Should have stayed in bed all morning to enjoy the uncommon chilly weather. Somehow, we managed to crawl out of bed to all geared up for our very FIRST run together! Mizuno Wave Run 2007! The first run in this year for me, the first race for Elisha!
We went with high spirits but... sad to say, the run was TERRIBLY organised and everyone, I mean, EVERYONE was complaining and grumbling all morning! Firstly, there was a huge jam when we were trying to get into Temasek Poly (the start point), where we spent at least 30 minutes just to enter the carpark. Secondly, the start point was very chaotic, no one knew where to register for the run and where to deposit out baggage. Thirdly, the race route was slippery and muddy (due to the downpour), and hazy (no markers to tell us where to run, no road marshalls to direct the way) and ambiguous (Biwei and I got lost running our second half of the marathon with no one else around but 2 old men; Elisha was directed to run back to TP's start point at the stadium, only to be turned away by the security guard!) Forthly, when trying to get our goodie bag after the "race", we were utterly confused again! Everyone was simply squeezing their way into the goodie bag tent. Those who had more social grace formed long snakes of people extending out in all directions from the goodie bag tent! No one really knew where to the start of the queue was, and just did what most Singaporeans are good at doing - stand around queuing.
Nonetheless, Elisha managed to use his good sense and somehow obtained enough goodie bags for all of us... And the goodie bag was quite good - a nice nice Mizuno shoe bag (without any obiang race logo) and a dry fit slinglet! Also, very proud of the fact that Elisha was willing to accompany me for this run, and almost completed 10km - not because he couldn't do it, but because the organiser for this race was just soooooooo messy!
