Mizuno Wave Run

Will be running in this year Mizuno Wave Run.

Date : 27 July 08
Venue : Temasek Poly sports stadium
Time : Should be 0730

Mizuno Wave Run 2008 poster

Almost all the runners encountered bad experience in the 2007 Mizuno Wave run, which i decided to skip the running and aimed straight to the goodie bag collection. Below are the email, which was sent by the organizer, regarding about the bad experiences:

"Dear Participants,

Thank you for attending the Mizuno Wave Run 2007. We are pleased to announce that you have helped raised $50,000 for both The Society for the Aged Sick Home and Bedok Reservoir Dragon Boat House Building Fund. This could not have been done without your participation.

We would also like to take this opportunity to apologise for the confusion and unpleasant experience during the run. We acknowledge that there were several concerns during the run and kindly allow us to explain:

It was unfortunate that there were two events running concurrently at the Bedok Reservoir Park. Apart from the Mizuno Wave Run, the Aljunied GRC also planned a Walk-a-Jog for its elderly residents. We were unaware that the latter event was situated very closely to ours and when we found out, it was beyond our control to shift ours to another area. It was also because due to the lack of space at the reservoir, both events were located very closely to each other and thus resulting in overlapping of events.

In addition, as both events were within close proximity, the GRC has requested from VGO Corporation Limited to use the stage for their prize-giving ceremony. Out of goodwill, we obliged. The timing of the GRC’s prize-giving ceremony was intended to be different from ours. But in reality, this did not happened and resulted in even further confusion during the event.

Lastly, as the location was overcrowded by people, the road marshals could not be identified amongst the crowd and thus not able to guide the runners properly to the finishing line.

With regards to the collection of goodie bags, due to the lack of manpower and insufficient planning for the sizes, we were not able to issue the bags as quickly as we hope to. Plus, there were a sizeable number of runners who requested to exchange size on the spot and resulted in a longer queue time.

Please accept our apologies and we sincerely hope that this will not mar your enthusiasm to participate in the next Mizuno Wave Run. We are constantly looking into ways to improve the Run and if you have any ideas on how we can improve, please do not hesitate to write in to us at customerservice@vgocorp.com.

Once again, we thank you for your participation and sorry for the inconvenience caused. We hope to see you back again next year.

Yours faithfully,
VGO Corporation Limited "

These are the improvements which the organizer had vowed;

"Summary of Improved Mizuno Wave Run:

- NEW running route; same start & finish point; no more bottle-necked situation

- Electronic Timing using i-Tag – everyone will know their timing

- Better goodie bag – Mizuno duffle bag & limited edition running singlet (total worth $68.90)

- Events Organizer hired – better logistics, marshals to guide the runners throughout the run, clearer baggage counter, sufficient drinking points

- Lucky Draw – better prizes from Mizuno, World of Sports, Samsung, Sky Fitness and Fabulous Tan."

Below is the new running route for this year;

Route 2008

Hope to have good experiences this time round!