Last weekend was my scheduled run for the month of April, the NatGeo Earth Day Run 2011. I was excited for this event considering that it has the same organizer with Condura Skyway Marathon and it was promoted by one of my favorite channels - National Geographic; not to mention that the route organizer is Coach Rio!
Here are some of my feedbacks and observations on the said race, both nice and cruelsome...
We were expecting difficulty on parking spaces due to what we had experienced on our last run - Run United Leg1 2011. But to our luck, we got a legal space just a couple of walk from the starting line. By the way, this race got over 10,000 registrants so most likely it has the same number of runners with Run United.
It was my first time to see a fireworks display right before the race. Somehow it made me amaze and brought up the metabolism within me. Nice job!
A simple announcement lead to confusion to many: "All runners please proceed to the starting line!" I am running for 10k and when we got to the starting line, throngs of people are already there, it was very crowded then! I think organizers should also think and be wary of the announcements that they will be releasing.
Hydration stations were pretty sufficient and traffic flow were strictly implemented on motorists. Just a no-no of scattered plastic cups along the way. We even noticed sponges along EDSA flyover from Kalayaan to Buendia when we are on our way home; please protect also our flyovers!
I was a bit disappointed with this race, why? there are no loot bags! We cannot deny the fact that most of race participants do expect on the giveaways after finishing the race; included here are the booths and program to entertain the numbing muscle pains of the runners. Well, I just stick on my mind that I was able to help other people/specie/our Earth.
On more thing! Having no timing chip for both 3k and 5k races made me think of the whereabouts of their registration fee. It was quite expensive huh! They used bar codes instead, roughly, this would just create inaccurate results.
Over-all, I am happy in joining this race. Maybe not plainly due to the race itself but because of my peers I am with.
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