A Second Chance: Maggie Kim, An Inspirational Lady

I first got to know Maggie through Malaysia Women Marathon (MWM) while corresponding with the race director, Karen Loh in late 2012.

Our first meeting was when she kindly invited me to join a few other ladies to welcome Ms Kathrine Switzer at LCCT in Apr.

Through these few months; before and after MWM, I followed her running exploits through her FB updates and am very impressed at what a strong runner she is. She is a podium-placing runner and can easily beat top women runners, half her age! Her daily training regime is enviable too. This is one disciplined and determined runner, I tell you.

She coaches too and she once promised me that through her coaching, she’ll make sure her charges be able to run her PB timing for marathon. That’s 3:32 hours folks! No kidding!

A week ago, she invited some runners to a FITLINE training where she will be talking about her running experience and using the FITLINE products too. 

While waiting for the training talk to start, Maggie graciously showed me a few stretching exercises to help me with my Plantar Fasciitis issues.

I have yet to try any of them so I cannot vouch for them but Maggie told me that her energy level, recovery and timing improved tremendously using the products.

While I wasn’t all that interested in the MLM module of FITLINE, I was certainly inspired listening to Maggie, which was why I attended it in the first place.

Maggie, talking about her experiences on running – in Jakarta, in Auckland and coming back to Malaysia.

For such a strong runner, it was surprising to know that she underwent a double knee surgery in 2009 and had to go through months of grueling physiotherapies and had even stopped running. She seeked all sorts of treatments and alternatives to return to running and had almost given up.

Then, she learnt about cartilage injection to restore some of the lubrication lost and this treatment had help her come back strong to running again.

With what she calls her second chance to running, Maggie sure isn’t resting on her laurels!

After SCKLM 2013 was postponed, she needed to peak somewhere and decided at the last minute to enter the Half Marathon at Larian Bendang in Kedah. She not only was the Women Champion in the run, she improved her timing by 8minutes!

She went on to do the King’s Cup 56th Pattaya Marathon and did it in 3:53:15. The feat earned her a number 3 placing! Plus 19 minutes shaved off from her MWM time.

That’s only a couple of races that she did in July and August! Awesome lady, she truly is. ^^

It’s such a great honour to know such an inspiring lady.

So what’s my excuse for not training and not doing my best again?

One for the album. Nannoor, Maggie and me.