My Melody Run 2019 [5km]

Sometimes I find it super bo liao to travel the distance just to run a 5KM run 😂 The traveling time to the event site might even be longer than the run itself! Hahaha!! 😂 But I just need to remind myself, years ago when I started running, even a little more than 1km was far too long for me to run.

But it's My Melody Run and also the first My Melody Run on Planet Earth! 😍 Though its not my first Sanrio Run. My 2nd ever race that I've participated in was Hello Kitty Run in 2014, held at Sentosa. It was an unforgettable race as it was raining and I was damn poor thing carrying a bag and was almost like walk the entire 5km. New into races, I didn't know there's no baggage deposit 😂 The weather looked threatening machiam it would rain, at least we get to start but while after flagged off, it drizzled and then it became heavy downpour. Phew, it didn't got cancelled halfway through and I got my super cute Hello Kitty finisher medal ❤ Not a collector of race bibs back then and I threw away the cute cute meow meow bib 😭

Met Sabrina for the race pack collection at Novena on Saturday. As Sabrina was early she started queueing and I was showed a super sian photo as the queue was sibeh long like a snake 😨 Fortunately, the entire waiting time was at most 15-20 minutes. There's a super cute race bib, tee shirt and a plush toy 😍

Flag off was at Palawan beach in Sentosa at 8.30am on Mother's Day. There's only the 5km fun run category. On event day, I ran to Sentosa from Novena MRT station to clock some mileage with some of my hard core running friends who've even started their runs from Yishun. It was about a 8km run for me before the event. We reached the event site slightly before 8am, it was hot and the place was already sibeh crowded. The start pen opened at 8am and went in the start pen and were lucky to be in the first wave. We waited a good 30minutes till 8.30am under the sun to start. I felt that the race should start earlier at 8am as 8.30am was rather late and hot already. 

It was a run without a timing chip means our time wasn't recorded so we thought we should have fun unlike the usual runs where we usually run without stopping. Once flag off want to run also tough lah, too many people already and many families with kids and prams. A very warming family day for the mamas ❤ Happy Mother's Day! 😍

After the first km, the route was another good km of upslopes. We sweat a lot even we didn't really run. It's sunny, temperature high, should be high humidity as well. We were already looking for water point just shortly after 1km but almost 2km then there's the water point. 

(Photo credits: @alonslow) 

While some of our friends got caught up in the later waves, we took the opportunity to walk, talk, enjoy the route and take many many pictures while we wait for them to catch up 😊 Distance boards were available every km but the total distance was only about 4.5km. 

And that 2km water point was the one and only water point along the entire route 😢 Really not enough, think minimum also need 2 water points. Must consider there's many many kids eh. Adults can tahan a bit without water but the kids? And heard from a friend that the jia lat thing was that they run out of water at that single water point 😨 At least hope that after completing the run, there's still mineral water left for them. 

There's some activities and photo booths at the race village but we didn't explore around because everywhere people mountain people sea with long and scary queues. We left shortly for breakfast to fill our stomach 😊 

Anyway, the follow up on last week’s Forest Force 50 was super duper disappointing. WTF is a 10% discount on the next races by them! 😤 Not sincere enough to make things right and many runners were actually expecting either a refund or a free next race eh 😐 Many runners felt cheated and they just simply and conveniently push the blame to the marshals.