~Ipoh Starwalk 2009~

Can't help but to taste cereal + milk...

Look at the participants!!

Me at the Starting Point

Me fiddling with my running tag


Hello guys....It has been a long time since I last scribble something here...I always disappear and reappear?? lol Anyway, a lot has happened for the past few months...this time I just wanna share my experience in Starwalk 2009.

Star walk is an event organized yearly by The Star paper. As for this year, it was in conjunction with Ipoh city's 21st Anniversary Celebration. This was my second year of 'starwalking". =)

I joined last year with J and I make it a point to join every year since. Starwalk is a 10km walk around Ipoh city. I woke up as early as 5.15am to get myself prepared and i reached Stadium at 6.30am. The crowd was there even before we stepped in the reporting center. It was kind of tiring while walking for this distance but I make it a point to complete it...at least within the time me n j set up for me. A 10km walk within 60 mins? Hell...we thought we can do it...Guess what...we only managed to walk 5 km within an hour. We were only halfway! No way...not giving up....we just kept walking. As for your information, the cut-off time was 100 mins...we were trying to be hero!!hehe

Alas....I managed to complete it. I took 1 hour 33 minutes and 43 seconds. Kinda of bad right? But I really tried my best. Guess what, for my category (Women Open), I finished at the 16th place. I was given a tag. I was a bit curious and eventually I found out that the card will entitled me to a medal if I can get into top 15. And that means....I have to hope that there will be people disqualified so I can get a price??!!

Me and J waited for an hour and yet the result has yet to be finalised. We finally gave up as we were both tired, hungry, and were rushing to attend father's day celebration in church. In the end we were like 45 minutes late for church...but I don't think I miss much. Later I received a message from the officer-in-charge stating that I am not entitled for any prize. Within a minute I received another message saying there was a mistake..I won, 15th place.

What to think??...Of course I am happy! Generally it was fun and it is a good event to get everyone exercise at the same time....time to get sweaty girls!! See you guys next year and may more people will join the fun. I will do better next year...hopefully =)