Energizer Night Race Goodie Box

Just received my Goodie bag from the energizer run :)

For most of you who don't know, about a month and a half ago, I took part in the Energizer Night Race at the Sepang Circuit.

However, the event was poorly managed by the organizers, a one 'Expose Media'. Because of this, the people at Energizer stepped up and took full responsibility for the entire thing. They refunded everyone back in full and they also sent out the Goodie bags that most people failed to collect on the day itself. Read on to find out why me and the 10000 other runners say it was terribly managed :P

Problems of the Energizer Night Race 2011 :

• RM10 parking. Legal/Illegal? Syndicate?
  

People were dressed in RELA uniforms outside, 'selling' parking tickets (blank pieces of pink coloured paper) that cost RM10. Even after some paid the absurdly high fee, there literally wasn't enough space (no not parking spaces, I literally mean ground area) for people to park their cars. And its all the way out in Sepang!! There are no buses that go by or LRT or MRT stations around! How else can some one go to the race if not by car ? And when I say 'people were dressed in RELA uniforms' , you have to understand that getting a RELA uniform is as easy as going into a uniform store and picking it up. How do i know if the people there weren't trying to pull a big hoax ?

• Not enough headlamps

After going through the tight narrow tunnel (picture below), I reached this room literally full of people, pushing and shoving each other, trying to get to the stack of boxes at one end of the room that contained the headlights. There were no personel in charge of giving out the lights at all. How were they suppose to know who signed up and who didn't ? Who paid RM50-70 registration fee and who didn't ? In the end, lots of runners didn't get their headlamps.

• Only one water station functioning instead of two.

Not only was there just one water station through out the whole race, they gave out those 1.5L bottles of water! If you're new to long distance running, picture this : You're tired and exhausted after running for some number of kilometers. You come across a water station that's suppose to supply u with a sufficient amount of water to rehydrate you and moisten you're throat again. Instead of giving you paper cups of water that can be disposed of at a rubbish bin set up near by, they give you a big 1.5L bottle. What are you gonna do with a big bottle like that ? Drink 500ml and throw the rest away? Or drink 500ml and carry the other 1L with you, its not like you're EXHAUSTED or anything RIGHT ?

• Lack of direction by race marshals at finishing line. They were rude.

• Unorganized distribution of goodies bag.

Only 2 collection counters were present during that night. Both with a line of participants each literally (I can not stress this anymore than I am now) taking me 15 minutes to walk to the end of (just one of the lines) . They began throwing the bags out at people after sometime.

Can you see the Goodie bags collection counter ?

At the counter area.

• No finisher medals

From the event's website, it is stated that if a participant finished the race within a given amount of time, he or she is entitled to a finisher medal. When i reached the finishing line they (the race marshals) told me that medals were only for the top 10 runners. Lots of other runners were absolutely frustrated when told this.

• Not to forget, the rude MC

I'll let the MC's post on her Facebook wall speak for itself:

And yes, the English she used then was as sucky as the one in her post. Loads of people couldn't understand half the rubbish she was blabbering on about.

With all that in the past, I was happy to have gotten justice :) And my medal of course :D

The parcel :)

Addressed to me :D (I don't get much mail, so 'syok' a little) :D

The medal :) (front)

Back

The finisher shirt

Some freebies, from the left : The headlamp 'given out' on that night (its because some people didn't get their headlamps that they had to give everyone a new one because they didn't know who got theirs and who didn't), a razor and a battery charger.

Top (the finisher certificate) and bottom (the bag that all the goodies were suppose to be given out in )

Thats it for now :)

Me and some friends plan to climb Broga Hill on Monday, so I'll most probably be posting on that next :)