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Run For Hope

Written at Sunday, November 21, 2010 | back to top

yeahh.. this was another running event which was subsidised by Subordinate Courts. i received an email from the SubCt Sports Committee regarding the run, and SubCt will subsidise $10 for us if we join the run.

Ginnette, Xue Ni and me decided to join again together with other Sports Committee members, Lisa was kinda tempted to join, but she doesn't want to run 10km. so in order to make her join with us, we decided to only go for the 4km run instead, to run together with her xD.

i woke up at 5am, left house at 6am to Outram MRT Station. Lisa reached Outram too early that the first train was not even operating yet. lol. we met up with Ginnette's friend, Dickson, too. he actually joined the 10km run with his friend, but all his friends last minute pang seh him, and since he doesn't want to run alone, so he joined us for the 4km instead. lol

we took train to Eunos, and transferred bus 13 to East Coast Park. reached at around 7am xD

beautiful sunrise at 7.15am!!

S.M.I.L.E

we looked really mini here xD

well, the Run For Hope starting point was really far from where we were. we were like walking and walking from one area to another, and we still don't see sign of the carnival booth and so on.

and just for the walking part alone already took us 30 minutes to reach the starting point. like super lame. why is it located so far inside?!

Run For Hope banner spotted xD

unlimited milo provided from the Milo truck

(is it the milo that gave me diarrhoea the next day? hmm)

Start Point..

yes, finally bumped into some SubCt colleagues, Sarah and Helmy, the photographer of the day. quickly ran forward to take some photos with them.... because i want my photo to appear in SubCt's intranet. lol, no lah no lan. just kidding =X

group photo with some SubCt staffs

and yeah, off we run for our 4km. anyway, the run wasn't that bad. but i really really don't quite like to run long distance at East Coast Park. at least, if i ran outside, by the roadside or what, i get to see some changes of scenery on my running route. it gave me motivation to run.

however, when running at East Coast Park, i see only sky, sea and trees. and the running route from head to toe looked exactly the same. no cars, no buildings, nothing =/

anyway, i still managed to complete the run by running half and walking half. lol. and for this run, we don't have a number bib, we don't have a D-tag, because this was a charity run, not a competitive race =) we're running for charity!

Finish Point. ^^Y

immediately, we went to the deposit baggage area to retrieve back our bags. and i utterly regretted to deposit my bag in the blue zone. some clown's bag couldn't be found, and thus my queue was jammed down there, not moving at all. maybe it did, but tiny bits of movement only.

Lisa was the first to collect her bag, and then slowly followed by Ginnette and Xue Ni. i was the only idiot left behind together with my super-long-not-moving-queue with all the unfortunate people who deposited the bag at the blue zone.

i waited for extra 30 minutes myself standing under the super hot sun, stepping on super muddy grass and waiting for my super slow queue to move. yeah. my skin colour was definitely much much more darker than the rest, because i had an additional 30 minutes of "sun-tanning" session while the rest stand under shade to wait for me. lol

crowd at the booth area

bags collected finally xD

a group photo with the FINISH banner!!!

another group photo

super dirty and muddy poor shoes.

we walked back the super long distance back to Area C. it's like we walked 3km to the starting point, and the ran for 4km, and then walked another 3km from finishing point back to Area C, lol. so can i say we total walk and run 10km?! lol. anyway, we went McDonald's for breakfast, super hungry xD

breakfast!!!

the 3 of us squeezed inside the handicapped toilet to get changed!

and next, Dickson told us that if we register our Sundown Marathon at Expo today, we can get free Sundown 2010 race shirt. yes yes, the race was held in May this year, and they have like alot shirt left, so they are giving it out for free to those who registered at Expo today.

anyway, we have already planned to join Sundown in the first place, so we might as well go down to Expo and register since it was just nearby.

Lisa didn't come with us to Expo because she does not have the intention to join Sundown, and so she left home first while the 4 of us took bus to Bedok and took train down to Expo.

there's some exhibition hall with anime booth inside which drew Ginnette and Xue Ni's attention. they got lured inside to the hall, and Xue Ni started spamming money on Stitch's items.

there's another booth selling alot japanese foods and sweets, and there's a Scrump soft toy which immediately caught Xue Ni's attention. she was down there struggling whether to buy or not, while i'm beside her brainwashing her that, our pay is coming, counter allowance is coming and most importantly, bonus is coming in as well xD

ya, she couldn't resist and buy it in the end. lol. Ginnette and Xue Ni also bought quite a few types of sweets. i only bought 1 grape chewy sweet just to help them to hit $30 so that they can be members =X

Scrump soft toy, sweets and member cards

there's this packet of sweets which was quite fun to play with. the sweet was originally all in purple colour, but it will slowly changed to either shiny transparent, transparent, yellow or green.

the shiny transparent got the best of luck, but there's only 1 inside the whole packet. transparent would be good luck, yellow was normal and lastly green was the bad luck one.

so the 4 of us took 1 each, Dickson was the sway-est among us all because his sweet was green straight. he don't even have the chance to see it turned from purple to green, it's green on the spot for him LOL. and the 3 of us each got purple one, which means we still have chance xD

SWEETS xD

we started chewing the sweets, and waited for it to slowly change colour. well, i got transparent sweet, running good luck? yay. Ginnette got yellow and Xue Ni got the green one LOL. i was kinda surprised that i got the transparent one becuase i have been down on my luck for the past few days. so i guess, my unlucky days are coming to an end, and lady luck was awaiting for me? xD

well, enough of it, and we proceeded to another exhibition hall for our Sundown 2011 registration. yeah, registration finally opens. i waited for very long =/

Sleep Can Wait.

Sundown Marathon 2011

we queued up to get our registration done, paid $42 for a 10km race, and we got an additional Sundown 2010 race shirt for free =) anyway, Sundown was much much more expensive than other marathon. i only paid $26.75 for Nike Run loh =/ see the difference, almost double the price loh =S

so happy that we finally registered for it. now have to go back and ask Audrey and Daphne to register too. early bird does have discount. haha. and we tried to psyco Dickson to join as well =D

a photo with our free Sundown 2010 race shirt.

SUNDOWN MARATHON 2011, here i come!!!!!

28/05/2011

Labels: events, exercise, marathon, running