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TNF - Malaysia Mountain Trail Festival 2019 (84km)

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TNF - Malaysia Mountain Trail Festival 2019 ("TNF-MMTF") is an ultra trail marathon event held in Taiping, Malaysia. It consisted of 10km, 25km, 55km and 84km races. The elevation gained for 84km race was advertised as 5,300m, which made it a little bit scary to me. Race Information: Organizer's Distance & elevation gain: 86.5m, with 5,290m elevation gain My recorded Distance & elevation gain:   80.42km+, with 4,720m elevation gain Cut off Time: 28 hours (I took 20hours 17minutes to complete) Weather: Chill, 10-20 deg.C Finisher rate: 72% Unlike all my previous ultra events which I normally started off by fast walking, I flagged off in TNF-MMTF 2019 with light jog. I have heard many stories where runners DNF in CP1 in year 2018 due to human traffic jam in single trails, so I definitely don't want that to happen on me. However, seemed like the organizer was aware of the year 2018 problem and rectified it on 2019 by prolonging the runnable sect