Sundown Marathon 2011

Notice the adidas logo has been removed for the 2011 promotion poster, I wonder if there will be a new sponser after 3 years, this is the normal practice to a change in sponsorship every 3 years.

Received an email today, on the registration for Sundown Marathon at the 2010 Sports and Fitness Expo to be held from 19 - 22 November. It is the same date for the collection of the race pack for Standard Chartered Marathon. Received 2 messages from my runner friends today on whether to sign up, with the coming marathon to plan for in the next 2 weeks, I will probably not worry about this.

Having took part in 3 consecutive Sundown races, was rather disappointed when I see there is another price increment on the race fees. Well, all the race fees are increasing every year, 10% at least, as a matter of fact a runner will not complain on the price if he is running, else just skip it. But I can sense that for the last few years, organizing a race is a big business, with probably good profit. Example is this year Standard Chartered race increase to 60k, up from 50k in 2009. And the plan is to increase to 100k participants in the next few years.

In the recent Great Eastern 2010, there are a record of 10k runners, but only around 4,200 finished the race, the rest are DNF and DNS. Just purely marketing & promotion strategy for the brand to show how successful the race was. It is not recommened to sign up for a race without proper training.


Great Eastern Women 10k
www.women10k.com

DNF - Did not finish
DNS - Did not start