We participated in the Run For Life's 10 km event on 19 July 2014. We intended this event to be a recovery run for both of us. Simon was recovering from his quarterly blood donation at the National Blood Bank. Rachel, on the other hand, just had her monthly cancer treatment 2 days before the run and had not fully recovered from the side effects. Nevertheless, this charity event turned out to be a well organised and enjoyable event.
Being a charity run, one would expect most participants to be less competitive. True enough, this was one rare race whereby many participants started walking since gun time. This posed a slight problem as the choke was formed as early as 100 metres from the start line. It didn't help that East Coast Park was already crowded on a usual weekend. A group run event on a Saturday morning would only mean congestion. This, however, did not dampen our spirits. After all, we were there for a charity run. We were running for a good cause! What PB? Let's forget it just once!
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| Ran past Mdm. Jenap a.k.a "Catwoman" |
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| Simon's last 200m to Finish Line (Courtesy from Photography Club "Run Mo Cap") |
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| Simon made a U-turn after crossing the finishing line to look for wife |
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| Happy Wife, Happy Life :D |
There were a good 3,000+ runners in this event. We heard this was a good improvement from last year. We were impressed with the orderly organisation. The only downside would be the delayed release of race results (results were released only after 6 days) and the lack of net timing information (only gun time race results were provided) for participants. For the benefit of those who completed a 5 or 10 km run early in the morning (especially when runners were flagged off in different waves), it would make most happy if the net timings could be released - this is more for acknowledging their efforts albeit most runners treated this as a leisure run instead of a competitive run.
The race atmosphere was a gleeful one. This run had exceeded our expectation for a charity run. All in all, it had impressed us enough to return next year.
