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Full Marathon Maintenance South East Asia

7 December 2019, 42.195km Vientiane International Marathon

  Coming out of the dragon’s mouth alive. 2019 – finished 13 FM, chased for BQ, recovered from a physical weakness at year end, i think i am ready for 2020! Introduction Vientiane is my last FM and final race for 2019. Planned 3 months earlier, the intent was to have a mum-daughter-sister bonding session. […]

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South East Asia Training ultra running

1 December 2019, 60km Brunei Unexpected Kingdom Ultra Marathon

60km is a new distance for me. An ultra runner in the bag. Yay. Race Pack We arrived in Brunei by car, 2 hour drive from Miri. Race pack collection was scheduled throughout the week, but the organiser was kind enough to accommodate foreigners arriving on the day before race start for collection. It was […]

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Malaysia South East Asia triathlon

17 November 2018, Ironman 70.3 Relay, Langkawi Malaysia

Team relay is great fun. We are the Team Thirteen Pack. Who coined it? Well, we expect nothing less from Jan Brinkhorst. Haha… So the story goes, that Shauqie and i supposedly claim the 6-pack (abdominal), and Jan with that 1-pack (happiness), which when add together makes us a “Thirteen”. Shauqie as the swimmer, and […]

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Hills South East Asia Trail Running

4 November 2018, Vang Vieng 18km Trail, Laos

The elevation profile is a far cry from the actual terrain itself. After an almost 4 hour minivan ride, we arrived at Vang Vieng town, and walked to INTHIRA hotel for our race pack before we drop off our luggage at Simon Riverside Hotel. The view of Nam Song river is simply breathtaking. I came […]