Going Bananas On Mother's Day

Doing a relay run with the family on Mother's Day? FUN!! FUN! FUN! For this mommy, at least. And a few other mommies too, at the Pisang Relay Run 2013in Taman Buki Jalil. ^^

At 7.30am the warm up session begins, not the usual-from-dunno-what-gym-pumped-with-music warm up but a rather quiet, but usual pre-run warm-up.

Frank Chong of Running Lab giving a pre-race briefing here. He asked hubby where I was, while I was in the toilet. hehehe

Son whispered "mommy femes" to hubby as a few more people said hello to me and the family. Mommy femes ka? Takde la. Just happen that runners are one friendly lot. Right, runners? :-)

The friendly people who said hello:

 May from GC

 Shafinaz, an FB friend whom I finally met today. Thank you for dropping by my blog!

Tri Stupe and team, not only capable of caring for his banana, he's plenty adept with running and taking photos too, simultaneously. He's great with the kids too.

Guy and her awesome son who ran really fast despite the heat today. Well done! Future long distance runner?

Remember her and her posse doing the fun run at the World Kidney Run? The senorita? :-)

 Also Jason who was "working" instead of running.

We were encouraged to bring our own bottle and cups and here's the refreshment table, with the teams'/runners' bottles.

All neatly placed.

It was a rather hot morning and we immediately face an incline at the start of the run. I was having problem breathing through my stuffed nose and breathing through my mouth really made it feel dry. After the incline of just a few hundred metres, I was already questioning my sanity running this. Such a wuss. huhuhu

Well, I did spend the Friday just sleeping off my flu/fever wooziness. Saturday wasn't any better either. But hey! Made it in one piece to pass the banana to Zaini, running 18min+ for the 2.72km loop (yeah, slooooowwww) and taking over camera duties from him.

A little later, he passed by at the halfway mark (the route made runners pass those waiting at the start line at the halfway point, which is good - for morale/support boost & also for photo taking) and Raimie & I prepared for Raimie's turn and waited at the start line.

Son didn't actually need to have Mommy tagging alongside him, and he reckoned that he'll do fine without a "pacer" but Mommy didn't mind. At the very least, Mommy can help hold a water bottle for him and give him a drink when he's thirsty. He's been such a support for Mommy that Mommy wanted to return the favour. ;)

So we ran together and that boy, despite telling me that's he's tired or that's his heart felt like it wanted to burst or that his legs hurt, didn't stop yapping all through the run. Yup, we talked and chatted a lot. He can talk, that boy.

He kept complaining that I ran too fast but then, he also told me that it's nicer to run with me than Daddy. Sssshhh don't tell the Daddy. LOL Daddy doesn't care much of all his shenanigans,  that's why. Mommy pulak is always a sucker for her boy, y'know. ;-)

Some photos of the baton/banana passing:

 Let go of the pisang, Stupe! LOL

 Pi & Sang, stealthily doing the handing over.

The Nippon mari Acorn Team (well, they wore a running vest with an acorn logo) with yup, a banana on the runner's head. Mighty fast banana, I might add.

Boring runner banana passing style. ekeke

My nose got cleared up doing the second loop (third one for the family, first loop for Son) so running thereafter felt easier. Thank goodness. *wipe sweat*. Finished with son after his first loop and immediately ran off to do the second loop for the team. By this time, I already ran about 5.40km (sikit saja) and on to do another 2.70km. Rested and took photos for abit after my loop and hubby did his, before it was time for Raimie to do the final loop and I tagged along.

Son & hubby ran 2.72km twice, and I the glutton ran a total of 11km. Fun in the sun run. :-) The family took a total of 2hours and 5minutes to complete six 2.72km loops (approximately 16.32km) but who cares? We had FUN!

All loops done, and it's time to collect the nice medal. Every runner received a medal. If shaped like a banana, nicer hor? But this one also nice lah. ^^

Then, makan time!

Got fried bihun, got sandwiches, got kueh-mueh, got fruits. Eat, eat, eat. Raimie was sure super hungry after the run and walloped quite a bit of food. (p.s photo is not of Raimie Heh heh)

Then, we waited around for the lucky draw,

We weren't lucky enough to enough to get anything though. Booohooo!!!!

Two boys very happy completing their run.

Raimie asked me whether the venue would still be at Taman Bukit Jalil next year when we were on our way back home. He said he wanted to join again next year.

And that, is what I consider a successful run. Son having a blast and actually looking forward to another one. So, thank you to the race organiser and also to the volunteers, especially to the ones blasting/spraying us with cooling water on the route. 

Hope to see you again next year! Pisang or no pisang. ^^

p.s. Taman Bukit Jalil has a lot of monkeys (real ones) and I guess they sure were kenyang on Sunday because all the lembik bananas got "donated" to the monkeys.