New Balance Pacesetters 15km 2008

This is one of my favorite race event.Very well and professionally organised l must say.Beautiful and unique designed of finisher medals await every participants at the finishing line.Photographers busy clicking away their cameras to capture the most beautiful pose of runners to be included into the certificate of participations.

Road marshals and police traffic were busy manning every corners of the running route.Warm smiles and words of encouragement motivated runners to push all the ways through the hilly terrain.

There were approximately 1500 runners took part in this event-as announced by the new Pacesetters Athlete Club Malaysia president-En Rustam Affandi Zaihan through his loud hailer just before he flagged off the race.A sea of runners can be seen at the starting line if you stand in the front with the elite runners from foreign countries as well as our local fast ones.The starting point had been moved to the back of Padang Merbok instead of the usual spot descending the Jalan Parlimen.


From L-R:Khoo Kian Wei,his father-Thiem Seng,Lim Sam Hang(KPAC committee member) and me.

The route chosen for this race was one of the most challenging l've experienced.It was tough right from the beginning as the road ascending for about 1 km.There were two water stations at 5 and 10 km mark.Below is the unique shoe-shape designed of finisher medal.



Results at glance:

Category Men Open

No:005--00 57m 05s---Vigneswaran

No:113--1h 22m 44s---Tee Choon Wooi
No:122--1h 24m05s----Kee Weng Keong

No:134--1h 24m 49s---Chandra
No:141--1h 25m 18s---Leong Ann Lok
No:153--1h 26m 25s---Khoo Kian Wei
No:199--1h 31m 33s---Chua Chin Huee
No:308--1h 41m 53s---Kamaruzaman

Category Women Open
No:06--1h 14m 47s---Thalagavathy
No:11--1h 20m 15s---Seah Bee Lian

Category Men Junior Veteran
No:007--1h 02m 56s---Dhan Bahadur
No:022--1h 10m 18s---Wong Soon Pin
No:044--1h 16m 37s---Zainuddin
No:073--1h 21m 15s---Khoo Thiem Seng
No:110--1h 26m 17s---Tee Kuan Meng
No:115--1h 27m 05s---Lim Sam Hang