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| Malaysian made it - Kuilin is the champion for Women Category in this year's climbathon - bravo, Malaysian are all very proud of you. |
Venue: Mount. Kota Kinabalu Sabah
Last weekend finally get to experience the trail of mountain running. It was indeed one of a kind experience. The trail of catching up on very strict race qualifying time within the hazardous surrounding of slippery path, high altitude terrain and thin air. But it was the last of its kind or rather the final event of this race series, where the organizer would change the race format of not including the summit/peak in the next year race. Below are pictures of moment that could share with everyone.
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| New found buddies... |
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| All set to conquer the mountain, or is it possible? |
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| With the symbolic icon of Mt. KK Climbathon, a very responsible and serious race director and a very nice gentleman |
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| Doc Shara (left) and Tony (centre) with Alex (bib 689) whom went up mountain twice back to back, not sure how far he went up to on Sunday, but on Saturday, he went as far as 8km (the peak is 8.72km). Su (right, bib 403) reached 8.5km but denied qualification only because she was a few minutes late. Nevertheless they were heroes of the day. |
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| Old gingers - Captain Tony Quay with the 2 veterans from Ipoh both made it within the qualified time. Hash runners seems to be better survivors. |
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| Jasni and Affindi, before the race, both very strong runners from KL. Both made it within 4:20+ up and down the mountain.  |
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| Solomon ambassadors, Kilian (004) Greg (019) and Luis Alberto (003), Toru (005) at the starting line with the rest of the world class skyrunners. |
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| The man whom arrive first at the peak, and still the record holder for KK climbathon, Marco de Gasperi. Fantastic sportmanship seen in him, smiling upon reaching the finishing line even though he fell and lost his title to Kilian. However, if this is the last year of Climbathon, then he will be the record holder forever. |
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| Complete line up of the elites. |
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| Expression of many of the participants at the finishing line. |
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| Wonderful icons of the KK climbathon. Year in and out, these family will turn up and does the signature warming up cheering for Nippon. And all of them are super fast! |
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| Friends celebrating their experience through the toughest mountain race. |
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| 3 more heroes of the day. Jasni, Affindi, and Ong Wei Xing. All completed the race at 4:15, 4:18, and 4:22 respectively. You may think this is just another race, but for those who has been there can tell you how tough it is. These gentlemen made it despite the fact that they are more of road racers and not trail runners, not sure about Affindi, but Jasni and WeiXiang has never been to Mount KK before and I doubt they have race in mountain before this. And all of them only arrive one or two days before the race therefore absolutely no opportunity for acclimatization. Wei Xiang only landed the night before and he look fantastic when he reached the finishing line. These guys are tough! |
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| Hahaha...at the peak. Managed to reach 7.8-7.9 km, and seeing many climbers that was turned away by the marshals. Took a moment to enjoy view and sometimes disqualified may not be a bad thing. Looking back, if managed to secure the band, would have race very quickly down, the donkey ear mountain and this moment would not be there. Like Kilian put it, half an hour lost in the race is half an hour gain (to enjoy) the mountain. |
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| Another gentleman met in the mountain and took a shot with cellphone cam. Sorry, for forgotten your name, hope you enjoyed your trip. |
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| Met Winston and on the way down, found this plaque that says 7.5km point. |
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| Bro Alam Shah. We enjoyed ourselves at the peak didn't we? The sun tan turned to sun burn, bro.... |
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| Another new friend met at the rock face |
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| Hopefully next year the organizer will retain the event to race to the peak instead of just run on the trail |
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| Bib with the autograph of the top 2 winners |
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