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My Name is Sim Boon Haw @ petalingrunner. I am 28yrs of age and currently working as Sales Officer in a manufacturing company. I have started my running since secondary school but was never serious about it even into my college years. I ran a lot and my first ever race was the PJ Half Marathon 1996. I did a 10k and finished position 78 but I never timed it. As I was in overseas year 1997, I did not participate in any race. When I was back in year 1998, I joined the PJ Half 1998, 1999 and 2000 where I took part in the 10K.

I actually stopped running for 2 years from year 2001 onwards due to personal reasons. However, in year 2003, my health got bad and my weight just sky-rocketed. In one night August 2003, I picked up my shoe and ran my first 3K at 9.30pm. I was so out of breath that night I had to walk the remaining 1.5k back home. I continued to run from that day on everynight, everyday without fail.

After 6 to 7 months of training, I was prepared to race and my first one was Penchala Tunnel Fun Run 2004. I just did not time myself but I felt good racing. It was that day that I learned my collegemate Jason he participated in the same run as well. At the same time, I discovered these group of running community named der_pacemaker with ronnie @ pm1 and others as 'members'. There I had learned of the Pacesetters Club as well. I started to train for longer distances and my first 21K was the Seremban half 2004.

Right now, I cannot foresee that i'll stop running no matter how busy. It will only go on until the day I can't run anymore. I am glad to join the PM family and many thanks to pm1 and all whom had linked me to their site. I'll end this with a quote:

"I have met my hero, and he is me." - George Sheehan

Many Thanks.

p.s.: Why the name petalingrunner? Because I was born in PJ laa...

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