About Levin Sim

I am Levin Sim, a Malaysian who is into running and hiking.

The intention of creating this blog is simple: To share my experiences and thoughts on hiking and races, for example, ultra marathons.

I have been reading blogs and posts from different trail runners, their race reports have helped me to understand and complete my ultra races. So now I would like play my part and share with others as well. Hopefully that one fine day my sharing will be beneficial to the others too.

Enjoy running, peeps!

Levin Sim

 
Me on the summit of Mt. Kedarkantha, India



Popular Posts

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
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Gopeng Ultra Trail 2019 (100km)

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Gopeng Ultra Trail ("GUT") 2019 was my first 100km ultra trail marathon. I chose to join this race because of it's moderate elevation and long cut off time (28 hours). The purpose of this run was to gauge the readiness of myself to join Asia Trail Master's races. GUT was held in Gopeng, Malaysia, on 23rd March 2019. Race Information: Organizer's Distance & elevation gain: 100km, with 3,175m elevation gain My recorded Distance & elevation gain: 91km, with 2,380m elevation gain (note: the route was cut short by 10km due to land slides) Cut off Time: 28 hours (my completed time was 22 hours, with walking only) Weather: Crazily hot, temperature went up to 41 deg.C during noon. Finishing rate: 75% My race report (extracted from my Facebook): Gopeng Ultra Trail's 100km category runners flagged off at 4:30am. Handicapped by my problematic right knee, my strategy was to complete the 100km with only fast walking. Theoretically it
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Tin Mines Endurance Challenge 2022

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Tin Mines Endurance Challenge ("TMEC") 2022 was an endurance game whereby the participants will run in a hamster loop of 3.6km for 24 hours and try to accumulate as much loop as possible. The race venue is in Sungai Lembing, a small town located 45 minutes away from Kuantan, at the east coast of Peninsula Malaysia. Race Information: Distance & elevation gain: 3.6km (with 60m elevation gain) per loop Cut off Time: 24 hours (there were 6h, 12h and 24h categories available) Weather: Weather was warm for 1-2 hours after flagged off, then it became chill and drizzling, and ultimately became heavy rain due to monsoon. This was my first official endurance race, unfortunately I was lack of training one-two months before the race due to sickness. I started the race with run-walk-run strategy and planned to go slow and maintain at the average pace required to achieve 140km over 24 hours. Nevertheless my average pace started to drop after 5 hours. Apparently my body was not
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