Event: The North Face Singapore City Race 2013
Venue: Singapore
Date: 3rd March 2013, Sunday
EFRs: EFR 7 & EFR 25 (Both 10KM)
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3rd 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.
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| Race kit collection at Marina Square on 16-17th 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.
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| 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.
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| 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 6th 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.
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| EFR 7 pushing the stroller up the hills of Fort Canning Park (3rd Checkpoint) |
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| EFR 25 having fun with her husband and the kids |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| EFR 7 with her 10km finisher medal and running bib with complete 5 checkpoints stickers |
