Wanna have a personalize Pacesetters finishing T-shirt with your name on it for FREE for finishing 2012 SCKLM Full Marathon?

This was announced by a committee member from Pacesetters Athletic Club Malaysia. If you are an active member with no overdue subscription, you will be entitled to a personalized Pacesetters finishing T-shirt, provided you finished the SCKLM Full Marathon and register with the club's Secretary by 15 June 2012. I just renewed it for the 2nd time. Sadly only for Full Marathon.

With a mere RM36 a year, one gets a small discount from races organized by PACM, some discounts from selected running outlets and also quarterly magazine. All these would make your RM 36 invested returns in no time.

A check was done with Ms Wendy Soo and according to her, new members (can lah!) also entitles to the finishing T, provided one subscribe to the membership fast. However, I am not sure how fast? Try giving her a call at 03-7971 9766 to find out more

Are you ready for SCKLM 2012?

Race Entry Pack Collection (REPC) venue confirmed:
ETCi - Exchange Trade Centre, Dataran Merdeka, No 70, Jalan Raja, 50350 Kuala Lumpur

It's located at the basement of Dataran Merdeka.For more info: http://bit.ly/scklm2012-REPC
Date: 20 June, 21 June, 22 June & 23 June 2012
Time: 12pm – 8pm (20 June – 22 June 2012 
          11am – 6pm (23 June 2012)

If you are unable to collect your packs on the abovementioned dates, you may appoint a representative to collect on your behalf. Your representative will have to produce their identification card or passport, completed authorisation letter and a photocopy of your identification card or passport.

Each appointed representative can collect up to a total of 6 entry packs including their own if they are a runner themselves. 

Authorisation letter can be downloaded here.

Also brave yourself to start with others based on your registered category. Refer to the category breakdown for SCKLM 2012.

Sundown Last minutes change route

SINGAPORE: The first and only night marathon in Singapore has, unfortunately, drawn flak again.

More than 28,000 people have signed up for Saturday's 2012 Sundown Marathon, and many have taken to the event's Facebook page to voice their anger and frustration after being informed only two weeks ago of last-minute changes to the race route and start times.

The fifth edition of the marathon was initially expected to debut a new route that would take runners in the 42km marathon from the start point at Nicoll Highway to the West Coast before heading back to the city.

But at the Sundown Race Expo on May 11, event organisers HiVelocity announced that the full marathon participants will now start at Nicoll Highway and head towards East Coast Park via the Marina Barrage before making their way back to the start point.

Race start times for all three events have also been pushed back by an hour to 10.30pm for the 10km category, and 12.30am for the 21km and 42km race.

At last year's marathon, participants from all three categories started and ended their races at the Changi Exhibition Centre.

"This must be the worst Sundown Marathon ever ... (they) decided to change the time as and when they like. And now, the route itself is changed," said Eugene Tan in a posted comment.

Added Hilary Francis: "Changing the start time so significantly (two) weeks before the race is irresponsible and shows a lack of planning."

Runner Cindy S E Peh also posted a comment which said: "With the half and full marathon flagging off together ... Human jam everywhere! Just that it's happening in the middle of the night this time round. Thumbs down."

But HiVelocity director Jeffrey Foo told Today that they had been working on the issue with the Traffic Police, the Land Transport Authority (LTA), the Singapore Sports Council (SSC) and other relevant parties since December, and had to consider factors like the event's impact on businesses and stakeholders along the race route during peak hours and disruption to traffic. A solution was only reached two weeks ago.

"We understand that (the changes were late) but we were hoping to push till the last minute. We will continue to work on getting the route to the West Coast for next year," said Foo.

"The learning lesson is we want to engage authorities at a much earlier time (in future)."

Foo also acknowledged participants' concerns over the decision to flag off the 21km and 42km race together at 12.30am at the start point.

To help deal with that, runners will be segregated by the different time pens - where runners will stand in their estimated completion time zone - to mimimise congestion at the Nicoll Highway flag-off point.

With the races expected to finish later on Sunday morning, transport arrangements have also been made for a late night bus service (S$5) from 12am to 6am to ferry participants from the race village to designated MRT stations islandwide.

"We want to give half and full marathon runners, especially the fast runners a chance of breaking away and avoid them bunching together. There will also be bicycles to clear the way for runners leading the pack," said Foo.

"One reason for delaying the races by an hour was because of the Saturday night traffic and safety. This is to give participants an undisrupted and better race experience."

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