KC & the Sunshine Runners

Monday, September 14, 2015

Gasing Hill Trail Running

Trail running at Bukit Gasing on a hazy Sunday morning, 13 Sept 2015. Though the haze situation is not encouraging, the condition of air quality is OK when surrounded by trees.

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At Gasing Hill wooden arch main gate

At Kerinchi Park of Bukit Gasing

Concrete Suspension Bridge of Bukit Gasing

View from below

The park area of Gasing Hill

Staircase leading to Gasing Hill Concrete Suspension Bridge

Run back to the standard Gasing Hill loop ... Adelyn, Lana and Shulin

The ladies in jumping pose

At Indian temple of Bukit Gasing

After running for about 9.5km, the team is almost back at the trail head

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Sunday, September 06, 2015

Trail running at FRIM Kepong with a group of RHB Bank colleagues and friends on Saturday 5 Sep 2015 ... after the early morning rain, the ground was wet, and the air was fresh devoid of haze that engulfed Kuala Lumpur for the past few days.

With the wet ground, though it was nice to run, the trails were infested with leeches; almost all the runners were attacked by leeches. One “inquisitive” leech even tried to go through the shoelace hole of Yana. Not able to advance nor retract, it was stuck there with half the body violently trying to backtrack.

Nevertheless, it was a fun run traversing from Rover track to Pacat trail, passing by the orang alsi hut; then to Steroid hill, Salem high country and returned via Mountain Bike track. A journey that took almost 3 hours 15 minutes.

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At Canopy Walkway

(left): Wilson, LimHY, Lana, Yana, Dphany, Bruno, Yoke Leng, KC

At orang asli hut area

Run through the jungle (only hills in FRIM)

A good and gracious jump

Yana

Lana

Dphany

At Salem High Country

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Sunday, August 23, 2015

Bukit Kiara Trail Running

Trail running at Bukit Kiara with a group of RHB Bank colleagues and friends on Saturday 22 August 2015 … This is the first time that the group go for trail running other than the usual trekking trips.

Bukit Kiara is the choice location as the various trails, charted by the mountain bikers, are most pleasant to run amid the cool shade in the hills. Besides, another criteria most favoured by the ladies are the absent of leeches. As for the mosquitoes, we can always outrun them to avoid being attacked.

From the carpark, we ran towards the View Point direction. Blocked by the high fencing, we then continued via Snakes and Ladder trail to the crossroad area. The group then made a loop at the extended path of 2K trail. We have a good round of photos shoot with the mountain bikes that the bikers were most glad to lent them to us. We then returned to the carpark covering a distance of about 10km in 3 hours.

Looks like we have many potential trail runners in this group.

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Group photo at Taman Lembah Kiara before the start of trail run

Yana … who likes trail running and road running

Dphany, Yoke Leng and Bruno (Mars) :-)

No passing through to View Point … we could only take a photo here with the high-fencing as background instead of the skyline of Kuala Lumpur

At the crossroad area … the energetic and vibrant all ladies’ photo – when assembling all the ladies, someone quipped that the word “all” sounds like “old”

At the 2K trail … Josephine, Yana while Lana is trailing behind

Yana and Lana … helping one another in the stretching exercise

Trail runners turn bikers

Another group photo where the pose is being enhanced by the mountain bikers :-)

Posted by KC Leong

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Puchong Hill Trekking

Leading a group of USJ Zhineng chi gong members and friends for trekking at Puchong Hill on Sunday, 16 August 2015.

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Sunday, August 09, 2015

Broga Hill and Tok Wan Trail

A few of the RHB colleagues and friend went for a trekking trip at Broga Hill and Tok Wan Trail on Saturday, 8 August 2015.

With a view to the distant horizons, Broga Hill attracts many outdoor enthusiasts and nature-loving people for a good trek to the peak. The hill was well marked, tidy and clean; thanks to the RHB mountaineers who volunteer every weekend to keep the place clean. Certain steep slope areas are guided by thick ropes to prevent any untoward incidents. There are wooden benches being erected which are good for taking a breather.

Though there are many people at Broga Hill, there were hardly anyone at Tok Wan Trail. After the previous day’s rain, it was very cooling there. Leading the pack, I ran into many of the spider webs lined across the trail.

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A group photo at the main gate of Broga Hill, mark by the RHB signage

(left): KC, Patric, Khoo Ban Yu, Khoo Hock Hin, Lana, Dphany, Shu-Lin, Ivy Wong, Yoke Leng and hubby, and Voon.

The vibrant ladies

Another group photo at the middle hill … Bro, do you see the birds up there?

The direction to Broga Hill peak; Tok Wan trail is the mountain behind this hill

Supported by two bolsters, this is a good place to show the legs :-)

Broga Hill peak is nicely decorated with prayer flags

At Tok Wan Trail peak

The mountain cafeteria always attract crowd

Our mamak stall operates by Khoo Ban Yu who made teh tarik even at Sayat-Sayat hut during Mount Kinabalu trekking trip

Passing by a giant tree

Performing some aerobic movement on the boulders

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Sunday, August 02, 2015

Puchong Hill Trekking

Leading a few fellow RHB colleagues and friends for a trekking at Puchong Hill on Saturday, 1 August 2015. I led the group to trek one round at the standard loop, then detour to the waterfall.

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