Penang Bridge Marathon - June 24th, 2007

The Bridge

Penang Bridge, a 13.5 kilometre architectural wonder is the site of the Penang Bridge International Marathon 2006. It connects mainland Peninsula Malaysia to Penang island, well known to visitors from all over the world as the 'Pearl of the Orient.' This spectacular bridge, the longest in Asia and reputedly the third longest in the world begins at the mainland Seberang Jaya Toll centre, then spans over to a small island midway and reaches the island near University Sains Malaysia (USM) at Minden. - Source from LLM

Penang here we come, the Mountain Top, Ocean Deep group will be running the 44.195km and 22.3km leading the way will be our Sahara Marathon man .. Ngae, Ironman Ben Swee and the marathoner Eric , Yee Hua and Siok Bee doing the 41.195km and not forgetting Heng, his first marathon... reason is to prepare for the Langkawi Ironman next February. and probably me....will be running my 1st ever Penang Marathon as i have been running the 22.3km all this while...

Whilst the rest will do the 22.3km. ( YeohSC, Siok Leng, Maryann, Lee, Yap, Amanda, Pathma, Chiam, Kelvin, Vivian, Janet, MC, Horn, Yan, Julie) and 10km leslie.. (he will be back for SIM '07)

The race time are as follows :

Marathon : 3.00am

Half Marathon : 4.30am

The team will be leaving on Sat..... to Penang. hmmm will go for carbo loading instead of pasta, it will be assam laksa, nasi kandar, mee yoke, lobak, popiah etc before the run.....as it will give the runners the enery to run after tasting the Penang food

Siok Bee will be carrying some ringgit during the run, 'cos at 3/4 mark.. the route will pass a kopi tiam which sells roti bakar which she would not want to miss .... won't be surprised if you see her at the kopi tiam having breakfast before heading back to the finishing line...

Its a week more to the race....... stay healthy all and do active exercise....rest 2 days for the race...... sleep early next week 'cos some of you might not be sleeping on the eve of the race day in view of the starting time...

At SIM 06


Group makan after the SIM 06 run


Tony Q