Malaysian Fitbloggers

I shared with you some blogs by Malaysian foodbloggers the other week so, to counteract all that calorific content, I thought I’d check out some blogs about running by Malaysians. It’s a more surprising topic and I wasn’t expecting to find many but to my delight, there are quite a number of running enthusiasts who trot out quite happily in the sticky equatorial heat.

I haven’t run around in Malaysia since I was a kid, preferring the cool of a swimming pool whenever I go back for a visit - I’ve got so acclimatised to the UK cold that I find it quite a challenge exerting myself to much under a hot sky and even the heat of an English summer can be a little too much for me! - so I’m really impressed by these Malaysian fitbloggers who race marathons and even ultras (ie more than 26.2 miles) out in the midday sun!

Running With Passion is a Kuala Lumpur based runner who seems to run “in most road races all over my beautiful country, MALAYSIA and also in oversea places that I have visited”. He has some great photos and videos on his blog as well as lively write-ups of the events. He also blogs about music, the blogging scene and a wide range of other activities and festivities in Malaysia.

Living, And Loving Life is the public diary of Haza, “A working mother of two who would like to believe she can shuffle on a relentless forward motion and explore her boundaries.” That’s a very modest description as she’s an ultrarunner! She’s also a great photographer (many Malaysian bloggers seem to be!) and there are some lovely portraits on her blog, too.

KL Runner focuses more on race stats in his write ups but it’s the photos of race events that really bring his blog to life - it’s great to see the Malaysian scenery that the runners are slogging through as well as all of them going hard at it in many action shots.