meet the face of determination – rahman mansor
Just thought I’d write a bit about my fellow Original BootCamp Malaysia recruit, RJ Rahman Mansor.
Though RJ is a fellow Petaling Jaya recruit, we’d never properly met because he is in PJ Alpha, the 5.45am session. Well at times the number of recruits are just too many that you don’t know everyone in your own platoon, let alone those in other platoons.
Our paths first crossed at the OBC Platoon VS Platoon @ Kepong Metropolitan Park a couple of months ago. I was impressed with RJ’s team spirit, attitude and his gungho-ness. You know how some people are just so inspiring that you cannot help but to follow their lead and share their enthusiasm? Well I felt that RJ is one of those people and I was most happy to make his acquaintance.
So RJ signed up for the Putrajaya Night Marathon that went on in early February 2010. RJ being RJ put down his name for the full 42km marathon. It was his first one and I’m positive there will be more to come.
I would like to share with you the first-hand account of RJ’s experience. The day after he completed the marathon, he wrote a long-arse touching post on his Facebook on what he went through, how he felt etc. It is now published on Hooha.Asia, titled: Rahman Mansor: His dreams, drama and achievement. A Putrajaya Night Marathon story. Here’s a short pick of his account:
By the next 2 km with 5km to go, these marshals where becoming noisy…they blared their horns and screamed encouragement to me…”Come on! You can do it!…We will wait for you!!!’ … now that just tugs my heart…my dream to ever completing a marathon is about to become reality, I have people behind me willing to wait past their time to see it happen…by this time it was 3:10am…way past the 2am mark…one marshal got off his car and in his slippers ran with me…pushing me!…cramps in between made me stop and go and stop again and go again!…they were there…ALL of them…they all wanted to see this victory!…its not a victory to be the first!…this is a victory to finish…i think this is just amazing…every corner and at every 100 meter mark, they blared their horns again and passed water to keep me hydrated…3:30am and I only have less than 1km to go…more marshals got off their cars and ran with me!…the boulevard was an air of carnival even with just a few people left and this lone old man who won’t give in.
Hooha.Asia also uploaded a short video covering RJ’s last few kilometres.
Well RJ, you’re an inspiration. Thank you for sharing this, as well as your kind words throughout our (so far) short acquaintance. When I grow up, I want to be just like you! 
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