Onattycan: SpongeBob Run 2017

Sunday, 26 March 2017

SpongeBob Run 2017

26 March 2017
Setia City Park
Supposed to flag off at 7a.m. but all runners were flagged off at 8.10a.m.
My category – 3 km (accompanying my little girl)
Price – RM85.00 per runner for early bird and RM95 for normal rate
Race Pack – Fluorescent yellow t-shirt, drawstring bag, SpongeBob pillow, registration bib and Sunway Lagoon vouchers
Goodies – Medal and a bottle of mineral water

We were asked by the organiser (on their facebook page) to arrive at Setia City Park at 6.30a.m. We arrived at 6.10a.m., parked our car at the open car park (which was not free and we had to pay RM4.00) and walked towards the stage. The organisers and sponsors were setting up their booth.

All the runners waited and waited and waited. An emcee came to stage at about 7a.m. and there were so many runners already queuing behind the starting point and the emcee told those runners to come to the front of the stage for warm-ups and safety briefing.

We were getting tired of waiting and the emcee kept on saying, we will start soon. But when? No time was mentioned at all. What was the organiser waiting for? Nobody knew what happened that day.

The emcee did the warm-up with us at 7.30a.m. He was hilarious and trying his best to entertain us, which he did. After the warm-up and safety briefing, we were asked to walk towards the starting line. Again, we had to wait for radio deejays to give speeches and they brought out SpongeBob to the starting line. They flagged us off in 2 waves, ignoring whether you are running 3 km or 5 km. We were at the side of the starting point and ran in the first wave.

1st wave to run

I was impressed that my little girl was running. There was one water station only for both 3km and 5km runners, serving mineral water and Revive isotonic drinks. We took both of the drinks. After a brief stop, we continued to run. There were times my little girl walked as she was tired already. She said she wanted to walk back to the starting point. I kept on encouraging her to run on…..

Run Baby Run

When she saw the finishing line, she decided to speed up to get her medal. She finished the run in 30 minutes. It was a very smooth run, on the road with no slopes at all.

There she goes......

Since daddy is one of the top 5 runners for the day, he decided to play games at the carnival and won stickers for Salaree and got himself a big bottle of Pokka Peach tea for us. All of us queued up later for the Astro spin and win game. We won an Astro sticker and fan and ice-cream potong. Salaree managed to get the ice-cream potong with her spinning wheel.