POAWP-Merentas Desa Terbuka MILO/MSSKL/POAWPKL Yang Ke 24 (15/02/2009)

It was a new experience to some of the KPAC members that took part in yesterday's cross country.Only three of us ran the course few years back and we could not recall much of how tough and rough the route was.

Many turned up as usual, early in the morning especially the school children.A one lap speed racing of 2.3 km (kids dash) was organised for these children to promote and encourage youngsters to be active in running.

As for the older ones,this cross country event was far less challenging compared to the Genting trail blazer.Nevertheless many admittedly cheated on the short cuts that went unmanned.

The race was gunned off batch by batch to avoid congestion especially at the jungle trail up on the Bukit Tunku hill.It was an 8 km run for the men open category and they started the race followed 10 minutes later by the the 6 km run for the women,men junior,boys and girls categories.

What surprised me yesterday was the usage of time chip system here.It was an improvement for FTAAA and they should be praised for their awareness of accurate time recording and avoid cheatings,of course.

About 10 of us were there and we were mostly made up of young runners.Only Khoo Thiem Seng and me were in the veteran category.It is a good sign for the KPAC as the club needs badly young runners.


The young and fast improving runners.From L to R:Syanizam,Tee Choon Wooi,Loi Hin Kai and Kee Weng Keong

Our best performer yesterday was none other than Seah Bee Lian.Although it was a first time for her but she made us proud with her excellent run and emerged third in the women open category.

Results at glance

Men open 8 km
No:077--46m 45s---Kee Weng Keong
No:091--53m 36s---Tee Choon Wooi
No:000--56m 30s---Syanizam
No:000--56m 31s---Khoo Kian Wei

Women Open 6 km
No:003--47m 02s---Seah Bee Lian

Men Junior Veteran 6 km
No:035--43m 35s---Loi Hin Kai
No:057--46m 39s---Tee Kuan Meng
No:062--47m 24s---Leong Ann Lok

Men Senior Veteran 6 km
No:000--47m 32s---Khoo Thiem Seng

The KPAC would like to wish all its members,friends and fellow runners

A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS CHINESE NEW YEAR

GONG XI FA CAI
KEONG HEE HUAT CHYE

message from board of committee members

Great Eastern Pacesetters 30km - 18/1/2009

By far,this event still enjoyed good response.The organiser's established reputation as the largest running club in Malaysia could be the attribution to this successful race.It was supposed to be the preparation ground for runners who wish to take part in the Kuala Lumpur International Marathon which is usually schedule in March each year.As understood,this year's KLIM has been postponed to mid of the year.

But the standard and quality of organising this GE20/30 began to deteriorate.The ambience was quiet and the starting point was dimly lit.Runners were seen walking aimlessly as there was no indication when the race would be flagged off.It was already 6.15am and still no sign.

Out of a sudden,the anxious moment was abrupted when without any warning,the sound of air horn being released to officially mark the start of the 30km race.Those at the back of the line might not even realize the race has started!

There were some changes to this year's route and it was far more challenging compared to the previous.There were adequate water stations but short of distance markers.Traffic were perfectly manned and many were caught surprise by the long hills and slopes.

Our best runners still overshadowed by the foreigners.The Kenyans,Japanese,Moroccan and many others were a class above and we,the locals failed to break their dominance.The Kenyans especially,won all the categories they contested in.

As for the KPAC,only a handful of our members took part and we enjoyed our run here.

Below are the few results l had managed to compile:

Men Open 30km
No:010--2h 10m 53s---Ng Swee Yee
No:079--2h 40m 03s---Kee Weng Keong
No:000--3h 33m 12s---Seah Leong Hong
No:000--3h 55m 13s---Lim Chong Ping

Men Junior Veteran 30km
No:000--2h 21m 40s---Wong Soon Pin
No:000--3h 02m 36s---Seah Leong San
No:000--3h 36m 21s---Tee Kuan Meng

Women Open 30km
No:000--2h 58m 17s---Seah Bee Lian
No:000--3h 38m 45s---Sia Lay Cheng

Men Open 20km
No:000--1h 50m 34s---Leong Ann Lok
No:000--2h 02m 50s---Syanizam B Ismail
No:000--2h 09m 26s---Kamaruzaman

For top 5 results of each category please click here

KLAVA - Back To Nature Relay - 11/1/09

Taman Metropolitan Batu
Jalan Ipoh,Kuala Lumpur


Relay competition becomes more and more popular nowadays.Even non competitive event like this KLAVA organised 'Back To Nature Relay' attracted more than 30 teams including those from outstations and school students.And surprisingly many good runners took part too.

To add excitement to this relay competition,many fast runners chose among themselves to form the best teams to challenge each other.The mixed teams made up the most participation.

Our team is the defending champion in the men open.We won the title last September through our triplet of Ng Swee Yee,Jayakumar and Vigneswaran.Today we sent two teams to battle it out in the same category.We expect tough challenge from SMK Bukit Mewah-last year's runner up ,SMK Mambau and also some local teams.We didn't send any representative to defend our junior veteran title due to some complications.

Our first team named as KPAC 1 consist of Jayakumar as captain,Ng Swee Yee and new comer Jagdev Singh and the second team,KPAC 2 were made up of Naresh Kumar as captain,Murali Nathan and Richard Habeeya.Richard replaced Gunaseelan as the first runner as the latter is busy attending to some business outstations.


Group photo before the battle

Naresh,Murali and Guna are our latest recruitment.They joined us last week and the club is more than delighted to have this three talented runners.We welcome more new members to join us.

The battle began when Richard lead the way in the first lap followed closely by one mascular crew cut hair style runner which we suspect is an army from RAMD -Regimen Askar Melayu Diraja.KPAC 1 was just a few metre behind.

When the batons changed hand,KPAC 1 second runner,Jayakumar quickly closing the gap and overtook the runner infront but failed to topple Murali as leader.It was all the way for the KPAC teams to outdo each other.Naresh's lead was short lived when this young Jagdev overtook him in the mid of final lap.KPAC 1 retains the title while KPAC 2 pushed school runners SMK Bukit Mewah to third place.The school boys clocked an improved 39m 26s.


This is the fastest team,young and energetic:From R to L:Jayakumar,Ah Yee and Jagdev Singh


The second best,clocked the second fastest time.From R to L:Richard,Murali and Naresh


This relay attracted this team from Sri Garden School which is represented by three young cute looking girls


Group photo:KPAC members and the Negeri Sembilan's schools runners


Richard Habeeya in action-the first to hand over the baton to his mate,Murali Nathan


Jagdev sped to the finishing line to defend our title


Ah Yee,as first runner was trailing in third position.

Below are the split timings of our teams that emerged victorious in this morning's relay.

KPAC 1:
00m 00s --12m 40s ---Ng Swee Yee
12m 40s -- 25m 37s ---Jayakumar
25m 37s -- 38m 45s ---Jagdev Singh

KPAC 2
00m 00s --12m 23s ---Richard Habeeya
12m 23s -- 25m 00s ---Murali Nathan
25m 00s -- 39m 16s ---Naresh Kumar

Der Pacemakers Network Run 2009 - 1/1/09

This event was also known as New Year Run was organised by the Pacemakers Network,raised the curtain of local running calender at Taman Tasik Perdana last week.It was a small and simple race and did not offer any prize money to the winners however it managed to attract many runners.About 150 participated in this run which was divided into several categories.

Many runners and volunteers turned up as early as 6.00am to give a helping hand to the organiser.Time chip system which gains popularity lately was used here to ensure every runner has a fair run and also to minimise man power.

The atmosphere was more like a big family gathering and allowed runners to get to know each other better.Mr Kelvin, the Pacemakers' spokeman gave a briefing on the running route and water station before the race and of course he hilariously filled the air with laughter.


The proud moment,our runners showing off their hard earned trophies

The KPAC was proud to become one of their co-sponsor by contributed some sports products for the lucky draw contest.Our president was honoured to be invited to give away the prizes to the all lucky winners.

A total of 6 KPAC members took part in two different categories.Three were in the men below 29 age group and another three in the 40 to 49 yrs age group. Our most outstanding runner was this young talent, lanky Jagdev Singh who is only 16.His effort won him a trophy in the most challenging group and he managed to dip below 1 hour for this 13.8 km run.We are proud of him.


KPAC members and friends.From L to R:Dhan Bahadur,Ah Yee,Kee,Guna,Suresh,Wong and Naresh.In squatting position is Jagdev Singh.

Below are some photographs by courtesy of Pmtey

Jagdev Singh


Wong Soon Pin

Kee Weng Keong


Dhan Bahadur


Ng Swee Yee

Results at glance:

Men 29 yrs and below
No:002--56m 15s---Ng Swee Yee
No:006--59m 55s---Jagdev Singh
No:017--67m 54s---Kee Weng Keong

Men 40 to 49 yrs
No:003--61m 04s---Dhan Bahadur
No:005--63m 07s---Wong Soon Pin
No:019--77m 02s---Tee Kuan Meng

For full results please click here

BBT Community Run - 21/12/2008

This small community run was very well co-organised by WCT-the Bandar Bukit Tinggi project developer and Persatuan Penduduk Bandar Bukit Tinggi 1 & 2 (PPBBT I & II).It attracted few hundreds participant mainly residing in this housing area and some regular faces in the running community too.

Registration was still open and the emcee repetitiously announce until the very last minute of the run.


From L to R: Ruben,Naresh,Murali,Vigneswaran and Jayakumar


From L to R: Tee Choon Wooi,Siow Kek Keong,Kee Weng Keong,Loi Hin Kai and Ooi Kok Soon


Participants gathered at the starting point under the hot sun

The sponsors were hypermarkets-Giant,Tesco and Jaya Jusco,CIMB bank,herbal products dealer and distributor HAI O,Erke-sports products retailer,Diamond Master Filter,Milo as official sports drink and many more.

The Klang's traffic police department and Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia-Klang's district were there to set up exhibition booths on road safety awareness and also the dengue epidemic.




Many thronged the exhibitions by traffic police

The VIPs arrived shortly before the race and the committees lead by organising chairman Mr Rasagopal were there to welcome the guest of honour,YB Tuan Ean Yong Hian Wah who is the Selangor DAP chairman and also a Selangor state exco member accompanied by Mr Tee Boon Hock,an MPK councillor.


This is YB Ean Yong-Selangor state Exco member addressing the crowd


A photo for remembrance-The VIPs and the organising committees before the race was gunned off


Ms Pauline of Erke sports explaining their products to eager participants

The race was slightly delayed for no apparent reason,was flagged off by YB at 8.15am for the men open followed by the rest of the categories which covered a shorter running distance.


The medals and souvenirs


Big hampers for lucky draw winners sponsored by hypermarkets

For a short 7 km run,the favorites surged to the front immediately to lead,chased by hundreds who eventually fallen behind due to the scorching heat.It was a quite fast pace as the front runners were all equally potential runners.The KPAC top guns,Pacesetters' and some school district runners quickly occupied the top positions.

Our representatives,Vigneswaran and Jayakumar managed to win the first and third placing respectively.Surprisingly KPAC junior veteran runner,Siow Kek Keong grabbed the fifth placing.There was a dispute in the age grouping where the open categories comprised runners up to 49 years old.The olders are of course,no way can challenge the younger ones.



Vigneswaran-the champion receiving cash rewards from YB


Jayakumar-3rd placing


Murali Nathan-4th placing


Siow kek Keong-5th placing

As for the women open category,favorites Ms Michelle Tan Bee Kiang bagged the first place easily leaving another fast runner,G.Susila 200m trailing behind.Her fantastic pace can easily outrun many male runners.Our sole representative in this category,Lim Pei Yin was way behind at 6th position.Many runners were unaware of check points and were caught cheating through many short cuts in this residential area and they were disqualified immediately after the race.


G Susila and Michelle Tan

Results at glance:

Men Open (16yrs - 49yrs) - 7 km
001--29m 07s---Vigneswaran
003--29m 30s---Jayakumar
004--30m 15s---Murali Nathan
005--33m 24s---Siow Kek Keong
008--33m 59s---Naresh Kumar
010--35m 38s---Tee Choon Hooi
012--37m 35s---Loi Hin Kai
014--37m 56s---Kee Weng Keong
015--38m 11s---Tee Kuan Meng
017--38m 49s---Kumar
020--39m 06s---Ganesh
023--41m 29s---Ooi Kok Soon

Women Open (16yrs - 49yrs) - 4 km
001--15m 05s---Michelle Tan Bee Kiang
002--16m 23s---G Susila
006--23m 15s---Lim Pei Yin

BBT Community Run-2008

Date: 21 December 2008 (Sunday)
Reporting time:0700 hrs
Venue: Parking Lot, AEON Bukit Tinggi (Jusco),Bandar Bukit Tinggi 2,Klang
Registration fee:RM10.00 for Veteran/Female/Children - RM15.00 for Male

Please contact our representatives for assistance: Kam - 016 3809316/Kanesan - 012 2000292/Kasinathan - 019 3526027/Rasagopal - 019 3551029/Gan - 016 6613003/Saw - 012 3898008/Dr.Fang - 019 3329467/Richard Lim - 012 3183288/Mr Teoh - 019 3160083/Mr Goh - 012 6892332/Mr Joseph - 012 2951905

or log into our homepage at http://www.dapat.net/ppbbt for more informations and entry form

Category:
Veteran (above 50 yrs old) - 4 km
Female (16-50 yrs old) - 4 km
Children (Boys 12 - 15 yrs old) - 4 km
Children (Girls 12 15 yrs old) - 4 km
Male (16 - 50 yrs old) - 7 km

Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon - 07/12/2008

Ng Swee Yee made us proud with his impressive run in the recent SCSM.In his SMS to me yesterday,he claimed that he was Malaysia's third fastest runner,clocking 3hr 28min 40sec.He was positioned at 130 amongst more than 11,000 marathoners! Well,congratulation to him.


Ah Yee as he is fondly known in action in the recent Mizuno Wave Run

Meanwhile Jayakumar,our hopeful and most promising runner failed miserably.He struggled to finish the race to clock a dismay 5hr 43min 03sec.His timing was way out from his usual ability to run under 4hr. Only few weeks ago he recorded an incredibly fast 3hr 18min 55sec in the Penang Bridge International Marathon.