Deuter Trail Fun Run 2013

It is a trail running, thus most of us in EFR team are so, so, so, damn excited!

Event: Deuter Trail Fun Run 2013

Date: 5th May 2013, Sunday

Venue: Putrajaya Challenge Park

Distance: 7km Trail

Fee: RM50

Entitlements: Event tee, finisher medal, sponsor items

Registration opens on Saturday, 30 March 2013.

The first 500 to register will get the cute Deuter camera bag!

For more info, please log on to their SITE,

or LIKE their FB page here.

Malakoff Penang Run 2013 Results and Photos

Event: Malakoff Penang Run 2013

Date: 17 March 2013, Sunday

Time: 7.00am

Venue: Padang Kota Lama, Penang

EFRs: EFR 3-17KM, EFR 11-7KM

Winner results

All results

AGAIN like last year, EFR 3 and EFR 11 joined the race..and AGAIN EFR 3 did 17km, while EFR 11 did 7km.

Penang Museum, filled the race route scenery.

Check point for 17km category. 

EFR 23 was also there to support other friends running.

The only entertainment we had along the route. This is at KM10. The runners were given marshmallows and jelly beans to recharge their energy. Thanks anyway!

Upcoming events

All EFRs who really wish to know the future coming running/running-related events, are advised to check out this post. We will have specific posts for *EFR's choice events. If you need to know in details about other events, you may leave your message here and the editors will try to entertain and post specifically about the event you requested. Thank you.

23 Mar - Avon Charity Walk 2013

24 Mar - Mega Sprint Duathlon 2013 (Singapore)

29-31 Mar - Sabah Adventure Challenge 2013

31 Mar - MAKNA Founder's Run 2013*

31 Mar - 2XU Compression Half Marathon 2013 (Singapore)*

7 Apr - Malaysia Women Marathon 2013

7 Apr - NTC Income Run 350 2013 (Singapore)

7 Apr - Standard Chartered Half Marathon Brunei 2013 (Brunei)

7 Apr - Nottingham Charity Run 2013

14 Apr - Org Asli Trail Run 2013

14 Apr - KL 10K Road Race 2013*

21 Apr - World Kidney Day Run 2013*

21 Apr - Island Ocean Marathon 2013

21 Apr - Mega Sprint Triathlon 2013 (Singapore)

21 Apr - Jogathon Warisan 2013

27 Apr - XTerra Malaysia 2013*

28 Apr - Bidor Half Marathon 2013

28 Apr - Kidney Run 2013

1 May - Larian Tanggathon Batu Caves

5 May - Borneo International Marathon 2013*

11 May - Energizer S'pore Night Trail Race 2013 (Singapore)*

12 May - Larian Hari Keputeraan Sultan Azlan Shah 2013

12 May - Pisang Relay 2013

12 May - Kuantan Run 2013

12 May - Penang Run Series 1/4 2013*

19 May - KL Sunrise Towerthon 2013*

19 May - Langkawi Int'l Duathlon 2013

19 May - Barefoot Fun Run 2013

25 May - MTB International Jamboree 2013 (Singapore)

26 May - HELP Organ Donation Run 2013

31 May - Sundown Marathon 2013 (Singapore)*

2 Jun - The Mines Charity Run 2013

9 Jun - Mizuno Wave Run 2013*

9 Jun - Pisang Relay Penang Run 2013

16 Jun - BII Bali Marathon 2013 (Indonesia)*

16 Jun - Muar 21KM Cross-country 2013

16 Jun - Live Active Run 2013

20-22 Jun - Langkawi Iron Bound 2013

22 Jun - Alpha Run II 2013

23 Jun - Olympic Day Run 2013

30 Jun - Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2013*

7 Jul - NTV 7 Feel Good Run 2013*

7 Jul - Penang Run Series 2/4 2013*

25 Aug - Men Health's and Shape Night Run 2013*

1 Sep - River Jungle Marathon 2013*

7 Sep - SP Half Marathon 2013*

10 Sep - Rat Race 2013*

14 Sep - The Most Beautiful Thing Ultra-trail Marathon 2013

15 Sep - Yellow Ribbon Prison Run 2013 (Singapore)

22 Sep - Tesco Walk 2013

28 Sep - Larian Jambatan Sultan Mahmud 2013

29 Sep - Nestle Walk 2013

13 Oct - Penang Run Series 3/4 2013*

19 Oct - BSN Putrajaya Night Marathon 2013*

10 Nov - World Diabetes Day Run 2013

17 Nov - Allianz Penang Bridge Run 2013*

1 Dec - Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2013 (Singapore)*

*EFR's choice

p/s: Other than stated in bracket, all events are in Malaysia.

Red Alert! Awesome events coming up...

As I tour around my favourite websites, I have found lots of exciting news, pictures and . One of the site is Hooha.Asia, and I have found two exciting upcoming running events:

1. Putrajaya Night Marathon 2013

2. Gaza 10K Run

Written on the site:

"We're Back! Lock Your Dates! 

19th of October 2013

12,000 participants ONLY this year. Get your gears up and ready. Don't miss out!"

Written on the site:

"Untukmu Gaza - Gaza 10k Run 

Together We Unite For Gaza

09 June 2013 / 7am / Wangsa Walk

3,000 participants

More details, go to Hooha.Asia.

Mizuno Wave Run is back with 2013 edition...don't miss your slot!

Event: Mizuno Wave Run 2013

Date: 9 June 2013, Sunday

Time: 6:30am (16km), 7:00am (7km)

Distances: 16km & 7km Fun Run

Fees: 

Normal - RM60 (16km), RM45 (7km)

PACM members - RM50 (16km), RM45 (7km)

Closing date of reg: 25 May or 4000 pax whichever earlier

Entitlements: 

All - Mizuno 30% discount voucher, vest, bib, light breakfast

16km only - Timing chip, medal, e-cert, top 10 prize, top 5 trophy

17km only - Manual cert

Register Here!

Penang Run 2013/2014 Series

Event: Penang Run 2013/2014

Series 1

Date: 12 May 2013

Time: 5:30am

Start: Esplanade

End: Teluk Kumbar

Distance: 21KM

Fee: RM60

Maximum: 1000 pax

Race kit collection date: 11 May 2013

Entitlements: Medal, race singlet, bib & timing chip

Click here for S1 Map

Series 2

Date: 7 July 2013

Time: 5:30am

Start: Teluk Kumbar

End: Sg Pinang, Balik Pulau

Distance: 21KM

Fee: RM60

Maximum: 1000 pax

Race kit collection date: 6 July 2013

Entitlements: Medal, race singlet, bib & timing chip

Click here for S2 Map

Series 3

Date: 13 October 2013

Time: 5:30am

Start: Sg Pinang, Balik Pulau

End: Teluk Bahang

Distance: 14KM

Fee: RM60

Maximum: 1000 pax

Race kit collection date: 12 October 2013

Entitlements: Medal, race singlet, bib & timing chip

Click here for S3 Map

Series 4

Date: 12 January 2014

Time: 5:30am

Start: Sg Pinang, Balik Pulau

End: Teluk Bahang

Distance: 21KM

Fee: RM60

Maximum: 1000 pax

Race kit collection date: 11 January 2014

Entitlements: Medal, race singlet, bib & timing chip

Click here for S4 Map

Combo Series

Combo Series: Registration for all 4 series

Fee: RM200 (save RM40)

Entitlements: Finisher Tee, Medal, race singlet, bib & timing chip

Register Combo!

p/s: As it is a point-to-point run, transport will be arranged to transfer participants from the finishing point back to the start point. WARNING: NO TRANSPORT FROM STARTING POINT TO THE FINISHING POINT! WHAT THE H...(kih kih kih)

Website

FB Page

Email address: helpdesk@howei.com

"A successful Press Conference was held at Chief Minister of Penang, YAB Lim Guan Eng office, Komtar 28 Floor, Georgetown on 6 March, 2013 at 1pm. 

Thanks to the YB Danny Heng Kiang, YB Lim Hock Seng, YB Lydia Ong, Steven Sim and several reporters witnessed the launch."

- from Penang Run 2013/2014 official site

Brooks Half Marathon 2013 Results, Photos and Record Breaking!

To check your result, click here.

Here are photos of EFRs/editors with friends.

Cool mini trophy to all finishers

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Brooks Half Marathon 2013 has been a place for our EFR 18 - Min-Yi to set a new milestone for EYKL Fun Runners Team. For about 1 year and 47 days, EFR 1 - Ikhwan hold the fastest 10K (among EFRs) with 50:50 mins, and now it has been beaten by Min-Yi's 49:11. There's still room for improvement for our runners, however we proud that our runners are keep running, faster and faster. Keep trying! Keep running!

EYKL Fun Runners!

CONGRATULATIONS

...for choosing "RUNNING" as your lifestyle!

The North Face Singapore City Race 2013: Result & Event Day

Event: The North Face Singapore City Race 2013
Venue: Singapore
Date: 3^rd March 2013, Sunday
EFRs: EFR 7 & EFR 25 (Both 10KM)

Check Your Result Here!

3^rd March 2013, Singapore once again set their bar high in organizing such an awesome event called Singapore City Race 2013. This is their first time organizing such a race, the event consist of four categories: Mini Distance for 5km, Short Distance for 10km, Mid Distance for 20km and Long Distance for 40KM. All the runners get to explore Singapore in the first The North Face Singapore City Race, a race like no other. This free-form foot race get the runners running through Singapore’s iconic landmarks, discover Singapore in a day from their modern city center, through Singapore River, to Chinatown, old Colonial Singapore, their beautiful gardens and much more. Runners get a glimpse of the rich heritage and color of Singapore. 

Race  kit collection at Marina Square on 16-17^th February 2013

EFR 7 together with EFR 25 and her husband and kids join the race as team called EFR representing our blog. They registered for short distance- 10KM as they ran with kids in 2 strollers. They are given a map of Singapore and 5 checkpoints that they need to go to collect a sticker at each checkpoint and complete the race with all 5 stickers. 

EFR team (EFR 7 and EFR 25 with her family)

For short distance, the race flag off at 9.30am, EFR 7 as the leader and the person in charge to lead the run (as she is good in reading map) planned the route for the race. She decided to go to Checkpoint 2 (near Chinatown) then Checkpoint 4 (near riverside point) then Checkpoint 3 (on top of the hills of Fort Canning Park), followed by Orchard Road as Checkpoint 6 (in front of Ion Orchard) and the last Checkpoint 5 (at Bugis area) before heading back to finish line across Millenia Walk where the race started.

EFR 7 showing the route to EFR 25

As they run or they called it strolling with the kids, they don’t really run during the race, they walk and pushing the stroller along the way. They didn’t get the best timing, infact 6^th place from the last (368 out of 373 teams), with a timing 4hrs and 39 mins,yet they didn’t bother about the timing as they had so much fun exploring the city. Most of the time they were camwhoring, taking picture of the iconic landmarks and their running moments, not to forget had to change the diapers for the baby, feed the baby and make some milk, toilet break, window shopping (can u imagine they had a window shopping time during the race), having their lunch break at Shiraz Mazzeh having premium lamb kebab and beef kebab, and eating the famous 1 dollar ice cream in a bun along orchard road.

EFR 7 pushing the stroller up the hills of Fort Canning Park (3^rd Checkpoint)

EFR 25 having fun with her husband and the kids

Their lunch at Shiraz Mazzeh Kebab along Orchard Road

Having 1 dollar ice cream in bun at Orchard Road

The race is a good way promoting Singapore and a good tourism idea to attract people to join the race in the future. Some of Singaporean runners who did 40km run also said there are many place that they haven’t explore in their own country and they also had so much fun in that race.

At the finishing line, all the runners are provided with isotonic drinks, yogurt bar, apple, orange, banana, chicken subway for non muslim, veggie subway for vegetarians and the one that caught our attention was they even provided food for muslim runners. The meal was awesome.

Food after the run

All and all, from the feedback of EFR 7 and EFR 25, they definitely wanna join the race again next year if the Organizer decided to have it, as they are totally happy and enjoy the race. For EFR 7, she said she love the idea of the race and the sightseeing so she plan to join the mid distance in the future and get a better timing for sure. Thumbs up to the organizer, it was an awesome event.

EFR 7 with her 10km finisher medal and running bib with complete 5 checkpoints stickers 

Mount Kinabalu Climb

On the 17th of February 2013, EFR 18 went on a journey to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah to climb up one of the highest mountains in South East Asia region with his group of friends (10 of them in total). They have planned this trip since September 2012 which was about 6 months ago. They booked the trip through the this agent, Amazing Borneo Tours Sdn Bhd. The package which they went (3D2N Mesilau Trail) is RM900 but they have already increased their price this year in 2013 to RM950. A deposit of 50% is needed upon booking and the remaining 50% is to be paid 1 month before the trip.

Everything checked.

Day 1 (17th February 2013)
On that day, early in the morning, they woke up at 4 a.m. to double check that they have packed everything into their back packs and catch the Skybus service from One Utama to the Low Cost Carrier Terminal ("LCCT"). They arrived at LCCT at about 6 a.m. in the morning. While waiting to depart from LCCT to Kota Kinabalu, they had breakfast at Old Town White Coffee in LCCT. They were all so excited about the trip and can't wait to be there and start climbing.

Departure from LCCT was at 7.55 a.m. and they arrived at the Kota Kinabalu Airport at 10.30 a.m. The flight is about 2 hours 30 minutes. Upon arrival, the tour guide was so punctual as he was already waiting for us outside the airport with a huge bus all by ourselves. After they board onto the bus, the tour guide began to brief them about the trip.

They arrived at the foothill of Mount Kinabalu at about 3 p.m. and started exploring the Mesilau Nature Resort Park while waiting for the dinner to be served at 7 p.m.

In front of the Mesilau Nature Resort.

They had the whole restaurant for ourselves during that night and the food was reasonably good which was better than what they had expected.

Dinner at the Mesilau Nature Resort.

After dinner, they went back to their rooms which is sort of like a backpacking style chalet with double decker beds. It is a nice place to stay because they had water heater for us to bathe as the temperature there was kinda cold at night which was probably as cold as Genting Highlands. They made sure that they had enough rest that day because they have to start hiking up to Laban Rata Resthouse (mid point in Mount Kinabalu whereby many people stop and stay for a night) the following morning.

Day 2 (18th February 2013)
They had breakfast in the morning at about 9 a.m. and then the real journey begins up the Mesilau Summit Trail which is about 8.5 km to reach the Laban Rata Resthouse.

2km mark of the Mesilau Summit Trail.

Somewhere along the way where they still have some energy to smile :)

They were all drenched wet due to the heavy rain. The trail became more like a river stream but it didn't stop them from going up.

Finally, they arrived at the Laban Rata Resthouse after 9 hours of hike.

They arrived at the Laban Rata Resthouse at about 6 p.m. which they took slightly longer than what they expected to due to the heavy rain. However, it was just in time for dinner to fill up their stomachs after a long journey. The food was not too bad but they definitely preferred the one down there at Mesilau Nature Resort.

After dinner, they begin to unpack their things as they could actually leave some of their things behind before they continue up to the summit the next morning. However, due to the heavy rain earlier, all their things inside their backpacks were drenched although they had water-proof covers over it. Clothes were all wet and it made it hard for us to sleep despite the fact that they only had about 5 hours left to sleep by the time they finished their dinner because they have to wake up at 2 a.m. the next morning.

Day 3 (19th February 2013)

They couldn't sleep well last night as some of them had headache, suffered from the cold, and too excited over the climb. However, nothing stopped them from going on. They gathered, had breakfast in the morning, and the last stretch of their journey began at 3 a.m. It was still dark in the morning and they had to use their headlamps to help them watch out on the path. Ropes were needed at certain parts as the incline of the mountain was too steep and slippery. They planned to reach the summit at 6 a.m. in order to catch the sunrise. Finally they reached the top at about 6.15 a.m., although slightly late, sunrise hasn't begun yet. However, due to the cloudy weather, the sunrise couldn't be seen clearly to their disappointment.

At the top. (4,095m above sea level)

EFR18 at the top.

Just a glimpse of the sunrise.

They didn't stay long at the summit and begin to travel down back to Laban Rata Resthouse to have their meal before continuing all the way back down but through the Timpohon Summit Trail this time.

The hike back down.

They reached back at Laban Rata at about 10a.m. Packed their things, had their meals, and the journey back down to the Timpohon Gate. They were quite tired and exhausted but they have to go on because they needed to catch their flight on that day's evening.

Coming down was much faster. They only took about 4 hours from Laban Rata Resthouse to Timpohon Gate but that is because the Timpohon Summit Trail is actually 2km shorter compared to the Mesilau Summit Trail which they used when they went up.

Immediately upon reaching the Timpohon Gate, they boarded onto the bus and went straight to the Kota Kinabalu Airport. They only had a small amount of time to have their dinner at the airport and they had KFC as a small reward after completing the climb. Their tour guide told them that, they are the first team in the last 9 years of his service that managed to climb up all the way to the summit as a team because usually part of the team would be left behind at the Laban Rata Resthouse due to injuries or altitude sickness. Great effort and good teamwork to them as they all encouraged each other to go on all the way to the summit.

All in all, it was a great trip indeed. Nice sceneries, great experiences, and a good company to go with. :)

Panoramic shot of Laban Rata Resthouse

Panoramic shot from the Low's Peak (summit of Mount Kinabalu)

-MY Gerardo-

SP Half Marathon 2013: Event details

Event: SP Half Marathon 2013

Venue: Dataran Zero, Sg Petani, Kedah

Date: 14 September

Time: 5.30am - 11.00am

Source: SP Half Marathon Organiser's Facebook Page

 HERE To Register Now!