POTD 14-03-10

This morning went to take part in the North East run, 5km category. it supports Go Red for women which is aimed to rasie awareness for cadio diseases among ladies.

It was quite a good run, din go all out but took a comfortable jog actually, completed in a self-timed duration of 30'38. The timing is not very good but at a nice pace.

The negativity that came with this experience was that the run was held in pasir ris park and it was SMALL. lol. the paths were rather narrow as well cos it wasnt designed to hold such bigger crowds. it was also a humid and sunny sunday morning thus i was sweating like mad and feeling the stickinessssssss on my skin. hahaha..

another minus-point abt the race was the bag deposit area. I think it was rather disorganised and it looked as though they didnt arrange the bags in order of the numerical labels and the place was also very small and cramped. Perhaps so, it was obvious that they had a difficult time trying to locate runners' bags at the time of collection. it took them qt some time to find my bag and i was waiting there feeling all sticky and just couldnt wait to get away from that area la..

one interesting encounter i had:

at the start, before the race i went over to the drink station to get a drink cos i was feeling a bit thirsty and dry, but then one uncle manning the station looked at me and realised that i hadnt started running.. so he kinda told me to get the drink (in cups) after the run and the reason he gave, which i was qt amused at, was that it would make his their job easier. o.O right? haha but at the pt of time i was more amused den annoyed. hahhaa. damn lame i feel its not right to say so and just to make ur life easier u ask ppl not to get the drink? hmmmm..

also, at the drinks station they poured water, and presumably ice and 100 plus into huge tubs and then distributed the diluted drink using jugs, into cups. i felt that it was rather unhygienic and not v clean, the drink wasnt very nice as well, i guess the proportion used in mixing was not uniform..

This device at the back of the number tag was also qt unprofessional but still acceptable haha. just that its a bit hard and cannot bend, but it gave minimal discomfort.

But the medal (refer to pic above) was nice and the details that came along were cute. nice eh?

the next run is probably passion run in may, still a long way to go! haha there was a run being promoted this morning but its like on the 25th April, which is one day before my mkt final paper! lol.