♔ Le Blue Sky de Tea Wonderland ♔ 〉阿茶乐园之雨后天晴 : Pre-MUDS 2012

Arrrgh, been busy for one month already, but busy for what leh? Aiya, busy planning and prepare for coming Malakoff University Duathlon Series (MUDS) 2012. MUDS is a popular event among athletes, it is an event included 2 disciplines of sports, there are running and cycling. We will do 3km run – 12km cycle – 3km run continuously. And for MUDS 2012, 1^st leg on 12 May 2012 at UM, 2^nd leg on 19 May 2012 at UPM and 3^rd leg on 26 May 2012 at UPNM, you may come and have a try. If want to know further information, and look on this site >>> MUDS 2012. I have been chosen to become organizer @ manager for MUDS with another 2 friends, Tarmizi and Bukhari. We are 3 people together manage everything about this event. Actually got difficulty for 3 of us to discuss everything about this event, there is because 3 of us are from 3 different faculties, Tarmizi is from Faculty Engineering, Bukhari is from Faculty Management and I’m from Faculty Science & Technology. We got no time to meet up, except sacrifice night study time to do discussion. So, we usually discuss at night. This is the hottest event for Kelab Sukan Lasak UPNM, because it involved all members in our club. Some more this is a 3 series game, so we started training every morning and evening one month before the hottest event, then go for event 3 Saturday continuously. If total up, can concluded as we think all about MUDS for almost 2 months. But, when you follow every training session and achieve the result that you wish, then you will feel very enjoy and satisfy. Commonly, our training time is 0630H – 0730H and 0530H – 0700H, twice a day.

~ Training session, warming up ~

Right after Brooks Half Marathon that I organized before this, this is my 2^nd time manage an event for Kelab Sukan Lasak UPNM. As a club member, we are trained to become a good athlete and also a good manager. As a manager, we need to take care everything about participants, do registration for participants, settle transport, planning schedule and some document letters. While for an athlete, they just need to put their full commitment to training. But if you are a manager and an athlete, you shall do both from above. J AS I said, this event is 3 series, besides than UM and UPM, don’t be forget, UPNM also one of the host for MUDS. And for this year, UPNM will be the host for 3^rd leg MUDS 2012. 3^rd leg of MUDS shall be a very grand and best leg of MUDS, because is the last leg of MUDS, will be the conclusion in this event, many big prizes will be giving out in last leg of MUDS, such as BEST UNIVERSITY AWARD, TOP UNIVERSITY AWARD, DUATHLETE OF THE YEAR (men/women) and other prizes.

~ Previous year of us ~

So, we need to put more effort to plan a-z for MUDS 2012 in UPNM, make it more perfect and grand. We 3 try to manage everything more neatly, cannot be a little bit wrong also. Every single slot also cannot miss out, included setup of every places, route, activities, schedule, gimmick, do paper work and other things, try to do the best for this game. At 1^st, I used to holding a file that full with papers to HEPA, pieces of paper that full with list of things that need to settle, discuss with Pusat Sukan. Everyday going to HEPA, I think the staff at the information counter also lazy to see me already, must be think that I’m very “mafan” one. Haha. Follows by the procedures, we settle it up one by one, at last, I can just bringing a small piece of paper to update with Pusat Sukan UPNM to do last comfirmation. But for the worst part, I think is the name list part, we keep on changing the name list, to get the best for everyone in every category. Everyday, don’t know how many times I edited the name list, just can say minimum 3 times, sometimes edited until midnight., just the name list. Haha, but ok lah, I’m enjoyed doing this job, just my responsibility to provide the best for club members.

~ MUDS 2012 Timeline ~

For our club, we sending 52 people for Men University Category, 3 people for Women University Category, 4 teams Men Relay and 5 teams Mixed Relay, total is 82 people, the largest contingent for MUDS 2012, gonna bom the MUDS with UPNM students, make it more attractive. I usually update some information about MUDS in Page Kelab Sukan Lasak UPNM, to inspirit their mood to chase for winning. For last year, UPNM hold 4 main big trophies, and this year, I wish we can do it so. Good Luck to all.

~ Some food to everyone ~

Finally, 1^st leg of MUDS 2012 gonna start soon. The race is on 12 May, due to our club’s style, we used to do a short briefing before event, do a montage to inspirit everyone. Before race, on Thursday night, we hold a briefing at café, I given the job to brief everybody, was the 1^st time gave briefing to all club members, involved of seniors and also juniors. Well, I gave them briefing but don’t know they understand what I said or not, haha. At the same time, also got prepared burgers to everybody, some French fries, jellies, fruits and drinks. After briefing, got a montage session from me, I did a video about pre-race for them. Hope they like the video. Just don’t waste my effort on this video la, haha, actually, I finished this video within one day and I didn’t sleep for one night for doing this video. Then, went to class then gave briefing, for that time, I brake my own record, didn’t sleep more than ~~24 hours~~ 40 hours. Luckily, Shobana helped me in doing the video. Thank You, really appreciate it. Briefing ended around 12am.

~ In clinic, I get one Power Bar bottle and here is the goodies I get. This year they sponsored a lot of this, nice shirt written with “I BOLEH DU”, the meaning contained inside might be say that “I CAN DO” ， meaningful ~

On Friday, as I’m one of the managers for MUDS UPNM, so we went to take bib no. for all participants. Right after class on Friday, 10 people followed me along for Goodies Collection. At the same time, there got a Clinic Session and Race Briefing Session. For Clinic Session at UM, talked about “Nutrition Plan”, and the speaker is Sir Chan Jun Shen from UPNM. He is a 3 x Ironman Finisher, 2 x Duathlete of the Year and he is good in Nutrition Planning. I know more about nutrition planning from his presentation. Alright, after the clinic and race briefing session, we back to UPNM. We gathered all the UPNM’s participants, to allocate bib no to them. After they received bib no, they proceed to setting their bike. They checked everything on their bike, to make sure the bike is in good condition. And after all, everybody prepared for their race on the next day.