Standard Chartered Marathon 2011

It was my first time helping out in Standard Chartered Marathon. For the past few years the one and only thing that came to my mind when I heard this marathon was Road closure. You can never imagine how much I dislike road closure especially when I was going for work. But now if you were to ask me again, my answer would be very different.

Well, I still find it boring, wasting of time and meaningless when I was still aheading to F1 Pit Building to gather and as well as collection of our uniform. Because all we did was wait and wait and still wait for instructions.

But it gets slightly better when we reached our destination. We were being assigned to serve 100 plus drinks to the runners. The person in charge of our station estimated that the first runner might reach our station at around 6am, therefore we were supposed to get prepared and ready for drinks at 5.40am. But who knows, the first runner ran towards us at 5.35am. Drinks were not ready, he took 2 EMPTY cups. I don't know about others but I was feeling rather guilty. Try to put yourself in his shoes and you'll understand the feelings. I had been 2.4km NAPFA before, I know the feeling of needing water to keep you going. Moreover he ran for 42km leh! SIGH.. Ok, then I got even excited after that. Mayb for the first 100 runners? It was HELL after that. You can never imagine how busy we were. My body was full of 100 plus leh! No joke. From hair to toe. Tsk, damn pathetic. I threw away my school shoes on the spot. Can imagine?!

However, it was a fun and good experience though it was really tiring. I kind of enjoyed myself over there BESIDE waiting for transport. Really, that one really can kill people. We waited for about 2 hours I think? Sitting at the road side leh! I still think that the whole event wasn't well organised... Tsk, really wasted. But still, a fun trip! Especially the bonding part with my classmates. Because I've never thought I'll spending a night with them like this... -.- Anyway still a good try! :)