Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon 2019

[Jman888]

  On 12/27/2019 at 4:58 AM, Kusje said:

This is the standard of the standchart marathon.

Photo taken today.

 

 

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saw it yesterday, still there 

[Jman888]

  On 1/18/2020 at 2:06 PM, Tianmo said:

since SG got so many parks and paths connected by park connectors, mayb sld consider doing SCSM using the connectors. Mostly sheltered and parks connected some more.

No scare wind no scare rain, got greenery to see some more...

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those path actually quite narrow.

[BanCoe]

I really doubt so it will be held in June as Sundown marathon should be near end May ..... so encroaching into it 

[inlinesix]

  On 1/18/2020 at 2:06 PM, Tianmo said:

since SG got so many parks and paths connected by park connectors, mayb sld consider doing SCSM using the connectors. Mostly sheltered and parks connected some more.

No scare wind no scare rain, got greenery to see some more...

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Based on the crowd size, PCN cmi la.  It not enough wide la.

Most run going through Garden by the bay east will run through Passion Wave.  That particular spot has always been a choke point.

[Tianmo]

  On 1/18/2020 at 3:21 PM, Jman888 said:

those path actually quite narrow.

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  On 1/19/2020 at 12:43 AM, inlinesix said:

Based on the crowd size, PCN cmi la.  It not enough wide la.

Most run going through Garden by the bay east will run through Passion Wave.  That particular spot has always been a choke point.

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I talk cork one lah, will never happen....

[Victor68]

  On 1/18/2020 at 2:06 PM, Tianmo said:

since SG got so many parks and paths connected by park connectors, mayb sld consider doing SCSM using the connectors. Mostly sheltered and parks connected some more.

No scare wind no scare rain, got greenery to see some more...

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Hello, run in Tekong or Jurong island better lah. The whole thing about this marathon is not about exercise hor, it is about showing Singapore night scene lah like F1. Jam is here to stay just when and how you avoid it lor. F1 we all have managed, so what this this single day event right?

[13177]

  On 1/19/2020 at 12:43 AM, inlinesix said:

Based on the crowd size, PCN cmi la.  It not enough wide la.

Most run going through Garden by the bay east will run through Passion Wave.  That particular spot has always been a choke point.

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Any PCN, parks and even the garden by the bay east, all are still quite small and cannot handle the huge crowd size. The only way to handle such crowd size is to run on public roads, thats why they need to close some public roads partically.

[BanCoe]

  On 1/20/2020 at 2:58 AM, Victor68 said:

Hello, run in Tekong or Jurong island better lah. The whole thing about this marathon is not about exercise hor, it is about showing Singapore night scene lah like F1. Jam is here to stay just when and how you avoid it lor. F1 we all have managed, so what this this single day event right?

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F1 is restricted to only a small part of city and limited people coming in/ going out whereas marathon spans a much more bigger area and more footfall all over the place 

[Victor68]

  On 1/20/2020 at 12:43 PM, BanCoe said:

F1 is restricted to only a small part of city and limited people coming in/ going out whereas marathon spans a much more bigger area and more footfall all over the place 

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Sir that small part forms the CBD whilst the big part is sub urban. If you work around the F1 track, tell me the traffic is smooth. Haha

[13177]

  On 1/20/2020 at 10:50 PM, Victor68 said:

Sir that small part forms the CBD whilst the big part is sub urban. If you work around the F1 track, tell me the traffic is smooth. Haha

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Even the F1 affected that small part of CBD and yet the inconvenience caused very big lo. Wonder how long more F1 will be in sg? Lol.

[Victor68]

  On 1/21/2020 at 1:33 AM, 13177 said:

Even the F1 affected that small part of CBD and yet the inconvenience caused very big lo. Wonder how long more F1 will be in sg? Lol.

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If people still don't know. In Singapore,  we still very much embedded with colonial mindset. Almost everything we consult the west and emulate them. True, they were once the driver but that is no more the truth. They throw shit and we think it is gold. Time to wake up and truly evaluate them. 

[inlinesix]

  On 1/21/2020 at 2:09 AM, Victor68 said:

If people still don't know. In Singapore,  we still very much embedded with colonial mindset. Almost everything we consult the west and emulate them. True, they were once the driver but that is no more the truth. They throw shit and we think it is gold. Time to wake up and truly evaluate them. 

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Even Vietnam join F1 bandwagon le

[Ender]

One of the unusual but heart breaking reason to run marathon. Running can be a emotional coping mechanism.

https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/article/3286029/japan-man-loses-wife-3-kids-quake-honours-memory-running-marathon-their-photo?module=perpetual_scroll_0&pgtype=article

Japan man loses wife, 3 kids in quake, honours memory by running marathon with their photo

Fran Luin Beijing

Published: 6:00pm, 11 Nov 2024Updated: 6:21pm, 11 Nov 2024

A Japanese man who lost his wife and three children in the devastating Noto earthquake early this year has completed a marathon race near their home wearing their photo on his T-shirt in memory of them.

On January 1, a magnitude-7.5 quake hit Noto Peninsula of central Japan’s Ishikawa prefecture.

The deadliest earthquake in Japan since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake caused a total of 401 deaths, injured more than 1,300 people and damaged 133,000 homes across nine prefectures.

The 42-year-old police officer in Ishikawa’s capital city Kanazawa, Keisuke Oma, lost his wife Haruka, 38, eldest daughter Yuka, 11, elder son Taisuke, 9, and younger son Sosuke, 3, in the earthquake.

They were at his wife’s parents’ home when the quake struck.

Oma went outside by himself to check the surroundings when their house started shaking, and before he realised what was happening, a landslide buried the home and killed all inside.

Police officer Keisuke Oma with the family he lost in the powerful earthquake. Photo: Interviewee

Oma told Japanese news outlet TV Asahi that he wished “to have died with his family”, but decided to live on believing he was “for some reason given life”.

Ten months after the earthquake, Oma told the Yomiuri Shimbun he had completed a marathon race, held in Kanazawa on October 27, together with his family.

Oma wore a photo of them on his jersey and finished the full marathon in a time of three hours and 58 seconds.

When Oma signed up for the race in April, he had not run a marathon for six years.

He said he did so for his two elder children, who updated their best scores at their school’s marathon race and fulfilled their family motto, “If there is a will, there is a way”, before they died.

Oma said his race was the inheritance of his children’s spirit.

He ran 10 to 20km in his neighbourhood, wearing the same jersey with their photo on it, to practise for the race every day.

Oma says he was spared his life “for some reason”, prompting his running endeavour. Photo: YouTube

He ran past his wife’s office, the park and coastline where his family used to play, and told them again and again in his heart: “Here I am.”

Oma said as he finished the marathon, he said he could hear his family praising him from heaven saying: “You are so handsome.”

Although he said he was still in deep mourning for his family, he knew he must move on with his life on behalf of them: “It is not just my life. I cannot always live in the past.”

“Your family must be still around you and cheering you up. I hope the father can stay strong and live a peaceful life,” a Japanese online observer said.

Edited November 11, 2024 by Ender