The Wettest Run @ Penang Bridge International Marathon...

Indeed it was...

Drove my hot rod to Penang on Saturday morning with these lovely girls to pick up the my race pack...

Roadtrip!!! Woohooo!!!

Scorching hot day it was!!!

Met this lady who's working from Athlete's Circle store at Jaya One and decided to do a running pose with her:

With Jolene from Athlete's Circle..

She was the 5:30hr pacer for the marathon...

The half marathon started at 315am for us ladies and I only managed to get 2 hours of sleep before that since the guests from a wedding that was held in the hotel were making lots of noises outside of the room... *Yawn*

We had to get up early to get to the starting point since the roads leading up to the bridge and Queensbay Mall were closed at 1am...

By the time we managed to find a parking, the men's category was about to be flagged off at 3am...

Camwhored before we started running since all of us were pretty much sleepy and there was nothing else better to do :P

Trying to keep myself awake by doing odd poses at 3am :P

Wearing my new Skins bought in Melbie ;)

With Rosey....

With the other half marathoners...

Baba and Marlin were doing their first half marathon! Two thumbs up!

I told myself that this will be a slow and easy peasy run for me since I didn't wanna overexert myself and that Marathon Singapore is just 2 weeks away...

So I ran pretty much at a lazy pace for the first 10km of the route...

AND THEN...

It started to rain so heavily after I u-turned at the bridge... Dum dum dum...

I was in a way grateful that it rained as the heavy downpours motivated me to run faster and complete the half marathon as fast as I can...

So I ran like a mad woman trying to shield herself from the rain.... I desperately wanted to complete the run since I was afraid that I would get asthma attack...

Until I saw my fellow half marathon virgin/bootcamper/friend Ody at the last 2km... She was slowing down and I decided to motivate her and quickly grabbed her hand so that we could finish the half marathon together-gether... Hehe...

Obviously, there were stares and comments when we were holding hands while running... So typical... Jealous is it? :P

Pushed her til' the finish line and we completed the race in 2 hours 21 mins (official time)!!!

Not a PB for me but I'm so glad that I managed to push myself to run like a mad woman with the heavy rain conditions... And that I helped out my friend to complete her first half marathon :)

Oh, and getting soaked and wet in the rain is a lot of fun ;)

Gambars after the run:

Ody and I...

Congrats babe for completing your first 21km with a superb timing! :)

With fellow Dailymilers and our medals....

Azhar (super human this guy is!) completed his 21km in 1 hour 37 mins... Gila!

Selly completed her 21km in 2 hours 22 mins...

Marlin (21km virgin) completed hers in 2 hours 9 mins (Super awesome timing and congrats girl!)

Fiki completed his in 2 hours 3 mins (Another kiasu runner!)

With fellow bootcampers from OBC Bandar Utama....

Hooyah to all of you!!! :)

The lovely supporters that waited for us to complete our runs... :)

Major congrats to Baba for completing her first 21km in 3 hours 18 mins even with her busted knees!!!

Sooooo proud of you!!! :)

With my fellow penyeri Shaz who completed her 10km in 1 hour 19 mins (a PB for her)! :)

It was definitely a run to remember as PBIM marked my sixth and final half marathon for the year... 

Oh, and the fact that my best friend of 17 years was there to see me complete a run for the first time :)

My new agent :P

Next: Standard Chartered Marathon Singapore - My 2nd full marathon :)