My Running Partner

When I'm not running on my treadmill at home, I usually run at TTDI park with:

Rose

and 

Mr Adabi :P

It's fun and motivational to run with a partner... You'll forget that you are there to train for your next run/half marathon/marathon knowing that you have someone running with you and have such fun conversing with them while running (at times)... 

Hence, today I will be sharing a campaign that was done by Asics in 2007 called "My Running Partner" :)

My running partner has eight arms (referring to the four people rowing in the background)

My running partner makes me run with two plastic bags (referring to the dog and its activities)

My running partner is my evil twin

My running partner and I have never met 

Pics taken from here

You can check out and join their website called Your Running Partner, where it's a community of 6 runner-bloggers that will help you with anything to do with running... 

If any one of you out there are thinking about running for the first time, grab a friend or your lover or your dad/mom to run with you at the park... (I used to drag my dad to jog with me at the park a few years back :P) 

Trust me, it'll be much easier than running on your own when you've just started ;)

Have a good weekend everyone! :)

Coca Cola Village

Just had to share with all of you here on this supercool idea that Coca Cola has done in Israel in collaboration with Facebook...

Thanks to my colleague, Juliet for sharing this :)



I am not really a big fan of Coke (and Israel of course!) but I thought the concept was brilliantly executed and I wouldn't mind living in this village and share real-time experiences...

Aahhhh, the power of technology ;)

Quote of the day

"You don't run against a bloody stop watch, do you hear? A runner runs against himself, against the best that's in him. Not against a dead thing of wheels and pulleys. That's the way to be great, running against yourself. Against all the rotten mess in the world. Against God, if you're good enough."

-Bill Persons, fictional coach in Hugh Atkinson's The Game-

That's right, fictional coach! ;)

But I can't help it if I keep on checking out my watch on the timing though... It's the kiasu runner in me... Hehe... 

On the running against God bit, too far fetched for moi... :P 

Runners I Met & Liked

I recently got myself this supercute Archie Grand notebook from one of my favourite stores, Old Blossom Box Store:

Pic taken from here (since I can't upload pics!)

The website even has a how-to-have-fun-with-a-journal page... Click here to check it out... Too cute!!!

There are other cute and funny cover titles to tickle your fancy for the notebook:

Pic taken from here

I am going to start bringing this notebook to all of the running events that I'm going to participate in and get you runners out there to sign or write about themselves in it...

Guess I'll be approaching any one of you from now onwards... Or you can always voluntarily come up to me too ;)

Maybe I should get myself a mini polaroid camera so that I could include photos in it...

Hmmmm... ;)

miCoach

Happy Friday to all of you! :)

I'm sure most of you out there has heard about miCoach from adidas...

It's something similar to Nike +'s sporting band that I have...

I have yet to try on their running shoes... Anyone out there, if you've tried them on, do let me know how they are k? :)

Here's the TVC on this coaching product from adidas:



If the product is as interactive as it's been told on the TVC, I wouldn't mind trying them AFTER one of my two running shoes goes kaputttt!!! ;)

I am looking forward to this weekend as I will get to go to the Param (Pasar Ramadan) for the first time! Sad I know... Hehe...

Have a good weekend everyone! :)

The Countdown Has Begun!

My bestie in Melbourne, Dhitry bb-ed me and told me that this has arrived in her mailbox:

My first marathon running bib has arrived! *Gulp*

And I realised that I have 58 more days to train 'til THE DAY... *Gulp*  

Well, NO excuses from now onwards!!!

Will definitely going to push myself and train hard for this insyaAllah... Even throughout this month...

Dear God, I hope that You will give me the strength to train and run as much as I can during this holy month, pretty pleaseeeeeeeeee!!! :S

White and Denim

It was OBC Bandar Utama's 2nd Graduation Party last Monday night...

And the title of my post was the theme for the party...

The party was held at Duke Bar & Restaurant, TTDI Plaza...

Pic credits to Rosey

For the month of July, I only went to 2 out of 6 sessions (since I was concentrating on running)... *Bad bad Nana*

Hence, I didn't really know most of the bootcampers there... *Padan muka*

Ody and I (Sarge Dann's beau)

Nyna and I

We were the last ones to reach Low's Peak, Mt Kinabalu last week! ;)

With Sarge Dann (the head instructor for OBC Bandar Utama), Nyna and Kak Nawal

The food was quite good and reasonable... I had Rib Eye steak (coz I was crazing for meat!)... 

It was a double celebration for me as my friends from the KK trip came as well! :)

The BF finally came to the Graduation Party! :P 

With the BF, Suriana, Adibah and Nyna

With the BF, Shaz and Adibah

Our porter/guide Syafiq had a major crush on Adibah and only wanted to take pics of/with her :P

After having our dinner, we had the certificate-giving ceremony for the bootcampers for the month of July:

With Doc Malek, Abe Yaz and Sarge Dann



With the BU Bravo's bootcampers
HOOYAH!!!

I was super excited for this party because I was waiting for these babies to be in my possession:

With Ili (our organiser for the trip)

Got my certs from the Mt. Kinabalu climb!!!

The BF with his certs

Pics above credit to Ody and Rosey

Those that managed to climb to the peak got 2 coloured certificates...

The BF and I with our certs! :D

Close-up on the certs...

My dadaa is planning to climb next year in April... Maybe I shall follow him and do round #2 :)

Can't believe that it has been a week since my trip... Need to climb somewhere soon! :P

I would like to take this opportunity to wish 'Selamat Berpuasa' to all of the Muslim runners/bloggers/readers out there...

And I would like apologise to anyone that I might have unintentionally offended through my writings on this blog yeah... 

May this holy month brings out the best in each and every one of you :)