UTM Award-Giving ceremony 2012

Aloha everyone ,

So today's post is just a recap of last Saturday's dinner event which was on saturday night @ the Zon  (but no clubbin was involved)  ;)  .
After a long wait for the bus, finally the bus moved @ around 5:40 PM, where we have been waitin there since 5:00 PM. Zaheen being familiar with such punctuality, he decided to follow us later by his friend's car so he dont have to waste time (smart) .... This time it was Zaheen, Chau,Mozes, Khairul, syusukesyafa , and me (guess who)  who made it to the dinner night.

The most important thing was the food, basically i felt like we went to tasting night not a dinner night . Aside from the small portions, we had to stop multiple times while eating due to running out of rice. it was quite delicious thought, but not enough. Moreover, the dessert was only just some kind of juice !, no cake no fruits , nothing . Thus, i would rate the dinner tht night 7/10 .

But UTM was smart, in order to overcome such issue(small portion), they assigned a group of guys to perform a dance right after the dinner, and i wish they didn't !!!!!! As soon as they started to dance.. omg totally GAY . Just imagine couple of guys (with no girls) on the stage dancing on ''Sway with Me'' and grinding all over the singer !!! no way am gona listen to that song anytime soon for sure .. So UTM plan did work, right after those guys finished dancing i felt suddenly full , and lost my appetite to continue eating.


Away from the food, we encountered tht night a problem which was us being scattered all around, not all sitting on a same table . since Zaheen had to sit on the front tables so he can go up stage to get awarded faster, Khairul being a member of ETP (Excellent Track Program) so also she had to sit other table. Whereas me n Mozes sat on a table different from Chau n syusukesyafa since our team was a bit late to confirm the reservation .

Just settin there watching the students getting awarded for their achievements, it was like a motivational boast. imaginin ourselves self being on tht stage one day, ohh it just feels great ..

At last lets congrat zaheen for being awarded that night for his performance in last masum. Hopefully by the coming awards night we shall see more kakithoners being awarded ;)

Now i leave u with a couple of photos tht we managed to take tht night ..

Malakoff-UTM Duathlon Clinic 2012

taken from drblacksps.blogspot.com:

Proudly to announce an inaugural Malakoff-UTM Duathlon Clinic 2012 will be organized by UTM Sports Innovation & Technology Centre, in collaboration with Johor Triathlon Association and Mentor Training. Also Malakoff Corporation Berhad as a title sponsor for this event.

This event purposely:

• To prepare university student to compete in Malakoff University Duathlon Series 2012 (MUDS 2012)
• To introduce & expose university student with knowledge, skills and sports science aspect in duathlon race
• To find university  representatives during Malakoff University Duathlon Series 2012 (MUDS 2012)

Details of this event as below:

Date: 28 April 2012
Time: 8:30 am to 2:00pm
Venue: Sports Innovation & Technology Centre, UTM Stadium
Fee: FREE! (for university students)
No of Participants: 40 persons only


Contents of this event:

• Introduction to Duathlon (Class)
• Sports Science Approach in Duathlon (Class)
• Running Aspect in Duathlon (Tutorial & Practical)
• Cycling Aspect in Duathlon (Tutorial & Practical)
• Transition Skills & Practice
• Duathlon Race Simulation

Who will coaching & assist you?

• Powerman Finisher since 2003, 
• Ironman Finishers, 
• Malakoff Malaysian Duathlon Series Contenders,
• Malakoff University Duathlon Series Contenders
• Sports Science Practitioners,
• International Triathlon Union Level 2 Coach (only two coaches in Malaysia)

Posing before the DU..

Run the DU..

Cycle the DU..

Crossing the DU finish line

Another pose after DU..

You will get:

• Free packed meals (tea break & lunch)
• Certificate
• Drinks (mineral & isotonic)
• T-shirt
• File & notes

Bring together your:

• running shoe
• bicycle (any type of bicycles)
• bike helmet (if any)
• sports towel/hand towel
• smile
• sporting spirit

So that, mark this event into your schedule, and don't miss to attend this event!

For early registration, please email me your full name, ic no, university name and matric card no. to:

miha5123@gmail.com 

Hurry up the number of registered participants is still increasing!

Art thou broken?

Bonjour! For these past weeks 3 kakithoners have been members of the injury/cross training club (congrats to Wong on leaving the club recently, we will miss you..), in light of that I would like to share a few excerpts from Lauren Fleshman's interview and blog that I found funny and informative...

Firstly the funny, emo one yet also kinda mirroring my feelings ( she sounds like she's going to turn into the hulk XD )

The Olympic Trials are in less than four months and I can’t even jog a 5k much less race one. This is clearly not how I pictured my season shaping up. As I walk home there are no tears. I hate everything. I want to hurt something. The fire inside me makes me impervious to the winter air. I can feel it, the rage, like a screaming kettle building inside me. It burns the backside of my eyes. I want to run over to those fisherman on the side of Pre’s Trail and snap their fly rods over my busted knee and hurl their open tackle boxes toward the river, watching the contents erupt through the sky like fireworks. 

And now the informative part, her training menu after resting for 1 month:

*in between 30s rest walk*

Day

1     5x 1:00                                             (total 5mins)

2     3x1:00//1x2:00//1x1:00                    (total 6mins)

3     1:00//2:00//1:00//2:00//2x1:00          (total 8 mins)

4     1:00//2:00//1:00//2x2:00//2x1:00      (total 10mins)

5     1:00//2:00//3:00//1:00//2:00//1:00     (total 12mins)

6     1:00//2:00//3:00//4:00//5:00              (total 15mins)

7     10:00//2x5:00                                    (total 20mins)

8     2x10:00                                             (total 20mins)

#1 week of 20mins continuous runs

#1 week longest run 40-45mins

#1 week longest run 60mins

If no pain is felt the workout progresses downward, else, stop running or retry the same workout after a few days rest.

The aforementioned program might sound like overkill, but considering that you never know whether you've completely recovered it actually makes a lot of sense to test things out gently. Of course, nothing is written in stone, it's just to illustrate the point of easing into it after a serious injury. Feel free to adjust the program to suit the degree of your injury and how you feel. However, a 50mins run directly after a long running sabbatical is definitely a bad idea (dude, you know who you are..).

Cross training such as swimming, cycling etc is a great way to keep up your fitness and  there are enough articles on the internet praising the uncountable holy benefits of cross training, so I'm not going to be redundant. A little reminder though the 10% rule may not be THE LAW but it's made for a reason so don't get over-enthusiastic ramming up the miles suddenly while cross training. (Scenario: busting your shoulder swimming a 30km week when your knee is fractured = adding insult to injury  hahaha...)

That's all folks... hope I didn't get you down with all this injury talk, here's a phenomenal 4x400m vid (check out the 3rd and 4th runners really digging deep to hold England, Australia and Nigeria at bay!)

The whole is more than the sum of it's parts. (Aristotle) 

Kakithon- Captain

Just a small tribute to Kakithon Captain / Co founder on his "Tai Yat Chi", hehe
Still going strong after graduated, hehe

 

 Hope Kakithon will continue to improve and become a running powerhouse in Malaysia, hehe