No huge canopies,no sophisticated blasting sound system and no live performances by local artistes or warm up session by fitness instructors yet the running atmosphere was there.There were many teams signed up for this simple road relay race organized by 3R Circle at Taman Metropolitan Batu,Kuala Lumpur this morning.
The KPAC would like to thank Mr Peter Goh,one of the organizing committee for helping us to register and even help us to name our teams-Klang Pacer 1 (men open) and Klang Pacer 2 (men junior veteran).Klang Pacer 1 comprised of Ng Swee Yee as first runner,Jayakumar as second and Vigneswaran as final runner wherelse Klang Pacer 2 was represented by Wong Soon Pin,Maniarasu and Ter Yew Tiong.
It was a beautiful sunny Sunday morning when participants began to arrive at the venue as early as 6.30 am.Although this is Puasa month,but there were many hardcore Muslim runners turned up to take part.A big applause should be given to them for their running spirit.
The KPAC runners.From left to right:Ter Yew Tiong,Wong Soon Pin,Maniarasu,Jayakumar,NgSwee Yee and Vigneswaran.
There was a slight delay for the start because of some last minute alterations and running bibs were given once the runners signed on the registration form.There were 5 categories for this race namely men open,men junior veteran,men senior veteran,women open and mixed team.
All categories were flagged off simultaneously.First runner of SMK Bukit Mewah of Negeri Sembilan,Dhiban Raj gave his team an early lead followed closely by R.Nanchappan of Cool Runners(senior veteran category) and our runner,Ng Swee Yee came in third before the baton change hand.Once Jayakumar got hold of the baton,he quickly closed the gap and eventually took over the lead after 1 km run and passed the baton to our final runner,Vigneswaran who returned to the finishing line unchallenged with a combined time of 39m 43s.
As for our junior veteran team,Ter and Maniarasu replaced Dhan Bahadur and Zainuddin.Dhan was down with dengue fever and Zainuddin cited that he was not physically prepared and lack of confidence.But our team performed equally well and emerged champions too in their category eventhough they lost to the senior veteran champions-the Cool Runners by merely 20 meters behind.
This is the second relay competition that KPAC took part this year.We hope to take part more in the future to gain some exposures and experience on how to organize one.
Credits should be given to all the organizing committees for their exemplary effort especially Ms Julie Wong. Her powerful voice could be heard distant away, jokingly threaten to disqualify excited runners that blocked the running path.Although there were some grouses over some misunderstandings such as delay in distributing the drinking water to those completed the race early,generally we KPAC runners enjoyed the race very much.
For full results please click here
There was a slight delay for the start because of some last minute alterations and running bibs were given once the runners signed on the registration form.There were 5 categories for this race namely men open,men junior veteran,men senior veteran,women open and mixed team.
All categories were flagged off simultaneously.First runner of SMK Bukit Mewah of Negeri Sembilan,Dhiban Raj gave his team an early lead followed closely by R.Nanchappan of Cool Runners(senior veteran category) and our runner,Ng Swee Yee came in third before the baton change hand.Once Jayakumar got hold of the baton,he quickly closed the gap and eventually took over the lead after 1 km run and passed the baton to our final runner,Vigneswaran who returned to the finishing line unchallenged with a combined time of 39m 43s.
As for our junior veteran team,Ter and Maniarasu replaced Dhan Bahadur and Zainuddin.Dhan was down with dengue fever and Zainuddin cited that he was not physically prepared and lack of confidence.But our team performed equally well and emerged champions too in their category eventhough they lost to the senior veteran champions-the Cool Runners by merely 20 meters behind.
This is the second relay competition that KPAC took part this year.We hope to take part more in the future to gain some exposures and experience on how to organize one.
Credits should be given to all the organizing committees for their exemplary effort especially Ms Julie Wong. Her powerful voice could be heard distant away, jokingly threaten to disqualify excited runners that blocked the running path.Although there were some grouses over some misunderstandings such as delay in distributing the drinking water to those completed the race early,generally we KPAC runners enjoyed the race very much.
For full results please click here
Men Junior veteran champion:Our president receiving the champion's trophy from one of the organizing committee.Beside him are Ter Yew Tiong and Maniarasu.
Ter is admiring the champions' trophy
The mixed team champions-Der Pacemakers Network KL
Team Charlie Angel 2 represented by Klang's PACM members.Second from left is Lee Foo Kien,Albert Goh and captain Lim Tow Suan
This is the team that gave an early fright to all the competitors especially ours'-SMK Bukit Mewah.They are all form four students.Far right is Mr Dorai,the person who is responsible to bring these young potential runners all the way from Negeri Sembilan to take part.According to him,his boys are new to road relay competition and promise to train them harder and expose them to more competitive races.
2 comments:
Thank you for supporting our relay. This was the 5th time we organised a relay event which has been most sought after and have loyal followers.
It is not the superstar singer, fancy decoration or materials thing that set the atmosphere of an event. It is the passion and the right attitude back up with a clear objective which determine the success of the event.
Here, I would also like to wish your club every success in your coming race.
best wishes
julie wong
http://juewong.blogspot.com
Jue,
A very good job done indeed.We,the KPAC, is looking forward to your next event and we will definitely send our representatives and give our fullest support.
Kmtee
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