SCSM 2024, 1 Dec 2024 Sunday

I completed my 16th full marathon at the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2024, on 1 Dec 2024 Sunday. The race was supposed to start at 4:25am but my start pen E only get to crossed the start line at 5.10am. 

The race organisation seemed to have dropped in standard, or maybe the race should be controlled in terms of the number of participants. 

The road closures were not organised properly, we were just at the gate of the start point, but there were no road closure of that stretch of road. Race participants were made to wait for the flowing traffic, when the race had started!

I intend to talk about my race but I just had to get some vending of the lousy race organisation when we had paid  a hundred or more dollars on the race and not counting the transportation cost.

Roads at the race entrance should be totally closed to facilitate better human traffic flow. Otherwise please limit the number of participants!

The route plan was bad as well, those who reached the 30 km mark after 3 hours had to run about 8km on the elevated highway in scotching hot sun with totally no shade at all!

Not sure the if organiser is sleeping on the job or had they tried running 8km in the hot sun after they had completed 30km earlier! They should tried it before implementing the route. Not every participant run like Eliud! 

Anyway, I finished in 5 hours 8min 34sec!

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