TRISTUPE.COM: About

Hello and welcome to tristupe.com ! I have been blogging since May 2004 and it actually serves as an outlet for me to chronicle events in my life. I was publishing on opstupe.blogspot.com and re-launched the blog to tristupe.com in October 2011.

I grew up in Klang Valley and very much a KL-boy. I am trained as an Engineer (Electrical & Electronics) and currently functions as a Project Manager managing renewable energy ventures. I have extensive working experiences which you can view in my LinkedIn profile.

Growing up, I was never a sports person. My foray into physical activities was solely based on strength sports such as javelin, discus and shot-put. I could not sprint and could not run distance. I grew up wanting to own a bicycle - and finally got one when I was 12 years old through years of saving those "angpow" money. I have never run distance until I was accepted into Royal Military College, Malaysia. That too, I could not break the 8minutes mark for a 1-mile run. My foray into endurance sports date back to about 10 years ago - when I decided that bodybuilding was not for me. I got to a massive 95kg (which really, it was fat) and no way could I compete without any aid. It was a tough decision (then) that has proven to be a good one (now).

I have lost counts of the races I entered over the years. To date (December 2012), I've taken part and completed (unless stated otherwise):

1. No less than 10 adventure races (multi-discipline);

2. Numerous 10km runs, lost count of my 21km runs;

3. 13 marathons (that's 42km if you are curious);

4. One Kapas-Marang swimathon (6,5km Island to mainland);

5. Numerous duathlons (minimum 5km-20km-5km Run-Bike-Run);

6. Lost count of Olympic distance triathlons(minimum 1.5km-40km-10km

Swim-Bike-Run);

7. Eight Long distance triathlons (Desaru Triathlon, minimum 2km-90km-

21km Swim-Bike-Run);

8. Five Powerman duathlon (minimum 10km-60km-10km Run-Bike-Run)

of which I finished only three officially;

9. Three Ironman Triathlon (3.8km-180km-42km Swim-Bike-Run)

10. One Sabah Adventure Challenge (minimum 150km multi-discipline).

Complete but not official finisher;

11. Three Kinabalu Climbathons (21km. Run starts from Timpohon up to

Peak and back to Park HQ) – of which I’ve finished none with 3:30 cut

off;

12. One Hash Challenge that made the hashers run/walk/crawl from Sungai

Pusu to Batu 18 Hulu Langat traversing the Titiwangsa range. Did not

complete and will do it again in 2013; and

13. Organised the first Xterra Triathlon in 2009 (Kuantan) that was the first
in South East Asia; and
14. Many more to come...

I have appeared in a Television program (TV3 Explorace 2007) and numerous publications such as FHM, The Edge, The Star, Cleo, Sin Chew Jit Poh and Oriental Daily. I conducted a Running 101 workshop once and was involved in helping/sharing my knowledge with the sports club from Zaid Ibrahim and Co.

As an amateur triathlete, I was sponsored by Tune Money in 2009 and is currently a 2ndSkin Athlete for 2013. As part of the 2ndSkin collaboration, Skechers Malaysia is sponsoring me their footwear. I am also part of the Brooks Elite Frunners, of which I will get to review shoes as it comes in.

In July 2011, I took a big step and changed my eating habits and lifestyle. I am a self-confessed foodie (yes, you can still ask me where to get the best food) and I turn around 180 degree and started a rewarding journey of clean eating and living. It was superb for stress (and depression) management. In about 10 months, it started to show results and I went from (waist) 36 inches to a svelte 30 inches. I dropped from 85kg to 67kg, bringing my body fat count from 25% to a cool 9%. I have since wrote a lot about food, health and training routines – which are what brought you, my readers here. I thank you all for the support.

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