Nike+ Run The Human Race
Sunday 31st August 2008, was Singapore's first ever Nike Human Race. Trust me, when I was on the train that day, every other stranger around me were wearing the same red Nike shirt for the run. Since each person has a unique number printed on the shirt, I totally felt like I was on a train that is fetching prisoners to a faraway island.
The run was 10km, and I really enjoyed it alot, together with all the wonderful entertainment along the running route. It had to be one of the best runs (no not diarrhea) I ever had, except for the part whereby people suddenly stop to walk and bottleneck regions of the jogging route. Totally broke my momentum so many times, made me unable to hit below 1 hour.
But anyway, the week before, if you remember, I was saying that I queued 5 hours for the goodie bag right? So well, the only useful (and really worth it) stuffs are like the tee-shirt, the Nike water bottle and, the tote bag itself.
*The Nike Race Pack*
And yes back to the race proper, there was a part when suddenly the panda mascot was running beside me at the same speed, and I was like "wth, how can someone wearing a mascot costume be running at the same pace as I am?!" and totally spurred me to run on faster haha. Joanne Peh was there too, but I didn't see her though. Met Kheng Boon on the way too, and also my army pal, who is also working for Nike. Okay now I have two friends working in Nike. Maybe I should join them muahaha... Wanted to watch Boys Like Girls perform Live but they, for obvious reasons, had to put the long-awaited performance at the last, allowing the local talents to perform first. So I decided not to stay.
And I saw familiar faces at the finishing stretch cheering people on! The NTU ACES team was there, and I saw Mun Chun, Ya Yun, and Rina. Funny that I don't really know Rina, but she gave me a High-5 when I ran past them haha.
*Waiting for the flag-off*
*The Panda mascot*
*Drummers providing entertainment along the Singapore River*
*People stop running at such areas, causing the jam*
*Us after the run*
*Chin Teck and I decided to play Pass-The-Baton*
Okay okay, and in my last post on Hall 12 D&D, I mentioned that good luck came to me in another form right? Here's the whole story. The emcees for the concert at the Padang were throwing iPod Nanos down to the audiences as free gifts! So the catch is, well, you have to go catch it! But me, being the lazy person as usual, was like "aiyah, sure won't be able to catch one la, tons of people snatching for it lea." and then the guy emcee, Utt (The Brand's Cheeken Essence guy), threw one iPod Nano off the stage. I saw it fly and everyone was like trying to grab for it. So at that moment, I thought, "aiyah since i'm already here, just join in the fun lor." And the moment I raised my hand to pretend to want to catch it, that freaking iPod bounced off somebody else's hand, and landed right onto my palm!!
*Concert stage where the iPod Nano was thrown from*
At that moment, I was like "OMG!!!" and in that instant, I knew I had to start running away from the crowd, just like how a rugby player, who has caught the rugby ball, has to run for his life. Haha, and Nick, JJ, and Adrian all started jumping onto me like rugby players trying to snatch the ball from me! Haha... I'm one lucky bitch.... It was a Silver 4GB iPod Nano that I caught!
*My iPod Nano*
Anyway, I hope there will be another Nike Human Run next year, because it really is meaningful to run for a cause (choose 1 out of the 3 possible charity organizations) and the goodie bag stuffs are really worth it too. Nike is too rich. Haha.
The race results are also out.... and I really performed like shit compared to the top runner from Germany. And Singapore's acerage timing was also quite bad... The pictures speak for themselves. Only consolation was that I'm better than Singapore's average timing (^^,)v
*I'm rank no. 152954*
*We don't see Singapore here*
*Singapore is ranked no. 25!*
The run was 10km, and I really enjoyed it alot, together with all the wonderful entertainment along the running route. It had to be one of the best runs (no not diarrhea) I ever had, except for the part whereby people suddenly stop to walk and bottleneck regions of the jogging route. Totally broke my momentum so many times, made me unable to hit below 1 hour.
But anyway, the week before, if you remember, I was saying that I queued 5 hours for the goodie bag right? So well, the only useful (and really worth it) stuffs are like the tee-shirt, the Nike water bottle and, the tote bag itself.
*The Nike Race Pack*And yes back to the race proper, there was a part when suddenly the panda mascot was running beside me at the same speed, and I was like "wth, how can someone wearing a mascot costume be running at the same pace as I am?!" and totally spurred me to run on faster haha. Joanne Peh was there too, but I didn't see her though. Met Kheng Boon on the way too, and also my army pal, who is also working for Nike. Okay now I have two friends working in Nike. Maybe I should join them muahaha... Wanted to watch Boys Like Girls perform Live but they, for obvious reasons, had to put the long-awaited performance at the last, allowing the local talents to perform first. So I decided not to stay.
And I saw familiar faces at the finishing stretch cheering people on! The NTU ACES team was there, and I saw Mun Chun, Ya Yun, and Rina. Funny that I don't really know Rina, but she gave me a High-5 when I ran past them haha.
*Waiting for the flag-off*
*The Panda mascot*
*Drummers providing entertainment along the Singapore River*
*People stop running at such areas, causing the jam*
*Us after the run*
*Chin Teck and I decided to play Pass-The-Baton*Okay okay, and in my last post on Hall 12 D&D, I mentioned that good luck came to me in another form right? Here's the whole story. The emcees for the concert at the Padang were throwing iPod Nanos down to the audiences as free gifts! So the catch is, well, you have to go catch it! But me, being the lazy person as usual, was like "aiyah, sure won't be able to catch one la, tons of people snatching for it lea." and then the guy emcee, Utt (The Brand's Cheeken Essence guy), threw one iPod Nano off the stage. I saw it fly and everyone was like trying to grab for it. So at that moment, I thought, "aiyah since i'm already here, just join in the fun lor." And the moment I raised my hand to pretend to want to catch it, that freaking iPod bounced off somebody else's hand, and landed right onto my palm!!
*Concert stage where the iPod Nano was thrown from*At that moment, I was like "OMG!!!" and in that instant, I knew I had to start running away from the crowd, just like how a rugby player, who has caught the rugby ball, has to run for his life. Haha, and Nick, JJ, and Adrian all started jumping onto me like rugby players trying to snatch the ball from me! Haha... I'm one lucky bitch.... It was a Silver 4GB iPod Nano that I caught!
*My iPod Nano*Anyway, I hope there will be another Nike Human Run next year, because it really is meaningful to run for a cause (choose 1 out of the 3 possible charity organizations) and the goodie bag stuffs are really worth it too. Nike is too rich. Haha.
The race results are also out.... and I really performed like shit compared to the top runner from Germany. And Singapore's acerage timing was also quite bad... The pictures speak for themselves. Only consolation was that I'm better than Singapore's average timing (^^,)v
*I'm rank no. 152954*
*We don't see Singapore here*
*Singapore is ranked no. 25!*Okay I guess that's all for this entry haha. Time for bed.
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