First time on PUMA Night Run 2015 @ Setia City, Shah Alam

First time I had been in PUMA Night Run 2015

Yahoo!!! I excited when heard about Puma Night Run 2015 that we would join after my friend and I did not run for marathon for some time because we had been busy recently. However I would like to share my story about Puma Night Run. Before this, we faced with haze weather. Haze hit my country for one month. So we doubted if Puma Night Run still be going on or cancelled. As I knew that some marathon cancelled due to the bad haze weather. It was not very good for all runner's health would be affected. Even Puma Night Run had make an announcement to all runners to see if haze's status which leaded stable or worst mode.

However, we were lucky and unexpected that haze was away already so far from my country and therefore, Puma Night Run was still going on. For those runners had mix feeling which was over happy, excited and couldn't wait to join the marathon included us for sure. Finally we could breath with a great weather.

Finally, we curious how Puma Night Marathon look liked and a lot of activities would be held at Setia Alam, Shah Alam, Selangor on 31 October 2015. We went there so earlier due to avoid the traffic jam and no space for parking. Even we need to collect our race kit because PUMA marketing emailed us about the updates information about race kit collection which was held on the same day. We managed to get the place to park nearby Setia Alam City. Wow! We saw that some of the runners wore blue T-shirt who was walking around the activities at PUMA event.

Many blue runners in the PUMA Night Run 2015

So we headed to the place named Setia Alam Convention Centre that we need to collect our race kit but we were very surprised when saw many people queuing up to collect it. A long queue line. We had one hour left before the marathon flag off. While we queuing up, we chat chit at the same time. Time flied so quickly. It shown 7.30pm that it would flag off. It was almost our turn to collect it and hurry to change our clothes. By the way, we managed to take a beautiful photo on the PUMA event in late evening. Despite a very long queuing up and almost took 1 hour to wait in order to get the race kit collection however it did not stop us to have a strong spirit and excitement.

Some runners busy to be queue up at the T-shirt collection pack booth!

Wow!! Many runners gathering up and warm up session at the field and there was a variety of stage games and activities especially some interesting activities that the PUMA Run event equipped with a range of on-ground activities including the iconic PUMA logo, double-sided photo walls with the 8,000 runners’ names, and the 96 feet x 20 feet PUMA Challenge.

She tried to jump and maintain her body!

Curious what was the PUMA challenge that participant tried to take part? One of the participants was trying to jump on the wall. It reminded me that it was similar like American Ninja Warrior challenge. That participant must maintain the jump to move her body so that she did not fall down on the floor.

That participant maintained to balance his body slowly!

Yahoo!! That participant had successfully to conquering the RED Wall!

Other that, a participant was maintaining his balance in the PUMA Challenge till attracting many runners who like to see how that person did in PUMA Challenge. Want to become Malaysia Ninja Warrior? One of the Puma Night Run participants conquering the Red Wall, Making it to the top! Yahoo! Amazing when see it! Could see many people wore blue T shirt so far. So beautiful event which filled with blue theme. Even got some balloon and many more. More fun and enjoyable there. Make us wanted to try the challenge there but we still be patient and waiting to get our t shirt that time.

Beautiful of Hyrda Power display but I miss the lighting on this display! Late already

Yang Berhormat, Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar, Federal Minister of Youth and Sport, and founder of Fit Malaysia with awesome runners!

Red PUMA attracted us!

Wow! The Puma Night Run launched with the honor and pleasure to see Yang Berhormat, Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar, Federal Minister of Youth and Sport, and founder of Fit Malaysia at the PUMA Night Run who wore the grey clothes during counting down the time to flag off at Start Line.

Few VIPS come and take photo at the Start Line!

In addition, there was few VIPS who came along for the PUMA marathon. They were (Second from left): One of the PUMA Friends, Shahar Abdul Salam with (from left): Tim Tham, Assistant Marketing Manager for PUMA Sports Good Sdn Bhd, Gabriel Yap, Head of Marketing for PUMA Southeast Asia, Xu Bin, Singapore actor and MediaCorp artiste, and Mr Philippe Le-Bretton, General Manager of PUMA Southeast Asia in the photo above.

Flag off started! All runners excited to run with high spirit!

At the same time, the day turned into dark night and the marathon started off with light rain suddenly. We decided to not running due to the bad weather so we just took photo on some photo at the PUMA event before the raining was getting heavy and thunder together. However, there was many runners continued to run for the PUMA Marathon. We explored around PUMA event that we missed out immediately.

Free Airbrush Tattoo? Runners really love it?

You can spot my name on this board wall?

I found out that some of the activities which was airbrush tattoo that attracting many people curious and wanted to do it. So interesting. Especially the big board attracting us to see and make us curious. There was a list for all runners who joined this marathon. So my friend excited to look for her name on the board. Then she told me that she got her name. Included my name! So happy and snap our name on the board but this time the rain poured so heavily. Other than that, we grabbed our time to take photo on big word named PUMA as well. So we stopped to explore about the event. So we ran and went toward to Setia Alam City Mall. Wow! So many people were waiting at outside and we bet that there still got many runners could not make it this moment.

I graceful that we were fine at all and we just got wet so much. Even We managed to take some photo on the event before we started to find a place to dine in at Setia Alam City Mall. Everything was okay. We just shopping and had dinner there. I saw many runners did not want to join the marathon because of the weather status. So most of them just did as what we did in the shopping mall. So our guessing was correct. Wow! Many people like to shopping and had the meals for dinner time. So happy to see around the window shopping. We just cancel our plan to run to avoid any bad happened at us for our sake health.

Okay back to the story, we saw that many restaurant was full with many peoples and makes us more hungry and finally we dine in the restaurant that we never eat before. It was a bit expensive. We had no choice because we were over hungry already. Sounds funny! We shocked to see some runners were wet fully because they ran during the thunderstorm & heavy rain since the PUMA event cancelled. Finally they got PUMA medal and welfie together for fun. Despite we did not get any medal or goodie bag but we did not mind at all. I would like to say something. We came here for keeping good healthy and doing it as exercise. It was not our main purpose to get the medal. Of course, we still graceful to spend some time for fun despite we missed it out. Anyways, we had a great time.

Beautiful scenery! But we cannot run during the heavy raining

Till my friend received an SMS from PUMA marketing team who told us that the marathon cancelled due to the bad weather. We wondered how came some people still want ran despite it was not suitable time to run. One more thing make us suprised. It informed us that it would email us to get the medal who never collect it during the finished marathon. So we were looking forward to get it soon.

Yahoo! My name be there!

By the way, it was our first time to NOT running this time but we enjoyed so much when explored around PUMA event. At least my friend and I experienced about this event. Definitely, it was an interesting event and enjoyable. Oh yes, what a funny thing happened at us. After dinner time, we continue to explore a bit around PUMA event then walking to parking car. The rain still be poured so heavily. We shocked when saw the parking car place got flood and mud. Our shoes got mud already. We worried and wanted to find where was my good friend's car had been parked. Many cars filled with muds and flood. Oh yes, Please did not get what I mean wrongly. The Muds and flood was not inside car. Haha. So funny!

BYE to PUMA Night Run 2015! See you again on next 2016 ya!

We will join it if have a chance next year. I would like to share a nice quote with you guys. Do not give up no matter how difficult to face and it keeps to encourage you to be more confident and give you high motivation till finish line. In my heart, we miss this marathon but I am looking forward to join next marathon. Can't wait to join next marathon. Curious what is the next marathon? Stay tune and hope you enjoy to read my post.