RSM HIKERS: Penang Beach Run 2009

Penang Beach Carnival was held in Batu Ferringhi with the follwoing events : -
1. Beach Run
2. Greasy Pole
3. Paintball
4. Beach Futsal / Football
5. Pillow Fight
6. Tug of War
7. Jigsaw Puzzle
8. Beach Volleyball
9. Cooking
10. Kayak & Optimist
11. Fishing
12. Skimboarding
13. Dragon Boat Race
14. Sand Castle Building

This time, only 3 RSM Hikers joint the 10K Beach Run Event possibility due to the tiredness from the Penang Bridge Marathon a week ago.

The running distance is 10km with total 1.6 km run on the sand. The starting point is the beach behind Golden Sand hotel and has to run 800m on the sand followed by tar road toward the Teluk Bahang. Before Mutiara Hotel, you has to make a U-turn and return to Golden Sand Hotel. The number of participants seems to be very few which could be due to less of publicity or might be the same reason - need to have more rest after the Penang bridge run. The event started at 7.25am and flag off by our lady state exco. Running on sand is not easy as compare to solid road, you need to use more energy to overcome the softness of the sand. How difficult you described also useless, many runners still able to run very fast and finished with the impressive time including Kimura san which took 50 mins to complete the run and rank # 7th in Men Veteran Group. Congratulation to you Kimura san.

Men Veteran result : -

Chin soi, Ooi TS finished 16th with the time 59 mins (Guess only).

The participants for Women Veteran group was so little. I guessed all the women veteran participants got the medal by default (Kia lo pun e than pai).

You can see our PAAA secretary still waiting for our women veteran to reach the finishing line.

Hey, kawan kat jalan sana ada women veteran lagi ka ? Sini belum cukup orang lagi la. Kalau nampak, panggil diapa lari cepat, sini orang dok lama tunggu la.

Our members at the finishing line (Holding the wrong category sign).