Seet Thiam Huat Says:
December 13th, 2006 at 11:51 am e
Hey Racer,
Thank you very much for participating in the race. I am the technical director and on behalf ofthe committee, we sincerely hope that your team has enjoyed the entire race!! Hope to see you in the next race!
It’s great to receive comment from him. I feel the personal touch to the race, even though i don’t know the other participants or the organisers.
I have this feedback which i have decided to omit in the previous post. Reason being that i know the SAFRA staff and i have foreseen the bottleneck.
The race is certainty well-managed, with adequate marshals and directions. However one area that could be better managed is the queue at the bottle neck. Frankly being caught up in the bottleneck for over a hour is ridiculous.
My team is in the second position (there are three teams in the same category, but the first is very fast and the third one registered but we didn’t see them along the way). So my partner and i are in good position to win the prize. Even though i can’t run, we managed to arrive at the last station at 12.45pm, with slightly more than 1 hour from cut off time.
However given the 4 lanes at the ascending tower and partcipants who seriously don’t know how to ascend, we waited in the queue for more than a hour. By the time we attempted the station it was 2pm and we have missed the cut off. Needless to say we cleared everything chop chop in probably 10 minutes. Which is funny because we could have reached the finishing line at 1pm if we skip the ascending part and suffer the penalty.
By the way, the penalty time for missing the station is 60 minutes and we waited more than that.
Because of the long wait we are not presented the prize at the award presentation. We thought we missed out on the prize until being informed by SAFRA staff after we got home.
I believe there is a better way to manage the queue. Knowing that while the teams in the open category in the queue are not in the top three position and there is a team going for the top three position, an express lane could be used for the team to “jump” the queue and clear the station immediately.
To add-on, other than this minor shortcoming, the entire race is well managed and we enjoyed ourselves.
