Quote of the day...

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight." 

- Khalil Gibran -

One of my favourite authors...

I'd like to think that there's a blessing in disguise for every hitch that I am going or have gone through... :)

Just gotta keep on going with your life and have happy thoughts always, even when all you want to do is just curl up on the bed... 

Happy Tuesday peeps! :)

T-19 days!!! And I haven't done my long run yet! Eeek! I can do this! ;) 

Road to Paris...

Paris is just about 4 Sundays away now... And when I decided to replace KD for the marathon, I know that I don't have much time to train...

But I guess you do all you can right? ;)

So, my trainings so far for the month:
Week 1:
Monday - 6.6km (Lembah Kiara Park TTDI)
Saturday - 7km (Happymill)
Sunday - 10.1 (Lembah Kiara Park and The Hills)

Week 2
Wednesday - 5km (Happymill)
Sunday - Bareno Run 21km (Bukit Jalil)

Coupled with a weekly dance class and mixed futsal session, I think my legs are doing good so far... :)

The plan is to do a 25-30km run this Saturday morning, just not sure where yet... Either happymill (boring!) or BA/FRIM...

Maybe a sub-5 at a happy pace is possible... Who knows? :)

T-24 days!!! :D

Nothing Lasts Forever...

"Modern technology

Owes ecology

An apology."

- Alan M. Edisson - 

I'm sure all of you guys and girlies have been reading and watching the news of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan...

And it's only the third month of the year... :( 

In times like these, we (the Malaysians and other disaster-free countries' readers respectively) should be grateful and thankful to God that we're not experiencing such catastrophes in our very own backyard...

And it's a good time to reflect on ourselves too... Both good and bad...

So, let us all pray to heal our earth and also to the victims in Japan...

Kudos to the Japanese peeps for being so united and grounded during this trying time...

Earthquake victims line up outside a supermarket in Shiogama

Picture credits to Jiji Press/AFP/Getty Images

Taken from Time

And to my Muslim friends, let's do our part and sedekah Al-Fatihah and Surah Yassin to the world...

Bismillah...

Killer Hills @ Bareno Run 21km...

Well, they didn't call Bukit Jalil for nothing alright! ;)

I did one of the big no-nos the night before running a race - I had spicy food for dinner... I didn't think about it til' I was halfway indulging my chili crab...  :P

And with only less than 4 hours of sleep, I felt the burning in my tummy...

Woke up at 4am to get ready and was at the stadium by 515am...  Bumped into my penyeri + oprah lady Nyna and we walked to the starting line to find the usual suspects: Kak Nawal, Rosey and Viki...

See how sleepy we both looked?!
Pic credits to Nyna

The 21km runners were flagged off at 530am... So we were pretty much running in the dark... Bumped into the Speed Queen Shanaz, Metal King Khairul Anuar and Mamil Victim Ray at the first couple of kms... Too fast la you all! ;)

I was still feeling the burning sensation on my tummy and I was praying hard that there would be no toilet incident... Hehe... 

I recently recovered from an allergy reaction and I told myself that this will be a sweet LSD for me before my Par-ee marathon... So I was happily running at my own pace... And the fact that both my feet was experiencing foot cramps wasn't funny at all... Felt supernumb for a while there... 

I don't know whether it was my Asics shoes (that I've been using for all of my races since April last year) or that my feet are just on a strike that morning... Hmmm... 

That was until I saw the hills... Dum dum dummmmm... 

In my head was like: Should I just run or walk through them? Contemplated for a good 10 secs and decided to walk through them... Hehe I know... Lazy :P 

I was really grateful that the weather was just perfect yesterday... I guess that's the advantage of starting a race much earlier... 

I was pretty happy that I pretty much run (at a fun pace of course *wink*) all the way til the finishing line after the hills... And it was so good to bump into my fellow 10km-ers as we 'collided' at the last 5km of the route...

I charged at my last 2km of the route and of course posed for Mr Tey at the last 1km... Always making time for the camera ;)

Trying out an agogo pose ;P 

I think I need to shrink my arms a bit :P 

I was asked to do this pose k! :P
Thanks for the pics Tey! 

I was happy to complete the run (as I expected) in 2 hours 25 mins (unofficial time) :D

Finished in 54th place in my category... Not bad eyy ;) 
Got a nice finisher tee to add into the collection! :)

Not a PB but there's always another day insyaAllah to PB a half marathon right? ;)

It was so good to see and chit chat with the usual runners since this is the first running event for most of the pelaris... 

Oh, not to forget.. bercamwhore as usual ;)

With Kak Nawal - She completed her 21km in 2 hours 7 mins!

Awesomeness! One day I'll beat you.. :P
Pic credits to Kak Nawal

With the super runners! :)

With Rosey and Nyna

Both of them completed the race with a fellow bootcamper, Viki in 2 hours 39 mins... :)

More group shots with the awesome runners:

Pic credits to Nyna

With the usual faces... You'll definitely see them at any running event ;)

 

With Balqis and her friend...

Loved the hat! Salute! ;)
Pic credits to Balqis

With Pui San and Ijam - Oversmiling la someone :P
Pic credits to Yim

Another fun morning it was! Congrats to all of the runners! :D 

Next: Marathon De Paris - My 3rd full marathon on my birthday :) 

Blessed :)

When I bought my return ticket to Paris, I dropped a couple of hints to my parents previously on my intention... And since they didn't respond to it, I thought they gave me the green light... ;)

My father finally realised that I was REALLY going last Saturday and both my parents knew that I needed to 'runaway' from the country for a number of reasons...

So it was really nice to see how my parents are being supersupportive and sweet about my spontaneous decision to go to Paris by giving me tips and places to go... And probably donations for my buys over there... Haha... Well I can always play the birthday card right? :P

It'll be my first time celebrating my birthday abroad since 2007 and I'm pretty sure that this one will be one of the most memorable ones... :)

Oh, and I have to mention this on my blog as well... Since I'll be running as Miss KD, I wanted to pay the fees for the marathon... But, she quickly brushed it off and gave it away as my birthday present...

And since I'll be bunking with superlaju Shanaz and she has done her hotel bookings much earlier on, I offered to pay my share for the accommodation... She told me over the weekend that it'll be her birthday present for me...

Such sweet running friends I have right? :)

I'm just so overwhelmed and blessed with such amazing family & running friends... Alhamdulillah :)

Exactly a month to go before my birthday marathon... I haven't been really well and haven't slept much for the past 2 weeks hence the lack of entries on my blog... I hope my body will recover a 100% for my trainings before I leave...

I really can't wait... :)

Low Mileage

According to my dailymile, I only ran a total of 12km last month...

Eeeeek!!!

MAJOR RED ALERT!!!

But hey, I was training for bootcamp and played futsal every week... So I shouldn't feel so guilty right? *wink*

I am so going to be extra rajin this month and try to hit between 50-60km this month so prepare myself for my birthday marathon... More LSDs during the weekend then!

Oh, by the way... I have yet to google on places to go in Paris...

So, suggestions are welcomed by all of you readers here on places/restaurants to go in Paris...

I want to celebrate with my medal at a super cozy  (+ yummy) place...

Appreciate it! :)

Paris, j'etaime :)

Thanks for the feedbacks from my blog, Facebook and Twitter (the power of social networks...Hehe)...

It took me about 2 weeks to decide on this, but then how can you say no to running a marathon on your birthday right? :D

So yeah... Marathon de Paris, here I come!!!

WOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!

And I'll have this chica to be my tour-guide since it'll be my first time to the City of L♥ve :)

It will be a nice change to celebrate my birthday somewhere else this year since I really need a getaway...

I can't wait to see the beautiful architectures, bags (I am a girl afterall *wink*), and eat those yummy pastries that I've been watching in movies or the food channel :D

And it's 39 days away (gulp!) so I need to keep on running until then... And brush up my French with my mom since she used to study there for her degree... Hehe...

I need to plan my outfit for the marathon too!!! Suggestions are welcomed ;)

J'ai hâte qu'on aille à Paris! ;) 

(Translation: Can't wait until we go to Paris!)