Run for life: A runner being cheered on by schoolchildren during the BII Maybank Bali Marathon 2014.
Our intrepid journalist tackles a rustic running route graced with chickens, ducks and hearty cheering.
It was a dark and rather chilly morning on Sept 14 when I reached the starting point of the marathon at 4am (after a 2:30am wake up call) from my hotel in Nusa Dua, Bali, just before the local authorities started to close the roads. I was standing in a neon yellow sea of some 4,400 participants, the highest number recorded since the inception of the BII Maybank Bali Marathon in 2012.
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