PBIM 2011 Official Results

This year I am the first 478 men half marathoner that finished the run. I know it may sound normal to other people but it's been a great achievement to me. Last year I was at 1000+ placing to finish the run. =) Anyway, I hope my improvement will not just stop here but will go on in the next year to come. 

PBIM 2011 - Training Log

PBIM 2011 is not in my plan initially because I was planning for a long trip to New Zealand near to that time frame. However, it happened that I came back from New Zealand about 2weeks before the run so I decided to just register for the half marathon since the registration deadline has been extended until that time frame for me. =) I don't want to struggle too much during the actual PBIM run so I decided to really train for it. I started to run at Jelutong (near to burger king) almost everyday. I always run with my iPhone so I recorded almost all my training log as shown below. It was not really a very intensive training because I just ran for about 7km a day in average. I will definitely train better next year before the run just to make sure I have a more leisure run next year. =)

My PBIM 2011 record

I just finished the Penang bridge international marathon (PBIM) at Queensbay mall just now. This year I met the target finishing time of 2 hours 15 minutes to complete the half marathon of 21km in distance. I used Nike plus apps on my iPhone to track my timing and distance, it shows that I finished the 21km in 2hrs11mins. This may not be perfectly correct because it was manually started and ended by hand. For final results, I still need to wait for PBIM record using the d-tag. Anyhow, it's a good indications that I can at least meet or pretty closed to my target completion time.

Obviously this year there is more water stations and 100plus stations compared to last year. This year they have added small groups of cheer leaders at a few stations along the run. And as usual, drummers were placed at the middle point of the run to cheer us up to run better. It's a good way to motivates the runner in that way especially those runners that feels really tired or wanted to give up.

I always believe that the spirits of runners is to have consistency and determination to finish the run once it is started. I am here to encourage runners of all categories to keep the spirits of runner while running. You can DO IT!! Cheers!!

Counting down to PBIM 2011

I have never thought that I have a chance to participate in PBIM this year because I was planning a long vacation in New Zealand at this period of time. However, due to some limitation of the leave application I have decided to leave NZ earlier by 3months so I got the chance to RUN this year!! I know PBIM has been a very grand event in Malaysia and everybody seems to be interested in the running. Personally, I think PBIM is a good motivation for me to keep myself training for it. I only have about 2 weeks time to train for this run so I actually run like average 7km everyday. It was a tough training for me but I know it will benefit me in both physically and mentally. I know it will be a great fun to run and take a fresh breath in the early morning on the Penang bridge that is free from busy traffics. Cheers!

Event: Penang Bridge International Marathon
Date: Nov 20, 2011
Time: 3.00am (Start time for half marathon of men's open)
Venue: Queensbay Mall (Penang Island, Start and End point)