SHAPE Night Run 2010

My very short weekend in KL was for the SHAPE Night Run 2010, my 3rd event for the year.

Here's some pictures to tell the story :

Arrived just after 6 pm, via KLIA Transit and Nadi Putra bus. As expected, the atmosphere was kinda festive - music, booths, etc.

My first ever experience using a Portaloo. Claustrophobic! Just like on planes.

A clown doing what he does best - clowning around.

Goodie bags galore - pink for ladies, red for the men. As long as you finish you get one.

I wish I had them roller blades!

These friendly kids wanted to camwhore so I obliged :)

'Official' pic?

Waiting - not long afterwards they started the warm up session with instructors from True Fitness. The upbeat music was from BEP and we wound it down with Jason!

MCs - Jay, I-don't-know-who, and Ferhad. I think they ran the Fun Run 5 km.

Pole dancing! Thankfully more of the athletic kind, rather than the erotic ;P Crazy limbs. Very strong core.

No mantra this time (the ink wouldn't stick) so I had my pink ribbon instead.

Waiting in the pen.

Off we go!

Crossing the bridge towards the UFO-like PICC and around it.

The first marker I noticed. I don't know who that is, I just snapped a pic and ran on. And ran and ran and...then walked. From 4km onwards I adopted a walk-run strategy. The night was cool from a nice light breeze. We ran past buildings and bridges, no pics though.

One more!! It's so close already! We had to go around another building for the final 2 km. I was almost cursing.

Posing with my goodie bag and cert - didn't even bother to wipe my sweat, haha. Later I found that I was covered with a thin film of dust all over. Hmmm.

Impromptu 'friends'; took pictures and then they said 'See you next year!' and I said Penang! Penang! :) We laughed.

Goodie bag was okaylah - pink towel, pink razor, 6(!!!) small bottles of CLEAR shampoo, apple snack, Perskindol, TruDTox, a can of Revive, 2 granola bars, NTFlam, Rilax, vouchers (Kenko, LabSeries, Juiceworks, True Fitness, Mierica). Bottle of water and green apple after the race.

Good Things :

• good accessibility.
• goodie bag! :)
• (warm) water stations every 2 km I think - but no isotonic.
• good markers, traffic control, marshalls.
• smaller crowd :)

Not So Good Things :

• weird flag off. A non-event.
• 'Aunty' doing part of the emcee-ing. Huh?
• no cheering teams.

Overall I had fun and definitely want to be back next year!