Our inaugural runcation finally took place over the weekend of 21 to 23 June 2019. This wasn’t a race that we were going to, but a weekend getaway to run, chill, eat and take lots of photos.

A group of 14 of us from ROCKrunners headed up to Pangkor Laut Resort, which is located on a private island accessible only by boat. We flew into Ipoh, then took a van for nearly 2 hours to get to Marina Pangkor where we took a 15-minute speedboat to the island.

There were two kinds of running that could be done there – a road run around the resort (which is hilly) and a trail run (3km loop). We didn’t manage to hit the trails because of early morning thunderstorms, but we managed to get a run in, a HIIT session and a yoga session. Some of them also hit the gym for some extra sweat.

Of course, since this is also a vacation, we had a massage at the spa and we ate buffets for all three meals. There was a lot of downtime where we relaxed at the beach or at the pool.

This was a weekend recharge we needed and we had so much fun. We laughed, ate and took so many photos lol! We should be planning more runcations after this, perhaps you could join us next time!!