Great Eastern Bubble Dash 2016 – Kuala Lumpur

23 October 2016

Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur

Registration fees for all categories

5KM bubble dash route

Gili Trawangan Day Trip

Bertolak dari Sengigi lebih kurang jam 8 pagi. Lepas selesai sarapan, terus aku hidupkan engin moto dan bermulalah solo ride dari sengigi ke jeti bangsal. Jalan ke jeti bangsal dari sengigi sangat lah senang. hanya jumpa satu simpang itu pun dah dekat2 nak sampai. permandangan sepanjang perjalanan agak menarik dengan view laut di sebelah kiri sambil menikmati keindahan alam ciptaan Allah. memang mengasyikkan. banyak tempat jugak aku berhenti seketika untuk layan keindahan alam dan ambik gambar sebagai kenangan. Bila tiba di Mangsit dah boleh nampak ketiga2 gili sebab distance antara gili yang agak dekat

Sundown Marathon 2016 review

Racekit collection:

REPC for oversea runners was set on the event date (3pm til 1am). I arrived at F1 pit building around 3.20pm and really shocked with the long Q. Really frustated with this as I was still tired travelling from JB and just arrived at my hotel and straight away walking to collect my racepack. Only managed to get my racepack after 1.5 hours standing under the scorching hot sun. I was lucky as most of us took more than 2 hours waiting for their turn to collect. This was my worst experience with REPC and really dissapointed with the way organizer handling and treating us overseas runners. Wasted our time and energy where we supposed to have a good rest/sleep for our night run.

Flag off time:

Flag off time for FM was scheduled at 12.30 am with several waves. Another dissapointment here where organizer didn't inform us about flag off with different waves at the first place. It tooks me another 1 hour to enter the start pen and our wave flag off time was 30 mins after gun time. Wasted another time and energy for this unnecessary thing. I could understand the organizer's decision by flagging off runners with different waves to avoid congestion with lots of narrow roads/paths. However, they should have informed runners at the first place and waves should be set by expected completed time instead of first come first serve basis. My marathon strategy ruined since the beginning of the race where i was unable to run as early as 8km mark as so many walkers blocking roads and being trapped at several narrow routes.

Route:

Should be named park marathon instead. I was expecting a nice route for us to enjoy beautiful Sg at night and what we got was a boring 30km park run. Wtf running in park at night for hours are not fun at all. Narrow-boring-hard surface tarmac make my run so mentally broken. As i started quite late, i was stucked several times where i could not even run due to congested-narrow/bottle neck route.

GPS track from my Soleus GPS 1.0 watch

Water station:
27k runners for all category registered for sundown marathon where organizer expected 60k runners to register for this. Sad that the water stations for sundown marathon was not ready to accommodate even 10k runners. Missed a few WS due to packed, crowded and if i not mistaken only 2/3 tables provided for each WS. I finally decided to stop at water station and then I realized that I already wasted 2 minutes queuing for a cup of 100 plus.

Volunteer: kudos to them. keep cheering runners and they did a great job

Finisher Medal:

Pengalaman menaiki kapal terbang ketika hamil 8 bulan

                        

Sepanjang mengandung, 6 kali wife aku naik kapal terbang dan kat sini aku nak cerita sikit la pasal pengalaman dia naik flight AirAsia ke luar negara ketika kandungan berusia 34 minggu.

Tips melancong ke Lombok

Makanan

Majoriti penduduk Lombok beragama Islam. Jadi, mencari makanan yang halalan yobiyan bukanlah satu masalah di Lombok. Makanan yang paling femes di sini adalah ayam taliwang. Ayam bakar yang disalut dengan rencah2 Lombok. Selepas mencuba ayam taliwang yang katanya paling famous di bandar Mataram, aku rate ayam taliwang ni biasa2 saja. jauh lagi best masakan2 sunda. jangan letakkan harapan yang tinggi sangat. tapi kalau dah sampai tak salah untuk mencuba sebab makanan ni hanya ada di Lombok sahaja dan jangan lupa jugak untuk cuba nasi ayam puyung (kedai makan berdekatan airport). Ni la makanan paling sedap yang aku try sepanjang di Lombok.

Transport

Sepanjang di sana aku menggunakan 3 jenis pengangkutan iaitu van supir, motorsikal dan teksi. Yang paling aku suka sudah tentulah naik motorsikal. Jalan yang tenang, pemandangan yang indah. pergghh. rindu pulak ride skuter layan angin pantai Lombok. Van supir terpaksa aku ambik sebab wife sarat mengandung 34 minggu. bayarannya pulak dalam 600k. agak mahal berbanding rate2 di Bali. manakala sewa motorsikal adalah 70k untuk tempoh 24 jam. mudah untuk sewa motorsikal di Lombok. bila aku sampai saja depan hotel, dah ada tokey2 motor sewa tunggu pelanggan dan staff hotel jugak masing2 deal dengan kita nak sewakan motor depa. Manakala untuk teksi, aku hire Blue bird taxi untuk ke jeti lembar. Taxi blue bird menggunakan meter. yang lain aku tak pasti.

Orang lombok

Orang lombok ni pada penilaian aku agak kasar dan kurang ajar jugak la. haha. aku pun tak tau macam mana nak describe. Dari awal2 sampai airport sampailah ke jeti lembar untuk ke Bali aku agak annoying jugak dengan ulat2 kat sana yang asyik push/beg kita non-stop. kalau tak dilayannya habis dimaki. jadi, elakkan dari layan ulat2 ni dan pekakkan telinga anda. Kalau muka/dress up ala2 orang lokal mungkin hidup anda akan aman tanpa gangguan.

Hotel

Kawasan tumpuan untuk industri perhotelan terletak di sebelah barat lombok (Sengigi) dan jugak di sebelah selatan lombok (Kuta Lombok). Pantai di singgigi agak kurang menarik berbanding di kuta di mana pasir2 kat sini warna hitam berbanding kuta yang view dia memang awesome. Tapi dari segi distance ke bandar, gili trawangan dan pilihan hotel/resort yang lebih menarik, hotel2 di Senggigi lebih menjadi tumpuan.

 Pantai di Sengigi

Pantai di Kuta Lombok

Harap gambar kat atas ni dapat membantu korang buat decision.

Kos

Kos melancong di Lombok agak sedikit mahal berbanding Bali. Mungkin kerana demand di Bali lebih tinggi dan persaingan perniagaan yang lebih. 

Tempat2 menarik untuk dilawati

Beberapa tempat menarik yang sempat aku dilawati adalah seperti berikut:
Pantai Kuta Lombok, Pantai Mawun, Pantai Selok Belanak, Pantai Tanjung A'an, Astari Cafe, Gili Trawangan, Sunset view di Mangsit. Banyak lagi tempat2 menarik yang tak sempat aku lawati. next trip mungkin