K.O.T.H. as of Jan 8, 2006

I did King of the Hills (K.O.T.H.) in Lantau Island today. The detail can be found from http://www.seyonasia.com/koth/lt.html. I was doing the half marathon.. 14KM long. It was so cold today! 11C... Why I joined this race? Adrian asked me to do so. He is another guy who is addicted to this kind of race after trailwalker.

I arrived at pier at 8:15am for ferry to Mui Wo. Wow.. so many people joined this race. Most of them were strong Gwei Lo and Gwei Paul. It took us 30 mins to Mui Wo. Then, we took bus to the starting point. We saw many Bloomberg people there. Amanda, Phil and Sandy .. together with Adrian and I. We are healthy folks!! hahhaa..

Full marathon runners started at 10am. We, half marathon runners started at 10:15am. Once it started, we need to walk up to the hills. People were much faster than those in trailwalker. I am the slowest batch. I can't see Amanda, Phil and Sandy once it started. Adrian was always good in uphills. I can't see him in 15 mins. It took me about an hour to the top of the hills. Few people did very slow in downhills. I know they had knee problem.

Between CP1 and CP2, I was following a Chinese girl. She asked me to run over her. I said.. " that's all I can do!". It is better I am behind you!.. :) Then, we started to talk. She is from ADM Capital. Company sponsored them to do it. After CP2, it will be pretty flat. I can start to run faster now. I have done running training in the past few weeks. It does help! Even though I am quite tired, I can still run. I started to catch up some people. I almost fell down couple of times but luckily I didn't. Some guys carrying big backpacks walked from our finishing point. I guess they just finished camping. They cheered us and said, "Keep it going.. not many people were in front of you!" hahaa.. I said, "Yeah.. not that much! 300 people only! " :) Then, he said, "Nah.. I didnt see that many!"... hahaha. Liar! but thanks for that.

I finally finished it in 2 hours 41 mins. It is what I expected. Adrian finished it in 2 hours 21 mins. He is very satisfied what he did. I am ok with mine. If I didnt run that fast at the last stage of trail. I couldn't finish it less than 2 horus 45 mins. I actually picked a pink color T-shirt girl as my target to catch at the last stage of the trail. I finally ran over her. I definitely need more more training on uphills and downhills.

You know what I didnt have a chance to see view this time. People were really fast. No time to enjoy the view and I forgot to bring my camera again!

What's my next race? Reebok 15K on Jan 22. more training is needed. I have never done 15K run before.