NM Galaxy Road Run 2014 2nd Series : My Race

This event will be my longest distance to date. My last running event was an 8km event in UPM. I did not train or register any event earlier this year to focus on cycling and MTB. The thought of running on an event that will be using 2XU Compression Run route is pretty daunting. I have zero minutes of training 2 weeks prior to this event due to some minor injury to my right foot( and still nursing it today). The plan was to just wing it and run as comfortable as my right foot could be till the end.

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Since this is my 1st long distance event for 2014, I have to prepare everything right. I woke up at 4am that morning. My running gear already been prepared the night before.Left the house at 5am and managed to park quite near to the starting line at 5.20am. I hang out in front of the prayers tent to wait for Subuh Prayer. There are yet many participant at the race venue.
Around 6.10 meet up with the boys Ameer, Azfar, Burn and Hezlan and walks towards the starting line. Somewhere around 6.20 the gun went off without any countdown by the MC or any notification. Many of the runners have yet to prepare but we running. 

I started really slow as I can feel some pain every time I lift my right foot. Since I could not land and lift properly on my right and have to shorten my stride, my left foot have to carry much of my weight and after the u turn I could feel some pain on my left knee.
By 2nd water station, I was already on jogging mode, dropping in pace as I was so tired. I did manage to run most of the hills on this route. I did stop running and only power walking during 1km hike the KL Mayor's house.

The route 90% the same as 2XU Compression run which the route will take us from Padang Merbok towards Lembaga Pertubuhan Peladang in Jalan Sultan Salahuddin before U-turn toward Bank Negara. From there we will make our way towards Jalan Langgak Tunku and Jalan Pesiaran Duta. Then the route will take us to the famous hill at Changkat Tungku. The difference of this event's route and 2XU Compression Run was the end, NM Galaxy Run route will finish from Mahameru and Tugu Negara instead of the usual Jalan Sultan Salehuddin.

The view on some part of the route was quite superb especially in front of the KL Mayor's house.

The best part of this race is all water station, 5 station to be exact served Gatorade and mineral water. I made my pit stop at all water station to have a cup of Gatorade. Its refreshing.

view on top of Changkat Tunku

Worst part of this event, my sports-tracker did not record 5km of this race hence my average speed dropped significantly. I also could not check the elevation of 1km uphill towards the KL Mayor's House.
My timing was 1 hour 49 seconds 4 minutes more that the timing I did during 2XU Compression Run in November last year. Not as bad as I thought at the first place since this is my 1st more than 10k event for me this year.