My 6th KL Towerthon

Menara KL
Sunday, 14 May 2017

Alhamdulillah, berjaya untuk kali ke-6 walaupun bukan the best timing. Tapi, aku berjaya juga lah maintain less than 40mins. Hahaha. Gigih juga walaupun tak cukup training this year. Baru balik panjat gunung berapi tertingggi Indonesia pun pancit juga.

Medal this year

Setiap tahun KL Tower (Organizer) akan buat perubahan & this year still flag off by category cuma instead of flag off ramai-ramai, kali ni dia lepaskan 5 runners for every 15-30sec gap. So, memang lama sikitlah menunggu. Yang bagusnya takde lah ramai orang naik tangga sekali dalam suatu masa. Dan tak seperti tahun-tahun sebelumnya, runners kali ni dengan aman tak perlu queue terlalu panjang nak tunggu lif turun dari atas. Maybe lesson learnt from previous years. Tahun lepas agak kritikal juga sebab sampai ada yang pengsan sebab dengan oksigen yang tak cukup terpaksa pulak berhimpit-himpit tunggu giliran nak masuk lif yang cuma ada satu je pun. So, tahniah KL Tower for this year event kerana mengambil inisiatif untuk berubah ke arah kebaikan bersama.

Tahun ni flag off still by category cuma 5 runners for every 15-30secs gap

Kata-kata semangat... 

Final level

Selfie at the last level

Semoga dapat meneruskan tradisi

Cuma tahun ni aku rasa, sponsor tak banyak dah walaupun fee semakin mahal. Tak puas hati juga sebab takde kasi pisang dah lepas larian. Sebelum larian, ada kasi roti tapi takde air. Aku tak sure lah ada ke tak sebenarnya tapi memang tak dapat lah. Kecewa. Semakin lama, part ni je aku rasa makin lama makin tak best.

My 6th time

Dapat juga bergambo sebelah KL tower

Hopefully dapat mengekalkan acara tradisi untuk next year. InsyAllah.

My 4th KL Towerthon

KL Tower
Sunday, 17 May 2015

Kalau ikutkan, tahun di dah kali ke-5 aku join KL Towerthon tapi atas sebab-sebab yang dapat dielakkan, aku tak join larian 2 tahun lepas. Luckily, aku training panjat bukit & gunung every week, so, kesemputan nak panjat tu takdelah terasa sangat & aku boleh naik tangga tanpa perlu berhenti rehat untuk jangka masa yang lama. Cuma yang jadi penghalang nak gerak lebih laju kali, keadaan kaki yang masih belum pulih sepenuhnya. First 1km run, nak sampai ke starting point tangga pun dah amik 5minit.

Apapun aku berjaya habiskan larian walaupun target nak less than 30min tak berjaya. Aku cuma berjaya buat 34min 40sec. Hahaha, pektis naik tangga pun malas, nak berangan nak naik laju kan. Semenjak kejadian aku pektis naik tangga 15 tingkat kat ofis about 2 mnths ago tu, rasanya cukuplah nak buat training panjat tangga sorang-sorang lagi. Tak berani dah, takut nanti lain pulak jadinya. So, aku lebih prefer training kat gym. panjat bukit hujung minggu or lari-lari saja. Which aku rasa lagi safe & if anything happen pun still ada somebody around you.

InsyAllah will join again next year... selagi termampu.

Harap dapat tambah koleksi lagi untuk tahun berikutnya ;-)

Nice finisher medal from KL Tower

Towerthon 2014... Yes, I can Handle

Alhamdulillah, I did it although not my best time. Al-maklum semenjak dah kurang terjebak dalam marathon ni kan, so, stamina pun not so so lah. Luckily, aku tak sesemput 2 years back, maybe sebab kali ni event was held during sunrise... and to be honest, I prefered morning. And aku rasa training every week panjat bukit saga & apek, a lil bit helped me a lot. Training pun sebab nak ke Semeru June ni. Hopefully, semuanya berjalan lancar.

Tahun ni aku baru noticed special category for disable, not sure wheater last year ada ke tak tapi I really salute & respect them. Yelah dalam tak sempurna tapi keinginan untuk mencuba sesuatu yang diluar jangkaan sangat tinggi. Tahniah & keep it up your spirit. To all GGK yang masih belum panjat tu, renung-renungkan & selamat mencuba untuk next year yea.

Tahniah to all wakil GGK this year juga... Miza, Bai & Thirah. Kagum kejap dengan Cik Thirah ni, malam tadi baru balik dari Perth, next morning terus panjat KL Tower. Hebat stamina makcik ni.

Although this is my 3rd time, still nerbes

Done... Conquered

My 3rd time

Event kali ni agak smooth & well managed, Tahniah to organizer

Tahniah wakil GGK

Proud of Myself although not the best time ;-)

Bilakah "SEMANGAT" itu akan tiba?

My Home sweet Home
Friday, 10 May 2013

Last week masa dok kemas-kemas my "TREASURE" in my personal stuff box, baru aku perasan yang aku dah lama meninggalkan hobby aku yang satu nie "Marathon". Masa tu macam baru terfikir, apa jer aktivity marathon aku for year 2013... oppsss, NONE. Ntah lah bila kah kerajinan itu akan hadir. Sebenar nye, aku bukan malas tapi macam nak cari kelainan sikit dalam aktivity yang aku buat, contoh nye macam "Marathon" nie, aku macam nak cuba kelainan macam lari dalam hutan ke, lari tepi pantai, lari panjat bangunan ke, climbathon ke... apa lagi ek, apa-apa lah asalkan lain dari yang pernah aku buat sebelum nie. Tapi itulah...bila ntah agak nye, yelah asyik lari atas Jalan tar jer takpun kat Highway. At least aku dah tahu aku boleh lari atas jalan lagi laju dari aku lari atas treadmill. Statement nampak macam poyo kan tapi kelainan itulah yang BEST.

One of my favourite Event yang aku nantikan hujung minggu ni "KL Towerthon" pon, maybe, aku terpaksa lupakan. Walaupun hakikat nye, kaki ini meronta-ronta nak panjat KL Tower tu. Dah macam anual event kan. Apa nak buat, aku terpaksa akur kepada ajakan seorang sahabat ajak pergi bercuti... yang tak boleh blah tu ayat pematah semangat dia "Alah tiap-tiap tahun pun ko panjat KL Tower, cuma tahun ni je tak... setakat nak dapat medal tu je pon kan, apalah sangat". Sebab kawan baik punye pasal, emmhhh... aku terpaksa akur jugalah memikirkan this is not my 1st time. Anyway, aku dapat merasakan prestasi aku agak turun this year sebab lutut aku dah macam loose skit & hari-hari pergi surau naik tangga from level 1 to 5 pon dah semput, lagilah space dia besar & ade ruang pengudaraan yang cukup. Hahaha, ayat nak sedapkan hati.

Tapi yang pasti ni jelah aktivity berlari yang aku berjaya register this year & tak dapat pergi pon. Anyway Good Luck to GGK member yang join this year & hopefully improve record last year, OK.

Some of my collection... arrggghhh rindunye nak ber "marathon"

My second... KL Heritage Xplorace 2013

Date: Saturday, 23 Feb 2013

Starting Point: Menara KL

Duration: 5 Hrs + 1/2 Hr penalty (-1 for every 5 minutes)

Transport: Bus, LRT, Monorail (Taxi not allowed)

Rules: You must complete 8 Stations to qualify & collect passport stamps from every challenge  station after you complete the task

Before the event.... 

Collecting the goodie bag & attended short briefing by Time Out Solution.

Goodie Bag to be collected 2 days before

On the day of event...

My second time after the 2 years back event. Not much expecting, hoping just to have fun. Just a bit dissapointed with the 1st place assignment which we need to go first before proceed with other checkpoint. My group got KTM bhd as a 1st checkpoint we need to go. At that time, I assumed that everyone will go to the same place but not actually, they have assigned a different place. Lucky lah, sapa yang dapat pergi the nearest CP from KL tower. Senang skit and save banyak masa compare to my group yang nak kena patah balik ke Muzium Telekom after completed section yg berhampiran dengan ktm berhad.

This time event, my partner was Cik Hezrin, ex-Aker collegue. Emmhhh... agak-agak nye lepas ni serik lagi ke nak join.

Breakfast provided by organizer... one 100+ and Butterscotch Delicia, 
not enough for me :-(

Yeahhh... berlepas sudah... semangat sungguh participant kali ni

12 places we need to complete but 8 already qualified...
Map also provided to guide you

The race pack also provided with information on heritage venue...
Not all but quite useful to answer the multiple choice Questions :-)

First Station: Stesen Besar KTM

Need to go here first before proceed to other stations.

My mistake sebab tak tahu public transport other than taxi apa yg paling dekat dgn KL tower nk ke KTM Bhd. Yang aku tahu shortcut thru bukit nanas forest reserve... but still jauh nak ke 1st station, almost 30min. Mula-mula tu memang berlari-lari anak tapi dah hafway pancit... hahaha. Anyway... sampai juga lah... completed the 10 heritage Questions and proceed to next nearest destination, Central Market. 

Out first heritage venue... Stesen KTM Berhad

Infos on heritage provided in the race pack not really helpful so find another way... Internet 3G, apalah guna ade smartphone kan :-)

2nd Station: Central Market

Masa kami sampai CM, nampak most of the participants kat luar jer, ohh ok... maybe still too early. But, Marshal cakap CM tak kasi masuk (maybe cos too early to open to public), so our walk hunt Question inside CM cancelled. So, we only need to answer 5Q. 

3rd Station: Taman Budaya @ Jalan Tun HS Lee

The nearest after CM. Walking almost 15 minutes jugalah. Anyway, tak pernah tahu pun pasal tempat nie luckily ade google map. Very helpful. Our task kat sini, as per photo below. Jalan atas mangkuk sambil sebelah kaki  pasangan diikat...huhuhu. Traditional way using coconut shell or tempurung kelapa. Tak habis buat sebab ade timing, tunggu Cik Erin nak balance pon amek masa... tak habis-habis ketaq... dari hiking terbawa-bawa sampai  xplorace, hehehe. 

Task at Taman Budaya

4th Station: Chin Woo Stadium @ Jalan Hang Jebat

Our next nearest station. Nak ke sini memang takde public transport rasanye other than taxi tapi tak jauh pun from Taman Budaya. Cuma yang paling tak boleh blah... kena naik bukit. Dah lah semput berlari tak habis lagi... kena mendaki pulak. Sampai-sampai je dah kena buat task memancing botol dalam swimming pool. Pun ade timing juga... within 90 seconds... pancing sebanyak mungkin.

Task at Chin Woo Stadium... memancing botol (source: Menara KL)

5th Station: Victoria Institution @ Jalan Statdium

Nak ke sini confirm lah kena berjalan sebab memang takde public transport pun nak ke sini. Tapi memang dah dekat dengan Chin Woo stadium. Our task here... tarik upih pinang, traditional malay game. For this task, Erin dah awal-awal offer nak tarik aku. OK, fine... I follow. Tapi hafway nak patah balik, dia dah surrender... aku tak sure samaada dia betul-betul tak larat or aku yang dah makin berat... emmhhh.

Task at Victoria School... Tarik Upih, Of cos lah Erin yang akan tarik aku

6th Station: Dewan Bahasa & Pustaka @ Jalan Wisma Putra

The nearest after Victoria Institution. Tapi agak bahaya juga sebab kena lintas jalan besar. Kat sini kami cuma perlu complete kan another 10 heritage MCQ. Actually, this questions already in the race pack and can be completed before arrived at this checkpoint. Save your time cause there's no answers at DBP.

After task at DBP, we straight away took the nearest LRT to Muzium Telekom & return back to LRT to Dang wangi Station for our next venue

 
7th Station: Muzium Telekom

After DBP, kami terus cari the nearest LRT station... Hang Tuah. Tak larat dah but still we had to walk to the LRT station. After this, task kami semua yang berhampiran dengan LRT. Nak ke Muzium Telekom ni pun makan masa juga... menapak lagi. Kalau lah aku dapat 1st Check point kat sini tadi confirm save banyak masa nak ke tempat lain... kann.

Task at Muzium Telekom... Baling Selipar, my favorite childhood game

8th Station: Dang Wangi LRT station

Task ni memang confirm lah kena naik LRT sebab takde makne nye nak menapak ke sini dari Muzium Telekom. And task ni pun dah semestinye kena naik LRT sebab as per instruction in the race pack. Task at this station... you need to prepare Tradiotional Iban Costume, then, wear it and finally, kena dancing lah lepas tu. We were given a set of newspapers, masking tape & lipstick to complete the task. So, use your creativity.

Preparing the Traditional Iban costume (source: Menara KL)

Agak-agak dah boleh follow step on the video... apa lagi tunjuk kan lah bakat yang terpendam tu kat depan para juri, mana lah tahu kan sangkut pulak masuk TV
(source: Menara KL)

Huru hara dah costume aku... after the dancing done

9th Station: Maxis KLCC @ Jalan Ampang

The last station before we ended up the race. The task was you need to answer 10 MCQ about Maxis. We were given brochures all about maxis... Smartphone package, Broadband, Internet fiber dan yang sewaktu dengan nye, to help us answering the MCQ. Dah tak macam heritage xplorace dah aku rase... tanye lah soalan yang berkaitan heritage ke, tak pun Malaysia History... adelah kaitan juga kan. Opppss lupa plak.... sponsor.

Task at menara maxis... answering MCQ provided with Maxis Brochures
(source: Menara KL)

Other stations...
 
Memandangkan task kat maxis habis pukul 12.30pm... so, aku rase memang dah tak sempat dah nak ke 3 stations lagi. Almost penalty time. Kalau lambat 5 minutes, deduct 1 mark. Half an hour after 1pm... terus disqualified. So, I choose to end the race without thinking of proceed to another stations. Muktamad.

Tasik Titiwangsa
 

Ade two stations you need to go at Tasik Titiwangsa. And two different tasks you need to perform.

One of the task at Tasek Titiwangsa (source: Menara KL)

Matic (Malaysia Tourist Centre) @ Jalan Ampang

Sempat passed by jelah tak sempat nak singgah.

Task at Matic... we skipped this venue since not much time left... passed by jelah cos almost penalty time (source: Menara KL)

Finally...
 

We arrived at the finishing point at 1.12pm...penalty time,12 minutes meaning deduct 3 marks. Agak-agak nye kalau aku buat task kat Matic tu terus disqualified... hehehe.

Tak complete 3 venues

Lunch also provided

Closing ceremony berlansung dalam pukul 3 macam tu, aku tunggu jugalah announcement for top 10. Lepas tu, terus blah... sebab dah penat sangat and tahu confirm tak menang. Lari marathon 10KM non-stop pun tak sepenat ini. Maybe sebab cuaca yang sangat panas dah killed my stamina on that day. Anyway, congrats to all the winners on that day... you deserve to win.

Congratulations to the winner... cayalah (source)

For top 30 results... you may refer to Menara KL FB

KL Tower Day/Night Towerthon 2012

KL Tower
19 May 2012, 4.00 p.m

My second time after last year event on 2011. Last year, the event was held at night and I still remembered that for wopen open we started at 9.30pm like that. But, this year the flag off time for all categories has been changed to day time except the men open category. And compare to last year, this year participants not as many as last year event.

The major challenges we need to overcome this year was the very hot weather outside plus running in small confined area with limited ventilation. 

At the starting point... before flag off, seriously nervous time nie

Tak sabar nak lari dah nie...

Compare to last year event, tahun ni cuma kami bertiga je yang gagah nak masuk berlari. Yang lain kurang pasti plak sebab nye tak join. Ubet pun takde kali ni... hehehe.

Dah start lari dahh...

Ahli-ahli GGK yang bersemangat

Aku rase kali ni macam tak sehebat tahun lepas sebab aku agak pancit sikit. Sebab pernafasan agak terganggu dengan cuaca kat luar yang agak panas ditambah plak breathing in confine area. Masa kat level 17, aku terpaksa keluar juga dalam setengah minit nak dapat udara segar sikit, nasib baik lah ade kipas besar kat situ boleh lah nak bernafas skit… hehehe. Lepas tu, baru lah aku start balik slowly non-stop. 

Each 4 levels ade water station, provided with 100 plus & TM mineral water. Last year event, KL tower ade sponsor mineral water & air zam zam. Yang menarik nye bottle dia exactly like KL tower design. But this year takde plak, maybe dah banyak sangat yang sponsor kot, so, they keep for another KL Tower event.

Alhamdulillah... successfully finish the run

Nice medal from KL Tower

Ni tengah posing untuk iklan lori milo kat belakang tu... hehehe

Kami dah naik tower ni tadi... best tau

Kalau tahun lepas penyokong setia merangkap camera man kami, Ubet Underline tapi tahun ni Cik Gojes plak pengganti nye. Thanks yea tolong support kami-kami ni. Really appreciate that walaupun tahu kaki awak tengah sakit. Aku tak paksa kan… hehehe. To Gojes, aku cilok semua gambo kat camera ko... thank u so much babe.

Yes.. I did it

Result dah released semalam juga and aku cuma mampu berada di ranking ke 88. Ok lah out of 313 women open runners. My timing was 35 minute 11 sec.

Hopefully can do better next time.

The full result

KL Tower Night Towerthon 2011

Saturday, 7th May 2011
KL Tower

My first time to enter this international event organized by KL Tower. Last year, not a chance to join this event. I was too excited eventhough it was my first time experinece, I managed to complete the race less than 30 mins... not sure but I counted the timing myself. And lagi Best... becos ramai GGK yang join this event. Thanks to Huzz for registering for me n others.

Since this is my first time, not much I can say... or more precise to compare with the last year race event. But based on Huzz nyer citer, last year they released all participants together... all the categories. So, you could imagine how people are struggled to get into top with too many people into narrow, small, hot KL Tower stairs. Blum masuk dengan bau-bau yang semerbak lagi tue....boleh fening and pengsan dibuat nyer for those who not familiar with all these. So, to those who had asthma, or any disease that related to you breathing pleaseeee... don't involve yourself into these.

But these year, the arrangement is slightly different... participants are being released by category... maybe b'cos there's so many hot issues from last year event. For example, like category A, Men's open... since there's too many of them, they have been split it up to 3 grups and released with different time, each with 15 min gap. And that's why, we started late.

Before starting of the race... still fresh n steady

I was surprised too because Ubet that we used to know thru FB suddenly came. Unexpected, like GGK, he shared the same interest like us... Hiking & travelling. Selama ni kenal Ubet thru FB pun... never knew exactly how his look like b'cos He never post His own photos... I guest. Tapi yang kelakar nyer bleh plak dia kenal and cari aku ... hehehe, nampak sangat glamor. Anyway, thanks to Ubet for coming and support us... the one and only...hahaha. At first, He said not sure tapi suddenly appeared plak. Thanks also for being our unofficial photographer and supporter.

After the race... still looking good in pics

With our only supporter... Ubet

During the race...

We started a bit late... suppose 9.30 p.m flag-off but since each category there's a gap for 15 min before they can release the next category... we have to wait again. The reasons... so that, not too many people while running at the stairs to the top. can u imagine... the stairs are too narrow, small & vey hot. But, don't worry... luckily, every level, you can go outside for a while to get some fresh air, relax or having some sponsored drinks to release your thirst. To me, I stopped only for a sponsored drinks. Before started the race, all of us agreed to walk and run slowly... so that we are less tired but once you up there you will feel difference... Suddenly, I felt I shud be more faster and out of sudden the mood of racing slowly rise. And suddenly, I become more aggresive to finish the race.

To me, those who wanted to join this KL Tower race, you need a lot of practice and make sure you're really fit before you try this.

People pushing each other to get inside

Queueing to go down... we have to wait almost one hour

This is real situation during the race

Apa yang tak best nyer...

we didn't get any goodie bag. The only goodie bag that they gave us is during the race kit collection, itupun only consists of running t-shirt, running chip (for running time) and KL Tower map. Errgghh... that's all. No coupons, no sponsored items, no vouchers and nothing more. We only get sandwiches and a bottle of sweet drink before starting of the race. That's all. But, during the race... every after 5 floor... you will be supplied with 100 plus water and KL tower Mineral water & Air zam zam juga.

We had to push each other to get into the lift. No guards to give instruction... ade pun cume push the door ...not allowed people to go in...huh. Next time, there shud be a guard or anyone who suppose to handle the crowd at the lift queueing area. Tsunami victims in Japan also know how to queue to take their food (could u imagine how many of them)... but the discipline is still there. Why our Malaysian cannot follow that? I believe if the management of KL Tower realize this they shud take a serious action on these so that people are more civilized.

Kesimpulan nyer...

I was really enjoying the race. Although it was my firs time, to me, it was like a beginner record because I could make it within less than 35 minutes. Alhamdulillah, no pain after the race. Hopefully to join this race again next year 2012 event and I really want to improve the timing and of cos beat the Kenyan. Hahaha... ade bran.

Our winning medals... congrats

This time the best time from all categories mostly won by Kenyan... apa rahsia nyer selain kaki yang panjang... oppsss... tak sure plak. Anyway 13mins is the best time for this time event.

Hope this is not the end

Petikan from FB Cik T-rah... "Aku ni nama nyer orang KL tapi first time naik KL Tower guna tangga"... hahaha...sama lah kita yea. OK lah tu... ade kelainan skit... kata Geng Gunung Ke??? So, mesti lain dari yang lain skit kan.

Can check it out the result here...

http://www.kltower.com.my/_repository/_pdf/Women.pdf