REPORT ON KLAVA MEMBERS PARTICIPANTS IN ROAD RELAY DURING 2004

 Overall, 2004 was another outstanding year for KLAVA members involvement  in road relay events – having won quite a number of first, 2^nd & 3^rd placing in some of the major road relay events in the country.  In fact, there were improvement over the previous years.

 Due to the lack of incoming funds, KLAVA subsidy for these team events have been drastically reduced this year. Nevertheless, the undersigned managed to find some sponsors in order for the members to participate.  Sometimes, we have no choice but to run under the sponsor’s banner, that being the terms of their sponsorship.

 This year, KLAVA members participated in all 6 of the known road relay events throughout Malaysia.  Please refer to the attachments for summary of results.

 Also, there was a slight improvement in the response from KLAVA women.  During MMAA’s second Sports Carnival, some KLAVA ladies ran for us in the absent of Pacesetters teams for which they are also members.  Hence, we won both the women’s junior and senior veteran events. However, we are still unable to field any women’s team for some other outside events.   If only the undersigned can get them (the ladies) to  continue running  for KLAVA.  How ?

 Meanwhile, all the members must make efforts to recruit new members, especially  women age 35 – 44 years (Junior veteran) for which we don’t even have enough to form a team of three !  If we can get a group of competitive runners we can form a team to participate in the Penang’s Round The Houses Road Relay under the women’s veteran category  scheduled for 17 April 2005.  With good planning, better preparation and the supporting budget, we aim to improve further in our quest for glory in the good name of KLAVA. All the good results will generate good publicity which in turn will attract sponsors.

 Finally the undersigned hope that all the runners will continue to represent KLAVA and in return they be duly rewarded in future for their efforts and loyalty with KLAVA all these years.  As a token sum of appreciation, the undersigned proposed some form of awards i.e. trophies etc. for various excellent performance.  Let us hear it from the Exco members ?

 EDDY CHOO

8 January 2005