- MR25 Progress Series 10km Run (Race #1) -

This race review is long overdue. A thousand apologies for the delay. We've been busy with things in our life ......

This one race we at Freedom Freaks has been looking forward to.
The distance for the 1st series of the Progressive Series is 10km which is equivalent to 1 loop around MacRitchie Reservoir.

- The route map -

Just a recap on the team members of the 2 teams that we sent,
Here are the names of participants,

Team 1:
Halim Billiejoe (C)
Izat Gump
Tam Yaoming
Asree
Izhar Mohd
Ronald Heng

Team 2:
Halim Abs (C)
Ridzwan Idris
Johan Aidil
Afuq
Kurniawan Raymond
Jumadi 

Individual runners:
Sam E
Ariffin

As the registration period starts from 6am to 645am, most of us arrived early to collect our individual's bib which will be used for the whole series and did the normal preparation needed for the run.
Runners are always eager on racedays ..... That's normal I guess.
And also received news that Afuq from Team 2 was not able to run today due to having some minor illness.

- Team 1 (Ming, Asree, Izhar, Izat, Ronald, Halim BJ) -

- Team 2 (Kurniawan, Halim Abs, Jumadi, Ridzwan, Johan) Afuq absent -

- The Freaks before the race -

The race flag-off at abt 0715hrs after a delay of 15 minutes. The delay was maybe to cater to the latecomers.
It was an awesome weather to run in as it was raining quite heavily the night before. A safety briefing was given before flag-off and runners were advised to take care of each other during the run as no marshals were deployed along the route other than the one and only water-point.

- Eagerly waiting for the flag-off -

- Off we go .... !!! -

The cloudy weather was really helpful to us. And also, the atmosphere was quite awesome as there are not many runners joining in the race. There was only one water point at the 4km mark but they were serving pocari sweat which was really needed. It was relatively easy to navigate as there were arrow markers along the path too. The last 2km was a breeze too as it was on a flat route.

The Finishers:

- Ming (41.14mins - 4th Overall) -

- Izat (42.04mins - 6th Overall) -

- Sam (46.12mins - 16th Overall) -

- Izhar (49.11mins - 30th Overall) -

- Ronald (51.04mins - 37th Overall) -

- Asree (52.13mins - 43rd Overall) -

- Ariffin (53.59mins - 45th Overall) -

- Halim BJ (55.45mins - 47th Overall) -

- Jumadi (55.49mins - 48th Overall) -

- Johan (1hr 1.41mins - 52nd Overall) -

- Halim Abs (1hr 4.26mins - 56th Overall) -

- Ridzwan (1hr 7.28mins - 57th Overall) -

- Kurniawan (1hr 9.24mins - 60th Overall) -

Runners staying back after the run were entered into the lucky draw, giving them a chance to win 6 prizes. The prizes includes socks, running tees and 2 separate sets of return air tickets from Perth to take part in the Perth City to Surf Marathon Sponsored by Perth City to Surf Marathon.

Official Results:

- Men's Open Result -

- The FREAKS after the run. Happy people !! -

- Take note !! This doesn't apply in races ..... -

Overall, we are happy with our performances individually, though we can still do better in future runs.
Looking forward to the 2nd series which is on 6th May 2012. A 15km run this time.
Not sure what the route is gonna be. We will update once more infos are out.
Thanks for the time.

All photos are credit to our awesome camera lady, Sasha Farina.

- TNF100 Singapore 2012 -

- TNF100 Singapore 2012 -

Another event to look forward to. It's a trail run event by the way.
This is the most difficult event that most of us had run in.
Last year, few of us took part in the team event. Let's see how many of us are interested to take part this year.
For more info, click here.
(It's not updated yet though. Pls refer to it again in May 2012.)

Let's go !! We can, we will ...... !!

Sundown 2012 Lunar New Year Photo Contest. We are chosen !!

This pic was selected to be in the Sundown 2012 Lunar New Year Photo Contest.

Pls click on the link below and "LIKE" the picture.
Sundown 2012 Lunar New Year Photo Contest
Hope we can win in the contest.
2 Spi Belt up for grabs for 2 lucky guys !!

All the best for us ......

- Standard Chartered KL Marathon 2012 -

We are gonna rock KL this June !!! Watch out for the Freaks running on the streets of KL.
More details here: http://www.kl-marathon.com/

Discussions to be done on Freedom Freaks' FB page.
- Freedom Freaks -

Stay tune for more updates from us.

- Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012 -

Few of the Freaks has decided to do something different to usher in the new year. While many others are partying hard, we did a 18km run which started from ECP Macdonald's to Marina Square and then return back to where we started. Initially planned to run a 20.12km loop, but due to many road closures, we only managed to do a 18km run. No complaints since we had fun along the way wishing strangers 'Happy New Year'.

- The Freaks who started the run -

 As always, there are lots of camwhoring sessions along the way and also we did stopped at the Nicoll Highway bridge for quite a while to do the counting down, watching the fireworks display and playing with our own fireworks which was supplied by Meng Chan.

- The fireworks viewed from Nicoll Highway bridge. Blocked by some buildings.

 

- Having some fun playing with the mini fireworks on our own. -

                

- Adults know how to have fun too. -

           

- And we literally smoked-out the whole area.-

                              

After having so much fun at the bridge, we proceed with our run and meet up with 2 more of our members, the lovebirds, Edan and Noreen. The distance to Marina Square was a short one, but it took us quite some time to reach there because of the road closures and the route was jam-packed with humans who did their countdown somewhere near there.

Our one and only water point at Marina Square. The place was full of many party-goers but we still have time to chill a bit and camwhore !!

- As we move along, more pics to snap !!-

- Just a few more .... We sneaked in to take this pic !! -

- Last 1 click to go. Check out the tired and sleepy faces. - 

 It was already 2am+ when we reached at ECP Macdonald's. But the place was still packed with people. It was a tiring 18km run but overall, we had lots of fun. 2011 has left us and so it's time to look forward to a better, fitter and faster new year ahead of us.

- 1 more before we go own our separate ways -

- Tour de Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012 - by absoluthal at Garmin Connect - Details


Looking forward to more LSDs in the coming weeks .......  

*Credits to Meng Chan and Alexander Asree for the pics. Thanks a lot !!

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