Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon

The day started at 4am. Following my usual race routine, took a nice warm shower, had a quick breakfast and off I went to meet Shah and Andrew. This is my first time taking public transport to a race. It's looks like the daily work peak hours. PACKED!
Well, we have discussed that for the SCM we will do a fun run of 21km
The highlight of the morning is by having Shah wear a tag specially made for him

The race started with a human crowd and took us 10mins to reach the start point. The race began with up and down slopes from sentosa, human jam at Palawan beach, more jam at RWS and even more jams at the slopes from Sentosa. People are practically walking throughout the entire journey at Sentosa. Think they're all totally tired. I was definately tired. I took 2hours just to complete 10km. =(

But thanks to the crowd, many people were giving Shah well wishes for his wedding on 10.11.12

Anyway, back to the run,

Once, we exited Sentosa, great another welcoming slope from AYE-ECP. At least it was not as crowded as in Sentosa, well at least. Managed to clear the human jam this time round. Without much blocking, I managed to climb up and down the expressway.

I think this is my most longest time to completer a 21km. I think I took approximately 2.50mins to complete it.

Overall Review

• Water points were bad! - Isotonic beverage station with no isotonic drink. If there is, it is concentrated.
• Gel station, couldn't even get one.
• Bad strategic location for water points

Suggestions

• Maybe it's time to limit the number of participants? - First come first served basis?
• I think we need to improve on our management of mega events.

We are now thinking of participating in the Ekiden category next year.