Loading ...Borneo International Marathon 2008 – Air Asia Press Conference
11 October, 2008 – Conference started at 1.00pm at the lobby of Tune Hotel in 1Borneo Hypermall. The floor was quite packed with the media from both bloggers and the press. 8 AirAsia staff were present for the press conference and photo shoot session which includes the various medias.
Most of the AirAsia staff that is joining the Borneo International Marathon are mostly from Kuala Lumpur while 7 staffs comes from Kota Kinabalu. From the Q&A session, we also learned that 13 of them (AirAsia) will be running for the half marathon circuit while 6 will be entering the quarter marathon circuit. Only one staff will be running the full circuit(21km) which is the captain of the team, Captain Razali.
Most of the team members joining have had experience in long distance runs like Kate, which have joined the the 10K Power Run held in Kuala Lumpur.
Kate
The only stewardess from AirAsia that is joining the marathon is Lily. According to the officials from AirAsia, she is promised by AirAsia CEO Datuk Tony Fernandez, MYR 1000 for each 1KM she completes. When asked how far she thinks she could run for concerning the offer, she said “of course 21KM!”.
Lily
Tonight the Pasta Party will be held at 6:30pm in the Stadium Likas Multipurpose Hall and those who will be attending are the officials, the organizing committee, international runners, local press and bloggers.
papajoneh
Is this Lily that been appearing in their many posters and ads and banner and everywhere???
Coool. I missed the end story of this marathon but if I not mistaken she did manage to run lot of KM and thus lotsa donation from CEO.. am I right??
Cool for a stewardess to be sporting enough to just run for the good cause. Well done Lily.
Shan
Hi papajoneh,
Yes that’s Lily. And thanks to her efforts and her boss’s generosity we were able to raise RM33,000 for the 8 charities supported by BIM. It’s a small start, but hopefully a good one :)
Shan
Sorry I should specify that Lily raised RM21,000 and the remaining RM12,000 was thanks to contributions from other runners personal donations and entry fee contributions.