Running Cuppa: [Racekit] NM Galaxy Road Run 2014 (2nd Series)

Saturday 17 May 2014

[Racekit] NM Galaxy Road Run 2014 (2nd Series)

NM Galaxy Road Run 2014 - 2nd Series is going to be held at Padang Merbok on 18th May 2014 (Sunday).

Race pack collection was scheduled on 16th and 17th May 2014 at Wisma OCM.

For those who participated on the 1st Series Run will recall the disastrous experience in collecting the race pack at The Marathon Shop. Mostly queued up for more than an hour to collect the race pack under the hot sun. Not to forget, we were lining up on the road with moving vehicles all the time.

NM Galaxy Road Run 1st Series Collection Day

I expect thing to get better for the 2nd Series and the organiser will learn from their past lesson in managing the race pack collection. I collected numerous race pack from Wisma OCM and seldom encountered delay. Spacious space to allocate the runners for collection.

Gosh! Things only get worst! The organiser does not seem to learn anything from the past experience. I reached Wisma OCM about 11.30am. They split up few counters; three counters for individual collection less than 3 pax and one counter for bulk collection (more than 3 pax).

Runners who are queuing behind me are complaining about the slow moving staffs. They do not seem to know what they are doing. Certainly the number of staffs is insufficient to handle the crowd.

The Queue is getting longer and longer!!

The Staffs

Someone behind me who collecting for 4 pax came up with a great idea to queue up at the individual counter to collect the race packs. All he need to do is just to queue up 2 times. Guess what?! The brilliant guy managed to collect them within 15 minutes, whereas, the queue for bulk collection did not move at all.

I'm not trying to judge the organiser. Maybe some comments from Facebook can give you all some ideas of my frustration.

Since damage was done, I think they improved a little bit on the number of staffs on the 2nd day of collection. Some runners told me not much delay for the collection for that day. Photos were taken in the morning about 11am.