Just Keep TRI-ing

Last Saturday, I participated in a 10 km race organised by the Six Senses Spa, Sharq Village, while my wife, Hani took part in the 5 km category.  The Sharq Village has been organising the charity race for almost every month recently, but I never had much interest to participate because of 2 reasons. Firstly, the race are taking place along the Corniche promenade with its hard and uneven brick surfaces. It is bad for my knees and I have suffered patellafemoral pain not once but twice after running the entire length of the Corniche. Secondly, in the previous races, I found it odd that the distances were either 15 km or 7.5 km. For some reason, I am not keen to race in a non-standard distance events. I am only interested in 5,10, Half Marathon or Full Marathon events. Thankfully the organiser decided to start the event near the Museum of Islamic Art instead of from the Sharq Village itself. So we had 5 and 10 km categories. The race was scheduled to start at 4 pm. I was expecting a t...

This is my second attempt to enter the London Marathon through the Overseas Ballot Entry. It would be awesome if my entry is successful since London is one of the prestigous World Marathon Majors. But if I fail again, I have already made my mind to run the Vienna Marathon. Like this year, I ran Paris Marathon after my ballot enty was unsuccessful. Who knows I could be lucky this time.

Since I came back from my disastrous Paris Marathon, I was wondering if I still have a shot at qualifying for Boston before September 2014 to run on the 2015 edition. My current PB still stands at 3:55 recorded in Dubai last January. That is 45 minutes too slow. I need to run faster than 3:10. To allow myself to have the taste to run in THE mother of all marathons. A more realistic goal is for me to aim for 2016 edition and qualify before September 2015. Here is my plan: May - Jul 2013: Focus on the training to run 10k in 45 minutes May - Jul 2013: Strength training. Focus on core and quads Adequate sleep and rest Eat healthy  Yoga once a week  Following FIRST marathon training plan as detailed in Run Less Run Faster book. Start swimming lesson in July 2013. Then swim once a week (as described in FIRST) Cycling once a week from July (as described in FIRST) Target Time in BLUE is Optimistic (Running Boston in 2015) Target Time in RED is Pessim...

It was the day when the whole running community came together to witness and celebrate THE most prestigious marathon; The Boston Marathon. It is every runner's dream to qualify and participate in this race, including me. That's what this blog is about, to share my journey from being a couch potato to qualifying for the Boston Marathon. I was tracking 4  friends from DBRC (Tee, Alicia, Wendy and Jessica), one of my running idols, Jie Shie from Singapore, and all the Malaysian representatives on the marathon's website until almost all of them finished their runs except Tee Morgan who at the that time was at KM 40. I logged off my PC and went to bed knowing Tee and all of them have had a great race in Boston. But this morning, I woke up to find messages on my mobile from my friends in Australia and Malaysia asking how I was and whether I was in Boston. I was wondering what had happened in Boston. Then I logged in my Facebook and shocke...