Ipoh Centennial Run

A Run in 100 years, that what the slogan says.

It was a change of feel when we step into the Ipoh Padang. The field is vast and all the tent setup seems small. Approximately a 1000 runners as it seems. We started off just in front of the SMI school. The begining route take us round the town. It is a loop and we back to the starting area where we shoot off towards Kangsar Road. A straight and flat till we reached Tasek Road where we made our U-turn back home. Before the U-turn we saw a local runner was leading and 200M down a Kenyan.

It took me 1hr 50mins to complete the course and feeling surprised as to how I can did such a good timing without good training. Another surprised was why the Kenyan was not in the top 3 during prize giving ceremony.

Downside #1 : Later we found out that he lost his way back. The return leg, the marshal is a damn. Absolutely no one at all at all the junctions. Those marshal are not properly trained or inform as what need to do. They can even call those 21km runners to make a U-turn at where 10km need to make a U-turn. Why leh. The organization sucks.

Downside #2 - Not enough 21km medals for 21km runners. This really a superb let down. I never fancy Ipoh organise run ever since I got caught in such a mess from the Ipoh International Marathon.

Downside #3 - On our way home we decided to measured the distance. Oh shit just 18.9km. Curi ayam run

Plus side : The cheer leader routine demo, cultural show and various school bands performing was a real eye opener. The band uniform look neat, clean, tidy and the pattern they performed was good and interesting. Too bad I don't a camera on hand.

If anyone want to run this curi ayam run, just wait la for another 100 years.