Sukan G - It's Finally Here!

To all of my workoutholic girlfriends and readers,

Our 'baby' is finally here!!! And it's alive and kicking!!!

Sukan G (Sukan is Sport in my native language and G stands for well... Girls) is thrilled to bring you stylish apparels and accessories while you're sweating it out!

My partners and I love to dress up and look good before we hit the gym or go out for a run! And that's how our 'baby' was born :)

We are so proud to share our 'baby' with all of you after months of working hard on this!

Do check out our Facebook page by clicking at the badge on the left side of this blog or you can click here...

You can also follow us on Twitter at @SukanGirls

We can't wait to share on what we've to offer to you pretty ladies!!! :)

Oh, and for our friends and readers here in KL:

The email add again is sukan(dot)girls@gmail.com

Come and join the fun! :) 

Sukan G :)

Something that I've been working very hard on for the past 10 months or so :)

Remember I posted this back in April?

Had a few glitches on this... 

But Alhamdulillah... We managed to pull through it... 

What is life without challenges, eyy? ;)

 SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO..........

My partners and I are happy to announce that we are going to introduce these lovely things (and more!!!) to you workoutholic ladies out there this month insyaAllah :)

A project by Sukan G (our baby!!!) :D

Stay tuned for the launch of the Facebook page and Twitter!!! 

Rise and Shine :)

My legs have been 'sleeping' well for the past 6 weeks...

I finally 'woke' them up last Saturday :)

And it feels good to be moving those legs again!!! Guess I needed that rest, huh? ;)

Slowly but surely, I am going to finish my second World Marathon Major in October insyaAllah... PB or no PB ;)

And I have this motivational video shared by the organisers to inspire me to do so :)

So bring it on Chicago!!! :D

SYAWAL 2012

Mum's masterpiece on the first day: liver, sambal squid, duck rendang, beef rendang...

Added 2kgs from first day already :P

Wearing my very own 'Ilyanna', designed by my friend Jezmine of The Old Blossom Box Store ;)

A feast on 2nd day at my dad's kampung: asam pedas ikan pari, ikan sembilang masak kunyit and belacan and gulai itik... Must have lauks every year!

With one of my nephews at our retreat in Port Dickson....

Wearing The Old Blossom Box Store's pieces again ;) 

SELAMAT HARI RAYA TO ALL OF MY MUSLIM READERS + FRIENDS!!!

MAAF ZAHIR BATIN...

MAY YOU HAVE A BLESSED EID AND BE SAFE ON THE ROAD! :)

XOXO,

MS ROAD RUNNER + FAMILY 

R.E.S.T.

Haha I'm totally feeling like this at the moment!!! :P

Taken from I ♥ to run's FB page

The upper inner thigh on my left leg has been experiencing painful moments... I started feeling this pain a few days before my PW at Sundown Marathon back in May... But decided to ignore it...

When I completed my home marathon back in June, the pain came back again, and it took me about 2 weeks to fully recover and walk like a normal person... Which was odd as it usually takes me about 2-3 days to recover and not walk like a retarded girl anymore :P

(Completed two marathons and still decided to ignore the pain *Naughty me* :P)

Anyhoo... I finally 'got' what I wanted... During my last run last month at Shape Night Run, I felt the pain throughout the entire 12.3km route...

So I decided to visit a sports doctor and did x-ray/ultrasound on my leg a few days after the race... And the doctor finally told me that I've a muscle inflammation on that area and that my left pubic bone is sort of 'curving away' from its position because of the falls that I've had from playing futsal previously *Cry*

ANDDDDD that it would take me about 6 weeks to recover!!!

I was speechless *drama*... And I told the doctor that I could not afford to rest that long as I've to train for my last marathon of the year... So yeah, I'm currently undergoing physio sessions (and resting) to make it heal faster... And doing a lot of stretching workouts for the legs... I realised that stretching is utterly and completely important (pre and post workout!)... And I didn't take it seriously before this... So, lesson learned!

Still trying to be optimistic about my PB dream at Chicago Marathon... I do get a lil' envious of my running friends when they post their running workouts on dailymile or Facebook at the moment as they're training as well for their next upcoming marathons respectively...

But I know that I should just chill my leg out first... And I'm trying to do other workouts that I'm allowed to such as swim, bike or row... Or even *cough* walking :P

My sessions will end by next week and it has been almost 3 weeks since I've last ran... I hope that I'll be able to start running again and just train for the remaining weeks I have for my second Marathon Major... PB or no PB... Sigh... Oh well, it's better than not being able to run at all right?

Until then, I shall try to write more on this blog ;) Oh, and stretch more!

Have a good week everyone!

Ramadhan Mubarak

I HOPE THAT IT'S NOT TOO LATE TOO WISH MY MUSLIM READERS AND FRIENDS TO HAVE A BLESSED RAMADHAN THIS YEAR :)

MAY ALLAH SHOWER HIS BLESSINGS EVEN MORE ON YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES DURING THIS HOLY MONTH...

AND TO EVERYONE ELSE, HAVE A GREAT MONTH AHEAD :) 

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun @ Men's Health / Shape Night Run

This entry deserves to be accompanied by one of my favourite songs during those days ;)



This event is one of the anticipated night runs for many of us runners here... And a run that my Gs and I are looking forward to and play dress-up again ;) Last year, the Gs and I paid tribute to the late King of Pop, MJ... So this year, we went all the way back to the 80s and decided to colour the night with out outfits ;)

I was still nursing an injury which I'm not quite sure of as I've been feeling it way before Sundown Marathon back in May... Maybe I need to get advice from my pretty running friend and doctor, Pui San on this... So I was pretty much running in pain last Saturday night... My favourite uncle flagged off the race again this year at 8pm and I managed to say hi to him after crossing the start line...

So, Apprentice and I decided to run this year again and we were making sure that we did not lose each other too :) And we caught up with Senorita and Kam after the 5km marker and we spent a good few kms running and chit-chatting... And cam-whoring of course ;)

The organisers slightly changed the route this year... But the distance remained the same (12.2km according to my Garmin) even though the stated distance was 11.8km... I must say that it was a nice change this year and definitely preferred this route even with the rolling hills! But one thing that the organisers have not learned from the previous years' installment - Putrajaya is hot at night especially when there are a total of 6500 runners! Hence, isotonic drinks of even sponges at the water stations would've 'helped' the runners to get through the 12km route...We even saw a runner fainted by the side of the road and I have a feeling that it was because of the heat *Sigh* I hope that guy is alright now...

At the last 1km, we both decided to dash towards the finish line... And of course smiled for the cameras... After all, we were too colourful to be missed *perasan* ;P

Apprentice and I just before crossing the finish line...

Pic credits to Idola

We both crossed the line at 1 hr 24 mins and were placed at no 154 and 155 respectively... No improvement from last year but I'm just glad and happy to complete the run with my fellow G :) Oh, and the organisers decided to increase the limited finisher medals from 100 to 300 this year... Thank you dear organisers for that! So, we were happy to secure one of the medals into our collection ;)

With Apprentice..

Thanks for putting up with me during the run ;)
And you finally got your medal this year... Yay!!! 

Pic credits to Idola 

With my 80s sisters and our medals ;)

We were definitely the most colourful runners! ;)

Pic credits to Idola

A group shot with part of the running familia here that's growing day by day :)

Pic credits to Idola 

(I'm using all of your pictures ok? :P)

I also came back with an additional souvenir this year... My big right toe-nail decided to die on me at the last few kms of the route... And it was just about to heal from last year's TNF... Oh well, my toe just doesn't wanna be pretty :P 

"When the working day is done, oh girls just wanna have fun" - Cyndi Lauper-

And we sure did :)

Pic credits to Shanaz

That's all for now folks... No more races 'til the month of Syawal... Gotta just train and set my mind on Chicago now :) 

Oh, and any suggestions on what should the Gs wear for our next race? ;)