Non Running withdrawal syndrome

Its been 6 days since my last run(24th July), i am sluggish, lazy & depressed because there are no more endorphins pumping in my veins... i neeed to run but whenever i run a step or two, there is a sharp pain in my rignt ankle...

I guess being fat & running does not go hand in hand.. need to recover soon to run & build stamina for the King Of The Road... its in 10 days time!!!


My routine .. before i sleep... wraps of "pigs in blanket"

Cant run...but can cook :)

When you dont run, you have a lot of time to do other stuff... with my reserve of Frozen pasta sauce running low... time to whip up a batch of home made meat balls with cream, 'al Fredo' style..

Nb: Ingredients are fresh, including meatballs... however for the base sauce,its more economical to cook from the jar than to actually cook from scratch...thats the, table cream + stock + cheese and thickener...


Panchetta... need i say more... lovely lovely pork.... slurpp

I gave a batch of the sauce and pasta to a good friend of mine.. apparently her very clever dog "Rum" was smart enough to take 1 pack of pasta " Penne rigate" and 1 pack of sauce... and had a great Sunday Meal... its a dogs life

The culprit... looking all so innocent" it wasnt me"

Traditonal Help ...

Drastic Measures... with The King Of The Road, looming around the corner, I have an in house doctor in the office... My colleague is studying Chinese Medicine... So for Immediate results, Acupuncture

25th July... treatment for shin splits and Ankle "clicking"

Apparently.. my ankle is swollen... might have a slight sprain without even knowing... from the sunday trials i suspect

26th July second sessions... "doctors advice" stay off running if i even think about running for the King Of The Road...

Dammit... 14 days to 10K run... better rest and heal fastest possible...

Weight & Ankle Problems

After my trials... on Sunday, my following runs, on Tuesday (22nd July) caused some nagging pain in my right ankle... maybe to make matters worse... i put in some slope running... sigh!! terrible 6k..

Thursday (24th July)... ankle got from bad to worse... Felt worse than Tuesday. Managed to run only 4K.... bad bad ... with King Of the Road around the corner... need to do something about it..

King Of The Road Trials 1

Sunday morning...breaking off from my traditionally sluggish Sunday.. i woke up early to attempt the Adidas King Of the Road..10Kilometer...

After My stake out last Thursday.. i gotta try it out to make sure i save myself some face & also find out will i be the last to complete the race...

As i previously mentioned being a honey moon runner... slopes dont agree with me.. form the start.. heading towards the persiaran roundabout.. my right shin start giving me the splits... i trudged on and just outside the post office i stopped to stretch my right shin..

Continued on a very difficult & anti gravity upslope to the Kayangan roundabout.. here i bumped into 4 runners, going the opposite direction... quite elderly... but seem to have more breath than me.. with the motivational Pace setters singlet... yellow and blue. When you are in the same predicament.. running, you are always friendly to other runnera.. its a universal *sweat&toil* situation.. we exchanged the 'morning' greeting & they sped away.. they look much more like runners than my fat self.

The straight stretch along the Concorde Hotel... looked very very long... 1st split.. traffic light at Concorde Hotel.. 30:28 @ 4.3Km.. looked promising..:)..running and walking... pushing myself with the lamp post, and bridges as my mini goals.. i reached the traffic light junction of Persiaran Dato Menteri, 2nd split 48:50 @ 6.5 Km..

Initially i set a ceiling time of 90 minutes for my trials... but with 4.5 kilometer to go.. and almost half the time left... i started to relax & concentrate on my muscles not freezing up. So its running along the Persiaran Dato Menteri.. pass Mestika roundabout to Permai round about. taking the 9 O clock exit with Mcdonalds on my right and the Shah Alam stadium in sight, I controlled my pace to make sure i can finish... i could feel myself running empty and out of gas.

I got to the Setiajasa round about...its one bloody BIG round about... almost like a 400Meter olympic sized lap.. took the 3 O clock exit and its the final stretch to the finish line.. however, this final stretch is upslope... pushing my fat ass up the slope, i nearly slowed down to a walk... but my mind was pushing my body to put 1 step at a time to the end.. finished @ 74:43:70.. (see attached photo) and i felt like dying..

All this time i was running, the motivation (dangled carrot) was that after the run, i will be going to Klang to have my dried Bah Kut Teh for Breakfast... hey with all this running we gotta refuel right ...

Fei Kay Dry Bah Kut Teh

After the king of the road trials... i finally get my dangled carrot..

Bah Kut Teh, whats there not to like.... Pork.. in thick tasty soup.. :) The dry bah kut teh which Fei Kay serves... its actually like a dry stew pork... with ladies finger, dark dark soy sauce, a ton of dried chili and finally the "Pièce de résistance" very very thinly sliced dried cuttlefish.. all this fried &cooked to perfection with pork. Its a very tasty & good complement to plain ol' rice served up with lots of fried shallots... Just writting about it makes my mouth salivate..

All this is still served up with the original souped bah kut teh... as BKT is very individualistic... there are always many many different styles, & preferences... i say to each our own .. i like the thick Klang style soup... hope you have the time to try it and agree with me...

Damm... gotta run more to burn off the BKT... *slurrppss*

Porky Porky Noodles..:)

If you continue to read my blog, specially on my pursuit on food ... you will realize that i love love love Pork....

From the crispy fried skin of the pork lard, to the BBQ honey glazed (char siew), specially the roast pork(siew yok)..this list goes on and on.. N.B spare parts.. i only take the stomach..

To cut my drooling on pork short i would like to recommend what i would call daily grub.. food we can eat for normal price.. thats specially porky and taste very nice

Located just next Subang Jaya Taipan USJ.. Its located at Restaurant Tien Tien Fatt @ Penang Pork Mee stall..introduced to me by a good friend of mine..

Regular priced.. At time of posting rm 5.30 for a big bowl, picture above.. Dry mince pork noodle with chinese flat noodles(hor fun)... notice the fried lard & the lovely swirls of dark sauce... simply heavenly :). Served with a bowl of murky (but ever so tasty) pork soup, with pork balls & sliced pork.. the soup is specially tasty because all the meat and liver, is cooked in it, thus releasing the full porky flavor...

Gotta have it....

King Of the Road

Yikes... I went to check out the route for the Shah Alam, Adidas King Of the Road today.....quite a lot of slopes also.... hills *sweat sweat*

See i have been a honey moon runner... because i have been training on relatively flat ground... looking at all the slopes ... i really have to incorporate.. up hill and down hill training... apparently... up and down uses different kind of muscles.. according to Runners World :).. Up hill causes stress on the shins. Downhill on the glutes..

the 10K route is the red line...

King Of the Road... I wish..

Time to hit the trail..

We're going the distance

Pushing the fat body... i did it, 8 laps 68:08 mins of the Kiara valley lake.. located in Tmn Tun...

It was not the ideal full running... but alas.. i pushed my body to take 8 kilometers..As i build up my stamina for the 10 Kilometer run, i try to run continously for at least 25 minutes (3kilometer). Take a 3 minute brisk walk break then run for another 25 minutes & continue back and forth till i complete 8 laps..

See fat people like me .. are not built like the kenyans/athletes who complete 1 kilometer below six minutes. My best time to date is a 7:30 minutes/kilometer. In fact the alternate day running to which i am training...hopefully will take me through my first run. The weather is trying very hard to sabotage my fat sweating efforts.

Training real hard for the Adidas King of the Road... Shah Alam on August 10th..

Run...on !!