Sunday October 5th 2025 I ran the Standard Chartered Kuala Lumpur Marathon in Malaysia. Find below my full race coverage from this marathon and some tourist impressions from KL.
Kuala Lumpur
I stayed in KL Chinatown on the Four Points Hotel and had a total of 2.5 days in KL. Tourist visits included seeing the famous Petronas Twin Towers, the Batu Caves and a few other sites, but my perhaps best memory was the Saturday evening on the hotel terrasse enjoying the magnificent views towards the Petronas Twin Towers and the gigantic Merdeka 118, the second-highest building in the world. People were friendly everywhere and it was safe to walk around, take the metro, Uber and such. Given much more time, a proper visit to Malaysia should include places like Borneo and other sites with nature and perhaps more original folklore.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Standard Chartered Kuala Lumpur Marathon 2025
The event carried a 5K, 10Km half marathon and a full marathon, the latter starting 03.30 AM Sunday morning. The route was quite tough and the first warm and very humid, then extrely warm weather did not help. The marathon had several strict cut-off, including at 34K and at the finish line. Personally, I believe everyone making it to the finish line should be allowed to actually finish and get an official time, this is my recommendation to the event going forward. Overall, nice professional organisation and not much to complain about.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
See or relive the Kuala Lumpur Marathon 2025 from below (and in Malaysian, Balanese, Indonesian, Javanese, Thai, Hindi)
