Step right up ladies, gentlemen, boys and girls of all ages! Get ready to have your senses of sound, sight and touch bombarded. Debuting for the first time in Malaysia, Heart Foundation of Malaysia (Yayasan Jantung Malaysia) will collaborate with Great Eastern Life Assurance (Malaysia) Berhad for the Great Eastern Colour My Heart Run 2015.

Quick: When you see bananas, what comes to mind? If you’re a runner, you know this fruit is loaded with potassium to keep your body firing on all cylinders. If you’re a race observer, a cold banana smoothie during the hot Malaysian summer makes an ideal refresher. But one group of event planners found a more ingenious use for the iconic yellow fruit—you’ll be seeing bananas everywhere if you decide to participate in the 2015 Pisang Relay Penang where standard relay batons are replaced by the tropical fruit! Hand-offs can get messy if runners don’t keep that grip light enough to keep skins intact, but perhaps that’s where the most fun lies. Just don’t be surprised to spot competitors licking their fingers at the finish line!

The Silent Thief of Sight, or Glaucoma, is now one of the world’s leading cause of irreversible blindness! Already afflicting more than 70 million people worldwide, this figure is expected to swell to an overwhelming 88 million by 2020 according to WHO. In Malaysia, more than 100,000 people are estimated to be affected by Glaucoma.

Returning on Thursday, 23 April 2015, the 12th J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge® is now open for registration. Celebrate team spirit and sign up with your colleagues for the annual 5.6km corporate team run! The first of its kind in Singapore, the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge is part of a worldwide series which features races in 13 cities in seven countries on five continents.

Valentine’s day may just be over but you do not need a special day to show your affection or be romantic, and for runners, who says running can’t be a romantic romp in the park? True, you and your honey are likely to get all hot and sweaty if you pick up the pace and run your race, but after all, hot and heavy are the trademarks of a great love affair.

It does not matter how much sweet-smelling fabric softener you add to your laundry – nor does it matter how many personal odor-prevention aids you put on before setting out for regular or competitive runs – you’re going to end up in the Land of Stinky, Dirty Running Clothes by day’s end. It’s a fact of nature: You sweat. And just about everything you eat and drink – and your current state of physical health – can alter body chemicals that wind up in your unique sweat mix, so you might as well accept your fate and develop a bag of tricks to combat the scourge