got GPS watch to know the distance.
Third is the human traffic from the 21km & 10km runners, is very annoying for marathon runners to avoid that.
Nothing to say more, hopefully PBIM will do better on coming year.
And recovery soon for my injuries.
KL马拉松后我有点懒惰去训练，有时太用力了需要多一点休息。
就这样忘记了训练，只在比赛一个星期前跑过一次20公里。
今年没当配速员（兔子）或许被主办人略过因为去年的争议（故事），而且这次举办人安排和回复都很慢。
这是下雨的季节，豪雨下不一定适合每个跑者至少不适合我。
那是为什么在2010年PBIM的30公里后慢下来了，算是失败的兔子。
比赛3天前跑了10分钟就停了因为右膝盖痛，就想跑个5小时完赛就好了。
从KL租巴士到Queensbay mall拿比赛号码，然后到tune hotel入住。
天气热得不像是在雨季。
比赛在凌晨2点，我们需要在前一天的下午入睡然后11点晚上醒来上巴士到起跑点。
我们走了15分钟到附近的露天美食档，吃了一餐，饱了就睡像只猪。
我点了虾米粉就是福建米粉和六味糖水。
有些人吃饱了睡不好，但是我洗澡后就倒下了。
11：45pm 去着起跑点，雨一直下。。
12：00am 走去很远的存物柜台“免费”存放我的肩包。
和旧没见的跑步朋友聊天，拍照，等待。。
在起跑点前排队，想起去年当兔子的我们有荣幸和槟州首长林冠英握手。
开始时是慢跑，不想要在这场比赛有任何受伤。
前10公里带着膝盖伤但是跑得稳，第二个10公里也一样。
但是过了20公里U转，臀部开始疼痛，走路了。
大约23公里遇见weileng，开始跟着她跑。
想着在30公里走回终点但是她还跑着，就继续跑吧。
然后她成了我继续跑的动力。
在最后的几公里走路，和她一起在6小时前完成这场马拉松。
有时我们激励着别人，有时我们得到些鼓励。
我感恩无论和朋友或战友一起完成马拉松，都是件美好的事。
我不喜欢投诉，不过也记录一些能改善的地方。
第一是第一的U转很乱没有隔开，我有被反方向的跑者手打到还好没事，别人就不确定有没有事。
第二是距离标记太少了，不是每一个跑者都有GPS手表测距离。
第三是人潮阻塞，全马的跑者很辛苦去闪避半马和10公里的跑者。
不多说，希望PBIM来年可以做得更好。
也希望我的伤可以迅速恢复。
