Date: 28th September 2019
Venue: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai
Organizer: School Of Chemical and Energy Engineering
Graduate Attributes
- Adaptability
Role
My role in this event is as a participant.
Report
The reason why I just this event is to get more exercise into my life because I was staying indoors most of the time. This kind of activity does help a lot in bringing me outside to exercise. The graduate attribute is adaptability is because this kind of thing is not done often by me and my body needs to adapt to be able to finish the run under the time limit. The event's main activity is the run itself, but before and after the run, there were various things the organizer have planned. Before the start of the run, we had warm-up and a small speech by the organizer. During the run, I enjoyed my time jogging with my friends throughout the race. After the run, we had a small prize giveaway and that concludes the whole event. They had a few stalls and food trucks for the participants and other people to enjoy.
Self-Reflection
Back before I start university, I never really joined any sport activities in my previous school. So my athletics abilities were not great at all. But when my friends asked me to join the run, I was excited to do it with them. On the day of the run, I was not in my best shape to do exercise, But I pushed through it and had to adapt to a new environment that I had not done in a long time. I had to re-adapt to doing jogging.
But I did a lot of time on the treadmill and bikes to help me through it all. The time spent doing those were helpful and somewhat an advantage to me on doing this run. There were two challenges I faced in the run. Number one was my fitness during the time of the run. I was not in the best shape for it but I manage to complete the run from my past fitness and workout regime. The second challenge is the course itself. Unlike the courses or road in my hometown, there were many hills and high elevations. This cause me to exert more energy and tiring myself out jogging up the hill. The way I overcome this is from my friend's support. They gave me motivations to over the hill and to the top.