Sunday, October 4, 2009

PUTRAJAYA IRONMAN 70.3

Why do they call it Ironman 70.3? bcos the distance that an athlete has to cover is 70.3 miles - swimming for 1.2 miles, cycling for 56 miles and running for 21.1 miles. Thast is equalvalent to half ironman lar...

Funny eh? for someone to endure the pain involve in taking part for such an event. Somemore got to pay one n train for at least 6 months. That was what I tot bfore ...... now I personally think that they are normal humanbeings who just want to prove to themselves that they can do it.

Today we were in Putrajaya witnessing such an event.



We were waiting for them during the biking session at the most difficult part - the hill just before Allamanda - here u can see real man struggling up the 3km hill. The slope is not very steep but try doing it 3 times in the hot afternoon sun ..... oso after a 1.2 miles swim.


We then went to see the running event - 21.1km distance.




That looks like Emma of Bike Boutique.....




She gave inspiration for Yam to take part in the Trithalon Sprint at A Famosa next year. Swim for 750m, cycle for 20km n run for 5km. Bolih kut





Ahmad Jauhari aka AJ .... a 3X ironman himself doing the last leg of a relay team.








n if u think that this is crazy. You shud go n watch the Real ironman event where they swim for 3.8km, cycle for 180km and run for 42.2km n they must finish it within 17 hours. WOW

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