Bidor Half Marathon 2008

Monday Blue especially after 2D1N trip to Bidor, Perak (M'sia - in case you are not Malaysian).

As usual, my mum will say crazy because travel so far only for 10KM run. I also lazy to explain the reason behind it. Anyway, no matter what I say she still won't understand us at all. Definitely, run is one of our reason but won't be the only reason. We travel for food, gathering with a few friend with same reason (run) & short holiday.

Total 14 of us separated to 3 cars - Naza-Ria, Kia Picanto & Perodua Kenari. Journey started at 10am and we managed to reach Bidor at 12++. Without wasting time, we proceed to get our Bib no. Yeah my number is H063.

Is time to look for our food for lunch. As plan we eat duck mee which is the famous food in Bidor. If you get a chance to visit Bidor, you should look for this Duck mee. Basically is wanton mee with very strong taste of herb soup. Personally, I have tried this a few year ago (10 years gua). I hate it very much. The herb taste is incredible strong. Ended up my mum have to finish it on my behalf.

This will be my second time trying this Duck Mee. I have no idea why I like it very much especially the soup. May be I have growing older so can accept all those old folk food. Back to the duck mee. Herbal taste strong enough & duck meat is so soft. You can just easily peel off the meat using chopstick. Satisfied with my lunch.

Time to shop. Sorry no handbag, no new arrival shoe or shirt, no accesories and no shopping mall you can find from this small town. So what we shop? Bidor famous with 'Little Chicken Biscuit'. To join the gang, I bought some as souvenier.

After that, we proceed to Kampar to check in, another small little town - around 30KM from Bidor. I was wondering is there any nice hotel in Kampar as it only a small town. It's proved that I'm wrong. Don't ever look down on this small little town. There is one Grand Kampar Hotel. 4 person in a room cost RM160 (Corporate rate) per night. The fact is that this room can fit more than 7 people. You may have a few friends gather in a room for some for beer, chatting & relaxing.

As the day is still young, We plan walk around the town. As we don't have any idea on this town, the best is to ask the hotel reception. The expression that he gave is super blur and replied with 'ah'. I can roughly know what he think.

'This few fellow must be crazy. Kampar got nothing for you to visit wan la'

Ended up, we just simply walk around the town and return to hotel for a rest. Basically wait for dinner to come.

This is our nice & spicy Chicken Curry Bread. Famous food from Kampar. Does this look yummy. I think to most Malaysian, they will like this.Curry Chicken is cover by bread. You should dip the bread to the curry.

Sunday Morning - 27 April 2008

As usual I have to force myself to wake up at 5am. Although reporting time is 6.15am but we still need to travel to Bidor which take around 30 minutes. The run blast out at 7.05am and manage to finish the run within 1 hr 20 minutes.

Mission accomplish. Waithing for those 21KM runners

Mission accomplish for 15 of us. Let's take a group photo.....

Finisher medal....heavy ler...