Score Cupid Run 2016

• 14 February 2016
• Kepong Metropolitan Park  
• Flagged off at 7.30a.m. in stages
• Only 1 category – 4km fun run
• Price – RM85.00 inclusive GST
• Race Pack – Drawstring Red Bag for woman and Blue Bag for man, Pink T-Shirt for woman and light blue T-shirt for man, expired magazines, Rexona, Perskindol cool and warm gel, Shaklee Fish oil, vouchers, Oreo cookies, muesli bar, Watson’s wet wipes, registration tag
• Goodies – Medal and bread upon finishing the run 

Steve and I left home at 6.00a.m. and arrived at a park and realised that there was nobody at the parking lot. There were no signs or advertisements that pointed out that it’s the Score Cupid Run. We were like “OMG”, I think we went to the wrong park. I started calling Cindy and Rinnie as they had already arrived at the right park.

So we decided to ask the GPS again and Waze and we are about 15 minutes away from the actual park. We arrived at the correct park at 6.45a.m. and the run was supposed to start at 7 am. There was a huge queue / traffic jam going into the entrance of the park, so Steve and I decided to just park at the shoulder of the road and walk into the park instead.  

We headed towards the toilet as we need to collect our race packs from Virginie, who managed to find a parking nearby there.

After wearing our t-shirts and meeting the rest, i.e. Sheila, Sue, Michelle, Rinnie and Cindy, we walked towards the starting point of the run.

Light blue T-shirt for male

Pink T-shirt for ladies

We waited and waited and waited. The organiser decided to flag off at 7.30am by allowing approximately 100 runners only. After 10 minutes, approximately another 100 runners and so on. When they reached the 4^th round, they decided to let the rest go as they could see the rest of the runners were being impatient and restless.  We started the run at 7.50am.

I was telling Steve it’s going to be a fun run and we need to stop at the pit stop. He was complaining non-stop from the beginning of the run.

After walking approximately 1 km, we arrived at our 1^st pit stop. We had to queue to take pictures with the Disney princesses and we played a game, separating the green beans from the white beans within 30 seconds. Cindy and I were partners and we managed to do it within the stipulated timeline and we won ourselves, Jack and Jill potatoes’ crisps and Cream-O chocolate cookies (similar to Oreos).

Posing with the Disney princesses

Then, we continued to walk until we came to the 2^nd pit stop. We queued up for a game called unlocking locks. We needed to find the correct key (1 out of 10) to unlock the lock within 30 seconds. As the queue was getting long, the organiser decided that they should reduce the time to 20 seconds and reduces the number of keys. Cindy said to choose the smallest key and I managed to unlock it with just 1 try. We were asked to choose a tutu, flower headband or power bank as our gift. Unfortunately, the power bank was the popular choice and it was long gone, so we decided on flower headband. I chose purple flower headband for Salaree.

Unlocking locks. The answer is the smallest key. Just observe people in front of you and you will be able to figure out which key.

Check out the queue

There was also photo taking under the decorated tent by putting on the tutu and again, photo session with the Disney princesses, which we decided to skip and run to the next pit stop.

The tent 

Striking a pose inside the tent

We walked and ran and passed the bridge, covered with rose petals across a beautiful man-make lake. After the bridge, there comes the water station that serve Revive isotonic drink and mineral water. Along the run, there were toilets in the park.  

Bridge with rose petals

The 3^rd and final pit stop was indeed the nicest spot to snap photos.  There was a long queue to take photo with the horse and carriage. While I was queuing up, Steve went up to the staircase tower to snap a photo of the surroundings.  When our turn to take picture finally came, we were informed by the organiser again that the queue is very long and not to climb up to the carriage. I was pretty disappointed so I just stand on the carriage staircase.

Horse and carriage ride

Check out the queue again

After the horse and carriage photo session, we proceed to take photo at the pumpkin booth and thereafter at the bicycle balloon arch.

Pumpkin photo booth

Bicycle balloon arch

So again, Steve was complaining as we took about 2 hours to complete the 4km fun run and he was unable to time himself how long he will take to complete a 4km run.

Upon arrival at the finishing line, we were separated to man and woman sections as the heart shaped medal was different. Once you combine 2 medals together, it becomes the interlocking heart medal (2 in 1). We were also given bread roll and proceed to take our paper cups Revive isotonic drink or mineral water.      

The interlocking heart shaped medal. 

There were booths set up to entertain the runners, i.e. water paint brush, where the artist will paint a small picture onto your arms/legs, zumba session, food stall and photo session booth. There were other vendors as well selling their merchandise, for example drinks, ice-cream and kites (since Kepong Metropolitan Park is also well known as a kite-flying park).  

Zumba

Vendor selling colourful and different shapes and sizes of kites

Although, we paid RM85 per person, the goodies bag and the medal were worth it. But I felt it could have been better if the organiser could have been punctual with the flagged off time and if I remembered correctly, there was supposed to be the 4^th pit stop, but there was no 4^th pit stop.   

Check out the pictures below:-