This one is for all you runners out there. The 2008 Borneo Marathon, the first marathon to be held in Kota Kinabalu in over 20 years, is the perfect opportunity to combine a holiday and get another marathon, or half marathon/10km (depending on which event you choose) under your belt !
Have a look at www.borneomarathon.com
10% of the entry fee will go to local charties, and you are encouraged to choose the one you want to contribute to specifically.
The race starts early in the morning on Sunday, the 12 of October, and I will be there !
I have entered the half -marathon part of the race (I am not completely nuts!).. although this running thing is not something I would normally do... Don't get me wrong: I love sports and I love the outdoors and that's why I live here in Borneo. But I'm not as fit as I used to be and running 21 km in the tropics... well I have visions of my face turning red, my head throbbing with heat, and my mouth and lungs sucking in air like vacuum cleaner when you accidentally get chunk stuck in it !
However, once my friend and colleague, William Dickens, had decided to take up the challenge it was only a matter of time before his enthusiasm and relentless badgering persuaded me to join too...
Its gonna be a hard 'road' ahead. If anyone else out there is running this I look forward to seeing you there at the start, and hopefully at the end too.
Onwards !
Ywan
Ps. Any tips from you experienced runners on how to train properly for the big day ?
Hi Ywan,
Great that you've decided to enter in BIM. Happy to have you guys supporting us. If you're interested we have training clinics every fortnight at the Likas Jogging Track where race directors and participants discuss training tips and techniques as well as go for a run together. A good way to get to know other runners too.
For more information : http://www.borneomarathon.com/rules.html
Our next clinic is on Saturday 5th July 4:30pm. If if rains we will push it back to Sunday 6th July, same time and place.
The race directors have also started weekly runs every Saturday morning at 7:30am at the Likas Jogging Track : http://borneomarathon.blogspot.com/2008/06/running-clinics-in-kk.html
Hope this helps and that your training is going well.
Cheers,
Shan
Hi Shan,
Yeah, I've been meaning to join you at the Saturday morning clinic at Likas, but so far i've been only been running in the evenings after work.. but definitely will join you soon because the Borneo marathon race starts in the early morning so early morning training would probably benefit me more....
My friends and I are trying to follow this program we found on the internet: http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-238-244-258-6851-0,00.html
Amazingly just to reach what they call the "beginner" level you have to be able to run 5 miles without too much problem...
Well I finally only managed to do that last week!!
So now I'm at the beginner level...
Woo hoo!