StanChart KL Marathon 2009
Jun 28th, 2009 by Steven
Were you at the Standard Chartered Kl Marathon this morning? When I arrived at Dataran Merdeka at about 8am, many of the runners for the full marathon were back at the Start/Finish point. As the minutes went by, the place was packed with more and more people - it was reported that some 12,500 runners including foreigners signed up for the run.
Here’re some photos that I took … I’ve excluded photos of runners in action as there will be be many blogs posting such pix. For my assignment I’d decided to use only my 50mm prime lens instead of the zoom I normally use. On my Canon EOS 1.6x crop factor, the field of view of the 50mm is equivalent to 80mm.
Hope you enjoy the selection here.
A sea of runners and spectators … taken from an elevated platform
The view at street level
A friend in need is a friend indeed
This non-runner was engrossed reading about the King of Pop aka Michael Jackson (1958-2009)
There was free ‘flow’ of energy-giving bananas for runners at the end of the race
(right) This topless guy tells it all about the gruelling run … satisfaction is about finishing
She was very sporting - posing and smiling for this photo … thanks!
She was one of the tray-holders at the prize-giving ceremony … don’t you feel nice when a stranger gives you a smile???