Activity 2/2011 - Feb 12 - 2nd USM Open Relay 2011

The 2nd USM Open Relay 2011 held yesterday at the Penang USM Athletics Stadium was the first event in our local running calender for the year 2011. Like the previous year when it was inaugurated we entered 4 teams just for 'fun' as we are basically long distance road runners and this year, for the same spirit we participated as well.

Manager Andrew Loh n Captain Jin initiated the move and Cupido Kelvin Tharm was appointed as the Team Manager of this event. After a number of time trial selections at the USM Athletics stadium we decided to register 5 teams in the Open category viz:
Men
4x200m : 2 teams (Cheng Siew Czing, Cheng Siew Seng, Danny Poh Yee Chuan)
.................(Vincent Teoh Soon Lee, Calvin Lim Wen Quan, Koo Chia Lee, Phang Jit Hun)
4x800m : (Ooi Seow Fung, Wong Jin Ji, James Lee Yeow San, Tim Stelzer)
Medley (200m>200m>400m>800m) -
1 team (Lee Chun How, Eric Lim Tzu Yiang, James Lee Yeow San, Ooi Seow Fung)
Women
4x200m - (Chung Mei Ling, Denise Peh Bee Leng, Sarah Foong Yuen Jing, Lee Mei Lan)

The meet was held from the morning till at night with the 1st event shot-off at about 9:00am and the last event started after 10:30pm. We started with our first event in the Men 4x200m Semi Final at 9:30am, the Men 4x800m at 11:30am, the Women 4x200m at 6:00pm and the Men Medley at 9:30pm. It was a hot day till about 4:00pm when it started to get cloudy and even a light shower.

As expected we ran all our events in 'style' n all teams finished 'first from bottom', just to 'uphold' the record we set in the previous year ^_^. Nevertheless as usual all our runners ran in high fighting spirit n went all out till the passing of batons n finishing line amidst cheers n applause.
Though we did not win any medals, all of us, participants and supporters enjoyed ourselves and without doubt we will be back again 12 months from now....

Take this opportunity to thank all our participants, supporters, photographers, helpers and last but not least Andrew Loh, Captain Jin n Cupido Kelvin Tharm for making our participation an enjoyable one.

Thank you Athletics Club of USM for holding this meet and PAAA for your technical assistance.

Click here for a photo album courtesy of Mei Ling
Click here for a photo album courtesy of Wong Jin Ji
Click here for a photo album courtesy of Danny Poh
Click here for a photo album courtesy of Vincent Teoh
Click here for a photo album courtesy of Eric Lim