POTD 10-04-10

went for the starhub urban freestlye run this afternoon and i would have to say it wasnt a particularly good experience.


k the bib is not bad the shirt is okay, haha but the cost for the run was very high at S$55 dollars! its a 6.5km run but the thing which attracted me and eric and junhao to join was the interesting obstacles. its like a run with 9 diff "obstacles" along the way which actually serves more of advertising den challenge haha. but the idea was fresh and sounded interesting thus we signed up for it.

however, when we reached there, the first thing alr made us sian diao a bit. it was the muddy grasssss. cos it had rained in the morning and at the padang, the grass was muddy and our shoes were dirtied. it was qt sian esp for me as my shoes are quite new!! luckily its the army pair though ahha less heartache.

as for the run itself, the "security guy" who detailed ppl to be dispatched in batches was also too fierce and unfrenly for my liking. den as the run started, it was apparent that it was v poorly organised.

station-wise that is. becos there are soooooo many ppl compared to obstacles and being obstacles, time was needed for runners to clear them and it was not fufilling to run, den stop and queue for the obstacle. thats sucked. we waited damn long at the sony ericsson station. (well if thats the tactic to get ppl to rmbr there brand name than that worked perfectly lol) we waited for like about more than 45 mins just to climb over a "low wall" of a sony phone. hahaha...

the rest are also a bit sian diao altho we didnt really wait a long time, but the pt is that the run being not smooth and interrrupted largely negates the positive points taken from the run. haha i dun wish to elaborate too much but overall, the stations were not very fun and i cannot imagine runners who were on their own. how would they have survived the long waiting times alone!?

so i guess its a poor run overall. not satisfying. but nonetheless it was very interesting concept. i guess stations have to be built to accomodate more ppl at one go and that runners really need to be flagged off at longer intervals, which would den make the waiting-to-start part sucky too. zz.

but the towel and a adidas bag (below) were quite nice hahahah guess these and the company are the things i can take back today. lol.


i would not recommend ppl to run and will not take part in this again, unless maybe after a few years if its still held and much improved, then i will consider.