Nike We Run KL 10K

Event;Nike We Run KL 10K
Place:Padang Merbok,Kuala Lumpur
Date:Sunday 27 Nov 2011,7:00am


I managed to register for this run immediately after running The King of The Road a few weeks ago.However Teng and Heng did not managed to register in time as the registration was closed very much earlier due to popular demand.

Initially I wasn't very keen to run at this race as there is no finishing medal and I thought running timing chips will not be used too.I was wrong as I did not bother to find out about this Nike event.Everything from collecting the race pack,information and route of the run was handled by Lau and Steve.

I just drove both of them to the Padang Merbok and run......

and I have no regret waking up so early today and joining Lau/Steve for this short 10km run.

***Immediately after finishing,plenty of mineral bottle drinks,bananas and a free Nike shoe shaped USB for all runners.***

It was a flat route,maybe a mild slope or two.No killing hills as intially thought.However there were many runners all dressed up in the red Nike T-shirts.From far,we all looked like colonies of small red ants.A very beautiful scene but too bad,I did not bring my camera.

***"Red ants"...in Padang Merbok taken after the run.The time printed on the picture is wrong as I did not set the time on my old hand phone.Nowadays I usually carried my old hand phone during run as I am afraid of losing my new handset...after the bad experience in Seremban Half Marathon***

Steve wanted to "pia"from the start and he found his way to the front of the crowd while Lau and me stayed somewhere in the middle of the crowd.It took us almost 3 minutes to get to the starting line after the race has started.This reminds me of the same situation during the starting of the full marathon event in Singapore Marathon.

***Runners hanging around the road leading to the finishing line.There were still many runners returning as we were walking back to our car.***

Lau intended to run at his marathon pace of 6min/km and I just followed him as I have not been running for some time.My plan was just to take it easy and see if my legs can still take it after such a long rest from running.

Lau and I ran together from the start until the end.We crossed the finishing line together.Hopefully I can find of a photo of us crossing the finishing line together .

The results of S2 runners:

Uu Ban 49 minutes

Steve 54 minutes

Lau and myself 58minutes 42 seconds

***The only gift after the run...a nice beautiful cutely shaped Nike shoe USB.I like this.Runners also get a nice red Nike T-shirt and a plastic Nike tumbler given out earlier in the race pack.***

Generally it was a well organised run.

Good points:

Plenty of drinks stations;4 stations for a 10km route.

Post run:Plenty of bananas,free ice creams,drinks and entertainment.

Bad points:

Human congestion!!At certain points,hardly can run.Can only do slow jog as it was too crowded with so many runners running on one lane of the road.Have to watch out for runners in front to avoid colliding into them and have to pay attention to moving cars on the next lane.Bad!!Bad!!Bad!!

Suggestion:

Organiser should close the whole road throughout the entire route in the future.Remember...there are ten thousands runners!Half a lane is definitely not enough space for all of us to run.