MUDS

here are the history of our participant in muds
2011
3rd series-UM


2nd series-UPM

1st series-UPNM

2010
3rd series-UPM

2nd series- UM

1st series-UPNM

2009
3rd series-UM

2nd series- Uniten

1st series-UPNM

2008
(table above is for men's university and below is for women's university category)
3rd series-UPNM

2nd series-UM

1st series-UKM

A we all noticed, we are seriously lacking of pool of athlete in this run-bike-run sports
Ong has been carrying Kakithon UTM torch for 4 years ,
Hope more juniors will step up and carry on our participation in this annual event.
We also hope our Unit Sukan will show more support in the future as this event received huge media propagation such as The Star & NST
It will be good platform to raise Kakithon UTM name, hehe
Hope we will be much more stronger and well prepared next year, hehe
Let this year series be a great lesson for all of us.

Every Second Counts

Downloaded from YouTube, very inspiring..

Hope this will bring fresh enthusiasm to all of us.
Today is the birthday for one of our kakithon member, hehe
Let us all wish her ( sometimes him, hehe) enjoy her final year in UTM, hehe

Larian Amal Kebangsaan Muar

Zaheen and Li Ting during the prize giving ceremony.(photos from penonton)

5 kakithon members joined the race with Li Ting, Zaheen, Ah Long n Tareef in the 11km category (the actual distance is around 12km+-) while myself joined the 21km run.

Li Ting and Zaheen both went back their hometown earlier while three of us took bus to Muar which famous for their tasty mee bandung according to ah long, hehe (we tried it for our dinner and it was quite okok la)

We straight went to dataran tanjung emas to collect all our bibs and again Tareef was the center of attention, just that this time it was not small primary school girls but the organisers who can’t resist the temptation to take picture with him, hehe

3 of us were very lucky as we found a reasonable price hotel which cost us RM50 for a room with comfortable beds. The night before we rest early around 10am (hehe, nothing else to do)

Before the race started at 6.30am, it was pouring with rain but the organiser continues to gun off the 21km race after delayed for around 10minutes.

It was a flat course but the road was very wet due to heavy rain (luckily my NB racer dried up quite fast, hehe)

Finished the race in 1 hour 28 min+-, (which is my PB for half marathon,hehe), Zaheen also did very well by finishing 5^th, while Li Ting and Tareef finished together with the timing of 59mi+-(Li Ting was first in her category, hehe, congrat), Ah Long completed the race just before the cut off time despite battling with flu (bravo, bro, hehe)

After the race, Zaheen’s mum treats us all with some hearty breakfast ( terima kasih Mak Cik ,hehe). During the journey back, there were no more bus ticket to JB, so we took a bus to Batu Pahat and then changed another bus JB (very lucky as it was quite a smooth journey). My friend, Vincent aka Eat God, hehe pick us from Sri Puteri and back to UTM (thanks a lot, bro).

Hope next week will be fruitful week for Kakithon team in MUDS and Zon Run.

Awesomeness.

Change in schedule and tentative poster

Please note that the program for Tuesday and Wednesday will be swapped as per Coach Yusuff's suggestion. It's now padang hoki on tuesday and stadium on wednesday. Hope everyone can still make it.

Which one do you like?

Back2kcaB racing and the subway incident

Remember the last MUDS post? Imma be starting off this post with another short excerpt from kakithon history 101:

MUDS-year 2010

1. UPNM leg: Chan 1st

Ong 2nd

2. UM leg: Ong 1st

Chan 2nd

After our victory last week, MUDS 2's played out in a somewhat similar style to last year's with Ong and Chan reaching something of a draw in the battle for duathlete of the year, but I'm getting ahead of myself.....

....... this years MUDS 2 was held at UPM instead of the last year's UM. Despite new MASUM champ Amirul (UM) setting the pace, the run hit off at a moderate pace. Felt pretty optimistic when I got on the bike around 60 meters behind Ong, started following with 2 UPNM guys. Few secs later, a whole bunch of UPNM guys caught up, and somehow after a few turns I found myself time-trialing alone eating dust.

So I ended up, struggling up the final hill before the 2nd transition feeling....... so.... totally.... SHAGGED! Tried to catch up with them on the run course and saw Ong and Amirul(UPNM) trailing Chan by around 100-200 meters during the U-turn. Finished out of the top 5 with Wong, while Ong fininshed 2nd with Amirul(UPNM) slightly behind. So... another climatic build up to the final MUDS! With Ong at a slight point advantage over Chan.

Run 1

Day2: woke up at an ungodly hour to avoid road closure at 4:00 a.m. Had a hearty breakfast of rotiboy, and set off in Nathan's Pajero with Ting, Tareef, Ong, E-ling and Wong. This time I was going as a ghost-runner since I didn't sign up for KOTR (BTW ghost-runner sounds waaaay cooler than Idiot-who-forgot-to-sign-up). Decided to follow Mr. Moey (7th eventually), and finished the race uneventfully besides causing some problems for Mr.Moey with the race officials.(Gomenasai...) Ong finished 1st in 10k Malaysian category! Wong was 8th. Ting 12th. Nathan and Tareef both finished with respectable timing.

Nathan (Wong in the background)

Champion!

A totally unrelated to racing yet kindly reminder: If you order at subway's using a buy 1 free 1 coupon and add another foot-long sandwich which is the special of the day flavor in a single receipt.......(if your brain starts hurting after reading this long line of nonsense, it's a good idea to stop reading and jump back to the pictures now) .....the foot-long will neither be considered as a footlong (rm18+) nor as a special of the day (rm7.50x2)... instead it will be charged as 2 6-inch sandwiches at a normal (rm10.90x2) price! Hahaha... certain members of kakithon caused a bit of a scene arguing with the cashier....

Announcement

To our new long distance track members,

Our schedule is the one posted on the right column.

There will be no training on 30th sept and 1 & 2 oct (this Friday, Saturday and Sunday) due to most of us going for muds 2 or king of the road.

If you have any questions you can call me(chau), write in the chatbox on the right or by facebook.

Thanks