2010 渣打馬拉松暫定日子

spmho

原帖由 lvrunner 於 2009-8-11 03:02 發表

                               
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George ~ Honolulu Marathon start time is 5am.  I have to get up at 2am every year.  Wait in line at the shuttle stop by 3:45am.  Tough!!!!!  I think the RD for the HK marathon should change all the  ...

lv
SCM is so speical that 10k participants were much more than full marathon
only less than 5000 people in full marathon while more that 10000 in 10k

spmho

原帖由 佐治男孩 於 2009-8-11 03:11 發表

                               
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lvrunner, I hear you.  When I watched the cable TV recordings on the HKSCM, I thought I didn't see it right the 1st time.  I re-watched the recordings and confirmed that the Marathon started at 8  ...

george...don't expect hk organizer with same thinking with runner.

though the event was called 'international'
consider the course, event time, race atmosphere.....was actually not 'international' at all...

organizer always claimed that SCM was getting more people to join (due to overwhelming participants in 10k)

spmho

原帖由 Left3 於 2009-8-11 13:56 發表

                               
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In case you did not know...

There was a petition signed by over 300 runners back in March this year. There were a number of issues raised, one of them is the starting time. I don't know much detail, but I heard the organizer has received the letter and looking forward to make some changes.

I run the first 10K in 1997. It was quite a well organized event, but of course there were much less people participated back then. The problem now is that SCM has become such as carnival and festival with so many people, yet the organizers did not make signifcant changes to response to new demand, serious and casual runners alike.

Many simple effort can really improve the race and runner's enthusiam, for example, how about a finisher medal and a finisher T-shirt??? at least we can all brag about it in the office, rather than the same looking design year after year.......  

well enough of my complaint, but I hope they will response to our petition.

Left3 ching
i appreicated the action done by hkrunners in that action.
the petition actually addressed some minor issue. e.g toilet arrangement, water station arrangement.....

however, major issues such as race course, event time....can never be honored
unless someone who know running in authority.

spmho

原帖由 佐治男孩 於 2009-8-11 23:09 發表

                               
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Surprising.  What you mentioned are the things most people take it for granted.  All races here have those things.  I am surprised that the HKSCM doesn't.  I guess I should change my plan and run Shanghai in 2011 then.

I just want to add that I think many of the ching's ctse's who ran HKSCM last couple of years could probaby be capable of running 5 or more minutes faster if the start time is at 6am or earlier.

though offical finish time is 5hr 30min....
if someone cannot manage to reach several check points before specific time, offical will set up net, runners will be pushed to bus.

also, even runners can pass the last net....
if they finish more than 5:30:00, even 5:30:01, no offical result will be offered.