TM Fan Run 2012

As usual, its like a ritual yearly in June or July, Haze will come visiting Malaysia. This year, it came visited Klang Valley on 15 July 2012. There were talks as to whether this weekend's TM Fan Run (TMFR) and next weekend's SCKLM will be called off because of its visit.

The weekend came and go, looks like when we afraid of haze, rain came over to took control at the 3-4 km mark into the run. A few of us tried to show off their new sunnies and I am sure you know who you are. Probably you guys brought the rain.

LYNR decided to meet up at the fountain located at the end of the Dataran Mederka field.

TM FAN Run waiting place

As usual there will be early birds. The "Bersih" group is hidden at one corner of the field camwhoring.

Few of the early birds

This round, we have a "new friend" decided to join us for the 1st time. He is quite shy initially and we decided to ask K1 (our own coach) to pace him.

Our new friend, Angry Bird

K1 will be pacing our new friend

The run started with the singing of National Anthem, Negaraku and subsequently the 7km run started on the dot at 8.00am with about 5,000 registered runners.

Runners waiting at the starting point

Things started well until our Coach went out of control. He even tried to control the traffic but not sure did he annoy the Tuan Traffic Police with his *peep peep* whistle he carried along.

Looks like you can see a sea of lemon yellow/green/'bersih" runners tried to gate clash the Orange Runners. Remember one of us was told off by an auntie for not wearing the event Tee and sounds like we are not patriotic... hehehe!

Half way through the run, somewhere the 3-4km mark, rain took over from haze. Suddenly it started to rain heavily. Some runners were taking shelter at bus stop but most continued with their run. Am not sure how many sets of mobile phones were destroyed during this downpour? Our avid photographer runner, Soon Chung was trying his best to protect his baby with a piece big leave. Hope everything will be fine after storing it in a 5kg of rice overnight or the next few nights. 

Towards the last turning, which is at the beginning of Jalan Parlimen, though its still drizzling, the faster LYNRs waited for the rest in order to have a group finishing. As usual, we will never miss opportunity to snap where ever we are. 

Whatever it takes to photothon, even under the rain