perhaps buying the phone without contract is the choice for me…the $300 is…with or w/o contract?

I guess they should make it more explicit on the start or maybe on the race manual on that, as every year, it’s always a smooth road or pavement race round the marina south area, so I guess that was something we always expected or maybe take things granted every year I guess. But no one can deny that the trail came as a surprise for many, not only for myself, but even the competitive army teams my friend was in, who were only told by their coach to expect some terrain leading to the barrage just before the race.

Collected da Nike+ 10km pack today. It’s quite crowded there but no queue, 1min wait time. It’s quite smooth flowing with 11 counters open. Was told only 3 were open yesterday? Whew!

Another thing is that the new trail that was made available this year.I really wonder if the organisers put themselves in the runners’ shoes whether if the trail is suitable for running?I know the muddy patches were out of their control but the trail is simply not great to run on,this is not the REAL RUN after all!

So in overall,the lay out of the carnival area,visible signages and the new trail were probably the negative points of this year’s race.So maybe 2/5 would be more appropriate then.

Luckily you didn’t go and collect the nike race pack on Sunday,the queue was simply unbelievable.One of my friend who went early in the morning to collect the pack told me that the queue started as early as 8am! No problem with the rain as we were lead into the shelter area,but the queue just seems never ending.

We must also factor out the rain the night before which casues muddy ground. In fact, we must be thankful for rain that give us cooling morning to run. Or else, it will be very hot , especially along the new trail.

I think your rating of the race is very much on your overall impression of the race? given the runners. I think if you factor out the inconsiderate runners you encounter in the race, I can say that the organizing for this year’s race is actually very good.

I almost wanted to collect my Nike+ race pack today, glad I didn’t! It was raining cats and dogs too right?

Upon reaching the carnival area in the morning,my friend and I were greet by the muddy grass all over the place,we tried to make our way through,but by the time we done that,our shoes were already full of mud(Reminds me of the Mizuno Run last year).Like Shaun said,there were no signs around to indicate where the baggage deposit area was,we ended up have to look all over the place,we even asked one of the saf personnel who was clueless as well.

Moving on to the race itself,I started about 10 mins later after flag off as I had to went to the toilet (Queue was damn long).Just like last year,we had to make our way through the crowd as the organisers only opened up a small opening for the 21km category.Wondering if it is because I started late or the route was narrow,I find that I was being held up all the time! Throughout the entire race,I was unable to run freely as there are people who jogged so slowly and even started walking after few kms from the flag off.I was soooo pissed that I feel like shouting at them.These people are just basically taking their own sweet time to run or walk at their pleasure even at the centre of the road,there are even some SAF unit runners walked side by side chatting and almost took up the entire road! Maybe there should be a rule that those who cannot run should be more considerate and go to the side of the road and not get in other runners’ way.

Talking about the new trail,it was a one hell of a disaster.That type of trail is the last thing any runner would want.The trail was uneven,and unsuitable to run on.Not to mention the rain the night before have made the situation worse.The banner that greeted runners at the entry point states “New trail,better timing”,but it’s more like “New trail, poorer timing” to me!

For the rest of the route was ok just that it was the same old problem where many runners who stopped running got into my way.And when I finally saw the finishing line,I was so happy to see that and I finished it the “Usain Bolt” way.LOL.

To post race,the problem of no signages presented itself again.I had to figured myself on where to find where to collect my finisher medal and drinks.Not to mention I have to walk through the stupid muddy area inside the carnival area once more.

The bag collection was really a breeze as when I made my way to collect my bag,one of the army guys waved at me to tell me I could collect my bag at his counter.How I wished everything went as smoothly as that.

Overall I would give this year’s race 1 out of 5,and the 1 only coming from the baggage deposit.

Like I said at the beginnering,this year’s race was a disaster.Hopefully they can organise the same one like last year which I enjoyed very much.

After the run,my friend and I decided to proceed to clarke quay to collect our race packs for the Nike human race.Just when we thought that we should be able to collect it smoothly as the collection time had just begun at 10am,we were wrong,dead wrong.We were shocked by the length of the queue which stretched all the way from the collection area which was the centre atrium of clarke quay all the way to the public carpark that was located behind Liang Court! Which I think is about at least 500 to 600metres long! There were hundreds of people in the queue and alot of them were just like us who came right after the AHM.The wait was so long and frustrating especially after the AHM as our legs were quite tired.We ended up waited for 4 hours starting from 10.15am to about 2.20pm!

What I don’t understand is that why the organisers held the race pack collection on Sunday and Monday instead of Friday to Sunday.I’m guessing the reason why so many people turned up is because the following collection day,Monday,is a working and school day and many of the people would be unable to turn up to collect their race pack.And Clarke Quay was such a unsuitable location to conduct something like that and that is another thing i don’t understand why they choose there.

The race pack collection could have been much smoother if the organisers had planned it over 3 days like Friday to Sunday and at a much better location.This incident just shows that how unprepared the organisers are for a event like this.Let’s just hope next week’s run would go smoothly.

i know registration for nike+human race is now closed but is there anyway i can still run this race??

thanks!

below extracted from the race guide.

You are required to wear the Nike+ Human Race 10K Tee with the bib number printed on it and your coloured wrist tag to enter the race
2 or race village. Failing to do so will result in disqualification from the race.

thanks

Thanks.

I am still getting quite alot of emails asking where the results can be obtained. So I will post the link here.

To get the results of the race, download the PDF file here.

After that, no more reservations will be entertained, and you can’t get a set (unless there is still stock when you walk into a HELLO! store AFTER priority customers get their set)

The iPhone 3G will be out on Friday, August 22nd.

Pricing is not out yet, but I do have connections who can get you a set before stock runs out.

You see, Singtel has set up policy to streamline the purchases - reservation of 1 set per customer, and they will serve customers who have reserved a set before walk-in customers.

So, do e-mail me for mroe info.:smile:

Now if HP and IBM server prices are only cheaper…