Happy Malling15 days to go before the big race! Beyond, I actually found another very amusing way of doing some workout to prepare for the run – SHOPPING!! The malls in Malaysia are so incredibly huge, that it’s really a sporty challenge or maybe even a real sport to do shopping in there! Running around, putting all these clothes on and off, carrying all these bags, balancing them while wiggling through narrow rows or having a closer look to a new issue.
I call my newfound activity, “Malling". To me it’s the perfect way to express doing excessive shopping in a mall. It seems to be something like a hobby to a lot of Malaysians, right? I only managed to see One Utama, The Curve, Time Square, Mid Valley, Tropicana City and Amcorp Mall yet. The last two ones are rather small and could be compared to our shopping centers in Germany. I wonder which of the other malls is the biggest over here… But I can tell you, that I haven’t been through them all yet. They are just too big, this might be even more than a whole-day-event and after this I might feel more exhausted than intensive training on tracks!
After four hours my feet already hurt so much, I guess I had a lot of blisters there, covering nearly my whole feet… May I suggest a shuttle service within the mall, like a golf buggy… But it seems as if locals are really used to this. It might also explain why most of the people over here are so well in shape :-)
Oh, and besides, I even found a some new sport shirts… Most of them are from Reebok and for me it was amazing to discover, that they apparently have different design compared to the German market (please feel free to proof me wrong as this is just an assumption!) and seems to be (maybe because of that) very famous over here. I got a black one, a rose one and a mint one and they 
have all in common this soft nice-haptic material I like so much.
During the last registration for the Siemens Run in CP Tower I had the chance to see the running vest I am gonna receive for the run- the material is different, but also very nice, seems to be able to soak a lot o
f sweat and keep the skin comfortably dry! The cutting is classical and simply, very nice, just white colour but with the print of the Reebok and the Siemens logo on the front side and a small-seized “What are you running for?” logo at the back side. As it’s the same brand as the shirts I bought I am really looking forward to collect it!
Last weekend I traveled to the east coast of Malaysia, to Cherating beach, because I was so keen on seeing some turtles. Next door to the Club Med there is a turtle station/turtle sanctuary located I visited. They provide a lot of information there, they keep some big turtles, a kind of “breeding garden”, which means they collect the eggs from the beach and burry them again at a certain part of their area so that they are protected. And of course they do have baby turtles- Gosh, they are so cute!!!! 
and they know exactly where to run to! You let them down on the sand and you will see them creeping, nearly running over the beach towards the sea. Their arms and feet seem to be quite strong also they are so tiny… Then the next wave will take them away… Aren’t they brave, running into the big big ocean, facing all the danger…? 
