Run United 2 is the last in the Runrio Trilogy 2010. Two batches of runs were scheduled on Nov 20 & 21 ( 3-10-21kms on the 20th and 5-15-32kms on the 21st). Registration opened on Oct 10 . We usually run on sunday so that my 2 children and I registered early for the 5km .
When we registered we got only 2 singlets and we were told that the remaining singlet would be available after 2 weeks. Apparently , there was a problem with the singlet supplier and the organizer had to get another supplier in china & air transport the bulk of the singlets . The organizer promised to text us when the singlet was ready to be picked up.
10 days before the run and still there's no text from the organizer. Luckily, when i registered on Nov 11 at ROX for the Sugar Rush run on Nov 14, i asked the unilab booth if i can get the singlet from them even though we registered at Glorietta. They said that there's a booth right outside ROX where the organizer was distributing singlets. So i checked it out and behold, there were boxes of singlet. I am happy that i got our remaining singlet.
On the day of the run, we found out that 5k runners numbered to 5,000! No wonder Coach Rio has already anticipated the big turn out that's why there were two separate dates. Gun started at 545am and off we go.
There were three water stations for 5k and am saddened that lots of used plastic cups littered the water station areas. This was too bad for the environment. I hope there will be a way to curb this not-eco friendly practice.
I crossed the finish line at 33 mins; a 2 minute improvement of my time. My son came in second and daughter, third.
Like past runrio events, this run was a huge success. It was very organized-- sufficient water stations, lots of freebies, with photovendo, no long queues to get your loot bags. Coach Rio was hands on and he saw to it that the runners would have fun ,satisfaction and memorable run.
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