Melaka Heritage City Half Marathon 2016 (Range: 12km)

15 Jan 2016, Friday,
The registration is open since 15 Jan 2016, but the event organizer are updating some 'Important' new feed in their form. So, there are some problems that registrants might be encountered such as 'the form is not longer accepting new submission' or fail to make payment. So they decided to close the registration and website will be re-open by 16 Jan 2016.

Actually the event organizer forgot to add the processing fee RM 5 in their system.

According to their statement at 7:45pm,
"We would like to apologize that our website system cause a lot of problems to registrants. We are now trying our best to settle all the technical problems as soon as possible. We would like to announce the website will be closed for a short period due to unstable. Once it turned stable, we would reopen again for online registration. For those who had done payment early before the website update but not yet receive email. It is because the payment haven't include the processing fees (RM 5). So, we will manually send the email to them for requiring them to complete the rest of the payment (Processing fee - RM 5). Sorry for the inconvenience caused."


16 Jan 2016, Saturday,
Before 12pm, I register Melaka Heritage City Half-Marathon 2016 (12km)
through the website http://www.tntevent.my/.

I am able to grab my golden time to get early bird rate. It is 'ONLY' limited to first 250 participants.
The registration fee for 12km run is RM 55.
RM 50 is their ticket fees for early bird rate in 12km.
That RM 5 is a processing fees.
The CUT-OFF TIME for 12km is 3 HOURS.

11:41:41am, I received a sms stated:
"RM0.00 Thank you for using your Credit Card ending XXXX @ PAYPAL for USD 1.00 16/01 11:41. For any inquiry please call bank."
My Question: Why paypal charge USD 1?
Event Organizer Answer: that is the processing fee charge by paypal.

Early Bird online registration is closed after 1:30pm.
Normal rate online registration will open soon!

According to their statement at 6pm,
"Hi, we thank you all for your feedback as it means a lot for us. We have troubleshoot the current registration system and have decided to cooperate with MYraceonline in our next registration for your better experience. Kindly stay tuned as we will be giving a special rate for those who are unable to enjoy our early bird rate. The registration will be available on next week. Thank again for all your support."


23 April 2016, Saturday, Race Kit Collection,
1:10pm, on the way to Malacca from Johor Bahru.
4:15pm, arriving to Melaka Wonderland Theme Park and Resort, to collect race T-shirt and Bib Tag.
My Bib Tag number is E1798.


24 April 2016, Sunday,

4am, wake up.

6am, from Sunflower Hotel, reach to Melaka Wonderland Theme Park and Resort.

6:29:20am, start running 12km.

8:14:48am, finish running 12km.

After finish running 12km, the event helper passing me a light blue colour goody bag.
Inside the goody bag got a finisher medal, a bottle of drinking water and useless sponsor voucher.


Results:
Net_Time = 1:45:29
Check Point 1_Time = 0:38:54
Rk Cat = 162 / 214 (E - 12KM MEN OPEN)
Rk Mix = 179 / 234 (Men Only 12km)
Rk Over = 258 / 400 (Overall 12km)


Comments regarding my 12km run:

For me who came all the way from Johor Bahru, what I could do was shake my head at the end point.

1. I think safety is very much compromised for this event.
2. I think is highway run, and not a city run, neither heritage.
3. The water stations were not spaced out appropriately. 
4. One of the water station is left unattended. Found a lot of 1.5 liter Revive bottles thrown around the water station. 
5. No traffic control.
6. None road marshal along the road. 
7. Runners were zig zagging crossing the highway, running like a headless chicken. Running in the middle of the road with fast moving car, busses, and trucks passing by next to runners on the highway.
8. The most important problem is that the event organiser leave the runners on a high speed highway without even allocating a lane for runners.That's incredibly dangerous.
9. Volunteers were able to direct the traffic but would be much safer with Rela / Police's presence.
10. By the way, the race T-shirt and finisher medal are nice.
11. I would like to show my appreciation to the volunteers who came forward to help out with this event. They could have chosen to sleep in on their precious Sunday morning, but they gave up their comfy beds for this race.