Saturday, February 28, 2009

Congratulation Abupower !!!!

Great results from Abu Soffian Azzahari (abupower) who had completed his second Ironman Langkawi in 13 hour 10 minute 19 second. Added bonus to that, Abu had fullfill his promise to break his previous IM record.

Abu finished his 3.8km swim in 1 hour 37 minute 46 second, his bike time also a new PR for him with 5 hour 37 minute 40 second and completed his marathon in 5 hour 37 minute 15 second.

With this new PR abu have 'pukul' all the fellas, and now become big taiko.

Hehehe....Congratulation!!!!
13 hour 10 minute 19 second

Thursday, February 26, 2009

My Pro Tour Calendar 2009

I have published my pro tour calendar for this year. This is all running and triathlon events that i will participate within this year. Some of the events like Putrajaya Ironman 70.3, Putrajaya Triathlon and Standard Chartered KL Marathon are still waiting for confirmation from the organiser. I hope there will be a positive news regarding this events because I am looking forward to complete all the events due to my Ironman 2010 preparations.

My cousin Abupower told me yesterday that, for Putrajaya Ironman 70.3, the organiser incharge for that event is LIAM. LIAM is Ironman Langkawi organiser. Wahh, this really surprised me!!. Abupower said that, now they already started to spread the words and during his Ironman 2009 briefing, that was held yesterday in Langkawi, the LIAM spokeperson already highlighted the events in his speech.

Great news from LIAM and I am really looking forward to this.

Ironman Langkawi 2009

Good luck to all participants for Ironman Langkawi 2009 especially my cousin Abu Soffian @ abupower.
Have a good races and please-please-please do take care!!!
Mina Gambaro!!!!Yashaaaaaaa!!!!
I will track you guys thru ironman.com live...

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Putrajaya 70.3 Ironman - Korang biar betul!!!!

Semalam aku ada telefon pegawai dari Perbadanan Putrajaya berkenaan event Putrajaya 70.3 Ironman yang dah kecoh di kalangan member-member triathlete. Memang event ni dah diiklankan dalam ironman 70.3 website. Siap ada gambar masjid Putrajaya sekali.

Menurut pegawai tersebut, pihak Perbadanan Putrajaya tidak menerima apa-apa kertas cadangan dari mana-mana pihak luar utk menganjurkan event ni. Pegawai tu bagitau aku, dia pun dah banyak terima panggilan telefon daripada orang ramai berhubung event ni. So far dia cakap, pihak Perbadanan Putrajaya masih lagi sedang dlm perbincangan dgn Mr Chan utk menganjurkan triathlon putrajaya pada 31 Oktober 2009 ni. Menurut pegawai ni event triathlon ni akan diadakan pada waktu malam. Kalau jadi, event ni akan start petang, peserta akan mula berenang pada lewat petang. Basikal dan larian akan berlansung pada waktu malam.

Si uncle Chan biar betul. Aku harap kalau jadi event ni, biar la start dlm pukul 5 ke 6 ke. Sekurang-kurangnya bole sembahyang maghrib kat transition area. Itu pun kalau tempat tu luas. Kalau dia start lambat jugak, amat menyusahkan bagi peserta muslim.
Harap-harap si uncle Chan ni fikir pasal ni.
Harap-harap ada positive news dari diorang...

Kuala Lumpur City 10K Run

Results : 0:52:26
Positions : 100th
Medal : Yes

Dah lama tak lari ikut route ni. Larian ini aku namakan KL Classic 10K Run. Paling last FTAA buat larian ikut route ni pada tahun 2007. Catatan masa aku dah merosot. Selalunya kalau route ni, masa aku dlm 48 minit. Itu pun masa tahun 2007. Ni dah merosot ni. Adehh, kena training kuat balik ni....
Nasib baik medal dapat. So far utk larian 10K yang bagi medal sikit, kalau medal dlm lingkungan 100-150, aku memang confident bole dapat.
So larian ni, derang bagi medal 300 utk category men open, jadi takder masalah utk aku dapat medal. Untuk aku measure speed larian aku, aku suka masuk larian yang bagi medal sikit. Bila dapat, memang rasa puas hati. Kalau larian yang bagi medal banyak, kadang-kadang aku masuk haram jer... Finish within qualifying time, kau training sikit, mesti bole dapat...