Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Cleaning up my hard disk

fuhh.. my hard disk is so messy just like my room (was... not now anymore)... so does my laptop suppose to be, now i'm cleaning up (compress or delete) pictures in my F folder. as i love to take pictures and collect pictures, so my laptop is like an album.. haha!
normally people will spend most of their space in laptop for games, songs, or videos (either movies or video clips) but not me! I have 18.5Gb of pictures in my laptop which contains of 9259 pictures and 174 folders.. haha love it!

now (11.20pm) i'm continue my previous work of compressing pictures. adoi! ada pening jugak, too many folders, want to delete some but worry if i want to use it. even though i know i have save it in DVDs, but still didnt delete it. hehe XD
 


hmm... just done compressing my pictures folder. now is 12.20am.. watching those videos and pictures of my friends when we in UiTM make me smile.. and at some point feel sad cuz miss those moment so much.. as now, some of us wont further their study - working right now.. 
by compressing the pictures & delete some unwanted pictures/vids, now my pictures folder is 15.8Gb, which contains 9183 pictures with 173 folders..

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Lets talk KAYAK



salam, lately i've been training for kayak, actually at first i was just want to see how is it, i mean can i kayak or not. and also want to learn a little bit about kayak. but then, it turned out the other way.....
we had our first training (a.k.a first class) at 26th mac 09, and the coach were amir (called him koyok) and another one amir (called kayap). the first day, we tried single kayak and all first comers were asked to try "nova". it's a recreational kayak, made from plastic. what type of plastic, huh, i dunno!
it was ok. no problem in balancing the kayak, as i had kayak in last 2 years (the same type of kayak). but it was only once, haha!
that afternoon, en.hafiz a.k.a our team manager met us (me, ahmad, kamal, fizi, nasrul, wana, fifi) and told us to train hard n this is just "nova" kayak not yet the racing kayak which is "TK". the "TK" is harder to balance. as it was built for speed, so it is harder to balance (yes of course just for newbie)..

after two weeks, we had to try the "TK" kayak as we have to get used to it. haha! damn hard to balance it, as kamal n i always shaking when we get into it. huhu~~
and for the first day we must get used to it, no need to pedal fast but make sure go straight and able to control it. then as i can pedal smoothly, i started to pedal faster, and i heard kamal said "wah hebat kau din", huhu~... just after about 10seconds later, debush!!! kayak ku terbalik... hahaha! and i cant swim... trying my best to swim to the side with pulling the kayak together, but i wasnt moving... :p
luckily, the coach is still at the back of us n then he helped me... he showed shocking face when i told him i cant swim.. hehehe... luckily wear the life jacket.
after that fall, i was immediately think that i'm not into this kayak thing. in other way, i almost give up... give up... huhu... the fall, the cant swim make me feel so down.. :p

but, then koyok gave me n kamal bring home the life jacket. because we normally come early. ok, at this time, my spirit had increased! cuz i can see that he wanted us to get down training frequently. so, it's ok... i tried another shot another day..

and as day goes by, alhamdulillah, i'm doing good now. no more fall. kamal, he felt for many times but i believed that were good for him, good lesson.. and now, he doesnt fall anymore and becoming faster. :)


ecah fix the tubes at the front of kayak...


my kayak.... 


sit- checked, tubes- checked, cockpit- checked~ ready to go..

so  now, i have this kayak training every afternoon..! whoa! lalalalala... every 5.30 pm people can see us on the lakes for that training... pity for couple that dating at that time, cuz we will be there to make some noise!! or more noise!! hahaha!

ok, at this moment, this is all what can i story about my kayaking program. will update more story later.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Can't Believe!!

hmm, as normal last sunday (5th april 09) , I had my sunday run with URC members, but the different this time was there were not many people joint this run, only 7 members. 3 members did one round, and another 4 members did two rounds!
7 members that joint were;

-me
-naz
-soleh
-daus
-hariz
-nas
-sufi


naz; nas; sufi; soleh; daus; me

we started quite late - 7.20am, as usual, we run together 1st than we had our own pace run! hmm, seriously sucks for this day run, my right legs a little bit pain when starting the 2nd round and i had side stitch half of the 2nd round. seriously terrible! for this 2nd round, soleh, daus, n sufi joint together and i'm leading at first 10minutes and later at PTAR 1, sufi overtook me, at end of 'padang kawad' soleh overtook me, and at pusat kesihatan bro daus overtook me.. aiyaa, i have no more extra power to chase them back or even to maintain my pace. i seriously slow down. i had finished this 2nd lap for 27min:16sec.. 29th march run was better - 25min:36sec... hmmm..
oh my God, i lost to sufi this time.. totally lost! huhu


uphills..uphills

see? my damn exhausted face.. how am i going to join da half marathon.. adeh!


jom bergambar

now as i join the kayak training i have a little bit less training for running! hmm, wednesday to saturday have the kayak training, hehe join kayak but can't swim.. used to terbalik once.. then it was tough to get back at the side cuz can't swim.. haha!

but as i really feel that my running performance down a little, so i need to plan my running schedule well! need to ensure that in this month, every week i must run atleast 40k.. huh? boleh ke.. hahaha :)

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Sunday training

Salam...

Last sunday (29th march 2009) I had another training with my club's members, it's a 10km training.. This training I think can not shaves up 15 minutes from my last 20km record but this is for the maintaining the fitness I already obtained. People always said, if you want to be better, you have to work harder.. But this sunday training is more on easy long run, errr, maybe not long enough.... I want to do 3laps soon, as if i round UiTM for 3 rounds, it means i have run for about 15km.. speed?? that one i will focus on later. i just need my legs to be regular with long distance running.. i wonder how some people run ULTRA MARATHON (100km and above)!! are they crazy!?


mun; sufi; daus; me; nassa; amad

UiTM route is really good for training as it has really challenging hills, and if we train regularly at this area, there will be no problems to conquer the hills at Bukit Tunku area later.. haha!

New Balance 15km will be on 17th May. I still have 6 weeks to training. hmm, 15km..... lets put some target here. I want to finish 15km in 1hour 25mins!!
how am i going to achieve that? =long run training + speed training + drills = SUCCESS!!

back on this sunday training, our first lap run was a group run and we ran first lap for 32 minutes. the second lap as we run at our own pace, i did it 25mins 36sec.. maybe i didnt run in the weekdays, so that is a good reason why i'm so exhausted in 2nd lap, while i was running the hills up, i'm breathing so hard, my legs stride smaller and also i am slower! damn... i need consistency in my running now. however, as now i involve in kayak training, i need to divide my time perfectly to train my legs and also my upper body. WOW loves sport!! hahaha

leading in 2nd lap (for a while..hahaha)


bro daus has improve a lot compare to last week, his pace is better than me now! salute you bro!! ~see my face? hahaha, so tired to follow his pace :p


sufinah, another good runner... she has improve so much compare to last year when we were still new in this club. as we run 10km, she overtakes me few times... huhu... 


amad, a great make over runner! from non-runner to a mid distance runner, that's awesome... stop his bad habits of smoking to a healthy lifestyle... timing? yup, he is improving well....


must do a cooling down before we get back.. IMPORTANT!!

My next year target is to join the Temasya Olahraga Tahunan UiTM... i need to improve myself a lot to be a competitive runner.. maybe i wont win, but i want to give some challenge to other runners!

-running never takes more than what it gives back-

Sunday, March 22, 2009

~Sunday Training~

Salam..

This morning (22nd march 2009) i did my training in uitm shah alam. two laps of MelatiRun (men route) and so there were few UiTM Runners' Club members that join the training. With different paces we were running together for the first lap, we try to maintain in group as close as possible. 

Members that joint the training were:
-ahmad
-nazrul
-hariz
-hafizi
-daus
-nassa
-farid
-pjart
-ruby
-mun
-wana

**awin
**fifi
(**they were waiting at the starting point to take care our bags and also to snap our pictures)

we started running at 7.20am after stretching that was lead by miss awin (club's vice president). we run at slow pace, about 6-7min/km, as we have new members join the run. that was good! new members coming to join the morning run! who is really wanted to wake up early on Sunday just for the RUN???? hahaha! we will - THE RUNNERS..
good effort!
as the first round, i bring my camera along to snap some pictures, because this is for the group run, it's ok for me. but for the 2nd lap (own pace lap), i didnt my camera along as it would make me harder to run or maybe make me distracted by holding the camera along.

The 2nd lap, we run the "bukit tonggek".... whoa! at 3rd quater, i really cant run anymore, and just stop and walked to the top! CRAZY hill! then the other part was ok, but yes, i'm exhausted. hmm, wondering what is the problems? am i not fit enough? hariz and hafizi were gone, never saw them anymore. but nassa was gone faster. infact, he finished 1st and went back to the college to take shower 1st as he has class at 9.30am. hahaha!
i did 23:35 for the 2nd lap. at the 1st lap, we run together for 40:xx..











at the finishing point.... yehaaa....(24mins for the second round)


Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Larian Amal Seri Sinar~

salam.. on sunday (15th march 2009) i went to the another 10km run but this is at different place - Bukit Jalil.. "bukit" is just for the name, cuz there were not so much hills. Just one hill which was steep, the other is just average. UiTM route is harder, haha!


So, the UiTM Malaysia Runners' Club joint this event as we had sent 29 participant and 4 person in-charged for the photos and our bags. The plan was to go at 5.45am but again, there were latecomers...... we actually moved at 6.05am instead of 5.45am. then we stopped by at the tol plaza to pray (Subuh) and continue the journey at 6.35am. The race was planned to start at 7.00am and we only arrived at around 7.10am. YES, WE WERE LATE!!
Luckily the race actually delayed for 5 minutes. As we arrived, we walked to the starting area, there was few members infront and i saw fadhlullah saying "kami letak beg kat sini" and daud, hafizi, asif, azrey, & fadhlullah just rushing to the starting to collect the ribbon and RUUUUUNNNNNN! 
with hurry, i put my bag and run, the word that i wont forget is when i about to run i heard ahmad said "perlu ke lari tak stretching??" hahaha.. and i just ignore and run. then i saw ahmad also follow me. the early mistake for this run was - NO STRETCHING, NO WARMING UP!

as i have taken the ribbon (at the starting line), i just run without looking back, and for this race, i don't run at slow pace for 5 minutes. i just run at my average pace (5min/km) or maybe even better because i'm absolutely late. 1km ahead was no runners at all except few of the URC members. then, after 1km, i saw some runners ahead and as i keep running, i saw there is hill in-front  and thank you to that hill as because of that hill i start to overtaking people. and this is awesome because i'm running at my pace going up hill, not even slowing down. good one! i saw kamal in-front and at the KL city run i actually say something when i was overtaking him but this run, no, i just run.. haha! focus... but i forgot one thing, as i run at this pace, i started to get tired when i was at the top. at the 3rd quater of the hill, sufinah overtook me. oh my god! she just overtook me.. are you kidding? haha. i just follow her for couple of minutes, then i be at her side and encourage her to push more. and maybe i over do it cuz she is going faster (or maybe i'm slower). hehe, she just push and push and go further and make gap with me, aaah! cant follow anymore. then few minutes later, nazrul came from the back. eh! i thought he already in-front. huhu.. he also leave me, and maintain his pace. 
finished one lap, another lap to go, yah miss pjart was standing at the starting point to take our picturesss (thank you to you yah).. 


the 2nd round i actually out of energy larr... even the most un-steep hill also hard to conquer, kahkahkah! but ok lar, still can run... about 2km to go, pahmi overtook me.. i just follow him, didnt care so much at this time, but only when i saw sufinah in-front, my burning spirits came back!! then, i run beside pahmi and told him lets go run with sufinah. yes we did. we run together for one minute and i said it's near but only have one short hill in-front and i started to increase my pace up and sufina just can't follow, she walked for a while. but i didnt stop, i just have to run, thats wat i told myself...... yeah!! finish line...
got kamal's girlfriend to take our picture at the finishing line. hehe.. tq2x



just one thing not satisfied, normally when i finished the race, i still can go to the drink station with short queue but today, the queue already long as there was only one milo drink station. they should do two atleast!

here is the result:

Distance: 10km
Time: 53:35
Placing: 120th
Average HR: 186
Max HR: 200
Kcal burnt: 1149

analysis:
bad thing: no stretching, no warming up, start with high pace, can't keep up with sufi!
good thing: run easier on the hills.


the great URC members!! (the green tshirt is one of the organiser, Mr. Ronny)

after we finished the run

the members that "gila gambar" hahah!


chit chat while waiting for the bus


lets chit chat about my friend.. i really proud of one of my course mate, as he just started to join the club and now he is committed with running. why did i proud of him? because he is trying his best to improve his performance. and also he was a smoker before! see, a smoker.. now, as he join this club, he had stopped smoking.. GOOD JOB AHMAD...!


ahmad at the finishing line...




Sunday, March 15, 2009

My next biggest goal!! the map~

Yes, the map for Standard Chartered half-marathon is released now! for all runners, have you set your strategy? hehe

Monday, March 9, 2009

Training in UiTM Shah Alam

Hello, on 8th march 2009 we had our group running.. just around UiTM shah alam, and we used the Melati Run route (but we skipped the "Bukit Tonggek"). people that join were

1) aizuddin
2) hafizi
3) ahmad
4) hariz
5) sufinah
6) syazwina
7) nasrul** he came late!! hahaha

we gather at the car park infront of Dataran Cendekia bus stop, did a little bit stretching and started running at 6.14pm (late! as we planned to run at 6pm)
the amazing thing about this run was we did 2 laps of the route. 1st route using the men route for melati run and for 2nd route we ran using the women route for melati run.
for the 1st lap (or 1st round) we ran in group. then the 2nd round after a little bit refreshing ourselves, we ran according to our own pace (after the pondok pak guard pintu depan tu~)..

the distance is: 9.5km 



congratulation as all of us finished below 65 minutes.

as we started to run at our own pace, i can see hariz and fizi had left the group, their pace is good but i know that wasnt their best pace. i know lar hariz, fizi, this training was easy for you guys! hehehe... as for me, it was hard to run up the hills at the 2nd round! hehe but it was damn good feeling when you finished it. and i have finished the run in 55:45.. for 9.5km that have hills, that's quite good.

running details:

distance: 9.5km
time: 55:45
ave HR: 182
max HR: 195
kcal burn: around 1100kcal

-SELECTED PICTURES-

hafizi's shoes - adistar glide
zuddin's shoes- adidas response 16th edition
sufinah's shoes- nike ........
after the run! 


'The distance may look easy, but you don't feel the hills yet!! who dare to take the challenge~!!'

-impossible x ada pape- hahaha....

Friday, March 6, 2009

nothing to say

jom minum....


lets start back a healthy diet for a healthy & fit body for THE RACE!!
last 20km was 2hr:00min:54sec..
target this June is 1hr:45min:00sec.. 
for those who are professional runners please comment is it to cut off 15mins is okay or it is too much for me as a beginner? 

-impossible is nothing, adidas-

Monday, March 2, 2009

UiTM Melati Run, 6km...

salam to all readers..

there were 3 events for last sunday (1st march 2009) and our great running club (UiTM MALAYSIA RUNNERS CLUB) had done a great job by sending its members to all this three events! the events were

1st - KL Towerthon, in KL
2nd- UiTM Melati Run, in UiTM Shah Alam
3rd- UPM e-Charity Run, in UPM Serdang

5 members (as in 1 team) joint the KL Towerthon event, 5 members joint the UPM e-charity run, and the other members join the UiTM melati run as it is internal event and here we come to support UiTM! Lets talk about this event;

i arrived melati early in the morning with ahmad shahrir and guess what, we were so early! hahaha..... just one more runner was there, and cuz of that, my bib no was 003 and ahmad was 002.. hihi.. this event was meant for internal students (students that live in the college provided) but no excuse, event i'm not live in the college, here i come from bangsar to run.. spirit of running.. :)
then, one by one URC members came. nas, pjart, ecah, ruby, hariz, sufinah, etc.....
The event was scheduled to start at 8am, but delay to 8.30am as we have this morning aerobic 1st. hehe.. the aerobic instructor do it so good but as for us (1st timer), haha messed up dude!!
then, all runners were release at 8.33am... 


run with jeans?? hehe :p

Oh my God!!! it's true, we have to run the "bukit tonggek" at the very beginning. what a tough hill! i'm not at the front line, so, at the very beginning i tried to run a little bit faster then my previous run, try decrease the gap between front runners. haha, as we almost arrived at the top of the bukit tonggek, almost all berjalan kaki macam baru belajar jalan.. haha!
then, for 3minutes downhill route, can consider they gave us some time to relax the legs lar. same like uitm megathon, for men, here it comes- DOUBLE HILLS. again, the same route. ok ok, i try my best to control my breathing & control my landing of foot, hey din, mid foot~mid foot, no more heel! but poor me, my legs get tired easily, my breathing a little bit messed up, only my spirit left in my heart to drive me to the top of the hills. so, don't go anywhere my spirit, i need you from now on to drive me! hehe
huh, this is all due to not training properly, aiyoo, adek dush will be mad if he knows i didn't training. haha! just a week before was the KL City Day Run (10.8km) n then on friday i did my light jogging. then, here i am for the race.. how come i can perform well right?
my mind was ready for this race, but not my legs, my lungs, and my heart! they need training badly. if not, i will just injured myself every time after the race. hmm... :(
i was at 10th position at 15mins, then hariz start to come near to me, and run at my side for a couple of minutes, then he continues to make the gap between us, i just follow him and not letting him to go away far from me as i know this is just 1km more. i follow him closely and i can see zaki was about 20-25metres behind me (so, i'm not that tense to keep the position). then, about 800metre to the finish line, i was just at hariz back and overtook him at 300m more to the end as at this moment i gave my 100%, there was no look back.. but hmmmm, cuz i wasnt training well, hariz overtook me back at the finish line. so he finished at 10th and i'm at 11th.. huhu, i feel like want to vomit. but relax, keep breathing, breath smoothly... lucky, i didnt vomit, kalau x, malu worr...


pjart, me, izzuddin, hariz, & sukha


after the run... huhu, jom duduk dulu sembang2...


URC, the best!!


here are my details (not satisfy with it, really...)

distance: 6km
timing: 24:35
ave HR: 188bpm
max HR: 205bpm
kcal burn: 532kcal
but never mind it was a good run for non-training outcome, got 11th place, and got RM10 for the position.

hmm, i need to training back, as URC will join the:
LARIAN AMAL SERI SINAR at BUKIT JALIL at 15TH MARCH 2009....
must train at the hilly area. make some weight training and also speed training..
pjart, this is for you: "push to the limits of ourselves as we actually never reach the limits!"


URC members........ on the stage

tq for spend the time to read this...