Comrades marathon report by ChingTai

ChingTai's BDP company colleague wish him and CCHOO a good run in Comrades during their departure at KLIA.

11hrs 32mins

Comrades Ultra Marathon, 2006
Run Date: 16th-Jun-2006
Time Limit: 12 hours
Number of Runner Participate the Run:12,000++
Route: Durban to Pietermaritzburg (up hill run)

Dear all,

First of all may I take this opportunity to thanks all of you to give the great support to make Comrades Marathon to become realistic for BDP Asia Pacific.

It's a tough run but wonderful, you will experience to run with 12,000 runners from worldwide, people around you are so cheerful and polite by calling your name, give you an ultimate spirit support and send you a very warn regard...... etc.

My finishing time is 11hrs 32min which is out of my expectation below 11hrs.

Here is some of my personal valuable experience want to share with everyone who are interested to participate for comrades run in the near future.


1) TRAIN, TRAIN, TRAIN............ NO TRAINING NO RUNNING, TRAIN AS MUCH AS YOU CAN. You must train yourself to make your physically fix enough to support you for the challenge. Training in the PROPER way is very important, remember, Comrades run is always up and down on the hilly area, please never ever only train/run on the flat road.

2) MIND SET READINESS, your mind set will lead your physically performance. Be remember, you must always set your mind to have strong determination for achievement no doubt sometime your mind set will lead your to the negative thinking.

3) PATIENCE, be readied to face your physical paint and never ever give up.

4) NEW ENVIRONMENT, Comrades may be the very new running environment for the 1st time runner, runner must be able to accept/cope/face the totally new running environment.

Regret to inform you my brother do complete the run but over the time limit (over 12 mins), he is no entitle to get any prize from Comrades.

Will share my Comrades experience to every BDP staff in our newsletter.

Thanks!

Best regards,
Ching Tai