The North Face Singapore City Race 2013: Result & Event Day

Event: The North Face Singapore City Race 2013
Venue: Singapore
Date: 3^rd March 2013, Sunday
EFRs: EFR 7 & EFR 25 (Both 10KM)

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3^rd March 2013, Singapore once again set their bar high in organizing such an awesome event called Singapore City Race 2013. This is their first time organizing such a race, the event consist of four categories: Mini Distance for 5km, Short Distance for 10km, Mid Distance for 20km and Long Distance for 40KM. All the runners get to explore Singapore in the first The North Face Singapore City Race, a race like no other. This free-form foot race get the runners running through Singapore’s iconic landmarks, discover Singapore in a day from their modern city center, through Singapore River, to Chinatown, old Colonial Singapore, their beautiful gardens and much more. Runners get a glimpse of the rich heritage and color of Singapore. 

Race  kit collection at Marina Square on 16-17^th February 2013

EFR 7 together with EFR 25 and her husband and kids join the race as team called EFR representing our blog. They registered for short distance- 10KM as they ran with kids in 2 strollers. They are given a map of Singapore and 5 checkpoints that they need to go to collect a sticker at each checkpoint and complete the race with all 5 stickers. 

EFR team (EFR 7 and EFR 25 with her family)

For short distance, the race flag off at 9.30am, EFR 7 as the leader and the person in charge to lead the run (as she is good in reading map) planned the route for the race. She decided to go to Checkpoint 2 (near Chinatown) then Checkpoint 4 (near riverside point) then Checkpoint 3 (on top of the hills of Fort Canning Park), followed by Orchard Road as Checkpoint 6 (in front of Ion Orchard) and the last Checkpoint 5 (at Bugis area) before heading back to finish line across Millenia Walk where the race started.

EFR 7 showing the route to EFR 25

As they run or they called it strolling with the kids, they don’t really run during the race, they walk and pushing the stroller along the way. They didn’t get the best timing, infact 6^th place from the last (368 out of 373 teams), with a timing 4hrs and 39 mins,yet they didn’t bother about the timing as they had so much fun exploring the city. Most of the time they were camwhoring, taking picture of the iconic landmarks and their running moments, not to forget had to change the diapers for the baby, feed the baby and make some milk, toilet break, window shopping (can u imagine they had a window shopping time during the race), having their lunch break at Shiraz Mazzeh having premium lamb kebab and beef kebab, and eating the famous 1 dollar ice cream in a bun along orchard road.

EFR 7 pushing the stroller up the hills of Fort Canning Park (3^rd Checkpoint)

EFR 25 having fun with her husband and the kids

Their lunch at Shiraz Mazzeh Kebab along Orchard Road

Having 1 dollar ice cream in bun at Orchard Road

The race is a good way promoting Singapore and a good tourism idea to attract people to join the race in the future. Some of Singaporean runners who did 40km run also said there are many place that they haven’t explore in their own country and they also had so much fun in that race.

At the finishing line, all the runners are provided with isotonic drinks, yogurt bar, apple, orange, banana, chicken subway for non muslim, veggie subway for vegetarians and the one that caught our attention was they even provided food for muslim runners. The meal was awesome.

Food after the run

All and all, from the feedback of EFR 7 and EFR 25, they definitely wanna join the race again next year if the Organizer decided to have it, as they are totally happy and enjoy the race. For EFR 7, she said she love the idea of the race and the sightseeing so she plan to join the mid distance in the future and get a better timing for sure. Thumbs up to the organizer, it was an awesome event.

EFR 7 with her 10km finisher medal and running bib with complete 5 checkpoints stickers