Sunday, 23 April 2017

Jogathon Warisan (Kwong Tung Cemetery Run 2017)



  • 23 April 2017
  • Kwong Tung Cemetery   
  • Flagged off at 5.30am for 21km, 6.50am for 5km and 7a.m for 10km runners.
  • My category – 10 km open
  • Price – RM35 per runner for early bird and RM95 for normal rate
  • Race Pack – Blue t-shirt and registration bib
  • Goodies – Medal and buns
We arrived at the car park around 6.30am as it was so jammed heading to the Kwong Tung cemetery parking. Also, the roads were already closed as the 21km runners already flagged off at 5.30am. Luckily, we were asked to park at the funeral parlour.


Funeral parlour open for parking

The organiser conducted everything in Mandarin so there was no way for us to know what was going on. I had to ask someone to tell me what to do, i.e. where is the check-in and is it time for the 10km runners to be on standby. We were flagged off at 7am.  

So, we ran towards the road and then head towards the Kwong Tung cemetery. I didn’t know that the cemetery was so big and is still expanding. It was not an easy run as it had a lot of uphill and when it comes to downhills, there was no way to run down quickly as the paths were uneven. Also, we are running with lots of inexperienced secondary school runners, who tended to walk, talk and form a horizontal line, which made it difficult to overtake them.

There were 3 water stations for 10 km runners, serving mineral water and 100+ isotonic drinks. No portable toilets were prepared along our cemetery run.    

Upon arrival at the finishing line, we were given our medals and we took our buns. We helped ourselves to more 100+ isotonic drinks. There was also Milo, Indocafe coffee and Nestle breakfast cereal but the cereal had already finished when I arrived.       

Check out the pictures below:-



At the starting line

Are they suppose to be ghosts?

Check out the old graves

The mission to find Yap Ah Loy's tomb



Graveyards facing the skyline buildings in KL

This should be the Hokkien funeral parlour

How do you get down there to clean the graves and pray?

The most prestigious British primary school in KL

All finished when we arrived







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