Chua Chu Kang B.I.G Farm Walk and Run 2014 (10 km)

This is my first time participation of 10 km competitive run for this run.

This is the first competitive run without personal BIB and without prices.

Woke up at 5:45 am and took some light soy drink breakfast and some bread.

Parked at one of the nearby Multi-Storey car park.

Reached the venue after a short walk at 7:00 am with wife and daughter (both of them participated 3 km Fun Walk). I did a slow jogged as part of the warm up preparation. The weather is cooling with cloudy sky but the haze PSI is around 97 at 7:00 am at 94 at 8:00 am.

This is the first time started from first row. No local top runners participated this run since no prices were  given.

Started the race at 7:29 am and completed 7.91 km according to my Soleus GPS watch for 38 minutes 59 seconds with average speed of 12.1 km/h.

Felt great to be one of the front runners for this race.

The lead traffic police on police motorbike occasionally slowed down and even stopped waited for the champion to catch up since his speed wasn't the fastest with the absent of top runners.

Quite surprising, there wasn't even a single female runner whom able to keep pace with all the front runners including me.

Took half bottle of water at 4 km (they should not handed out water bottle) and one cup of water at 6 km.

Have a good run and finished in top 30. May finished in top 5 if there was a veteran category.

My 2XU singlet is useless with so much sweat retention and stick to my skin felt very uncomfortable and distracted my run.

Felt surprised when the finisher medal were given out at the finisher line at 8 km. The finisher line should be at the opposite road after a u-turn around 9.3 km.

Took few pieces of banana, one bottle of water and few cups of cold Milo.

Many runners complained both water points ran out of water.

Despite some minor hiccups, quite happy with the organizer with quite well organized and value goodies bag and some organized activities with the lowest $10 registration fee which was heavily subsidized by PA.

They should at least provide some prices for top 3 or even up to top 10 Men's and Women's open category !