Penguin-2 and Penguin-11 are going for full marathon whereas Penguin-1 only goes for Half, a bit lazy compared to the other two penguin runners. Last Sunday’s Seremban Half marathon would be a good warm-up race for the three runners.
The Malacca Marathon is organized by Malacca City Council Historic City of Malaysia. The starting point is at the Stadium Tun Fatimah, Bukit Serindit. The race dateis set for Sunday, 17th July 2005, time 4:30am "gun off".
We are lucky this time as Penguin-11's cousin sister lives in Malacca and she actually helped us with the registration, booking of hotel, etc.
We will be staying at the Tien Hao Kong hotel (but sounded like a temple). I was told that it is merely 10 minutes’ drive from the heart of historical city center of Malacca & quite near to the race venue.
I was told that few of Pacesetters members will be staying at the Hotel Tan Kim Hock which is just opposite this hotel. It is going to be fun as we will be meeting other Pacesetters members around the area.
Last year’s Happenings
Due to low participation of the full marathon category, Penguin-2 told us that he was running alone at the outer perimeter near a Chinese cemetery. In the darkness, he saw one lady with long hair was standing at the bus-stand waiting for… and at that moment, there was a gush of strong wind blowing. That really scared the hell out of him: with that, his energy level was shot up and he was surging forward like an unleashed stallion.
Through numerous marathon experiences, Penguin-6 brought along a few Ringgit notes. It was real handy. When the water-stations had run out of drinks or already “closed shop”, he just detoured to the sundry shop next to the road and purchased the soft drinks. I was told that he even helped another high-and-dry runner with a can of much-needed, ice-cold 100 Plus drink. Well, let see what it is like this year.
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