Yesterday I ran and finished the 1st ever SMTown Run Club event and I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand I finished the race and I finished with my best time (84 minutes) and I am super proud of myself that I finished and didn’t get injured. Also I got a lot of free stuff from the run kit, the finishers kit, and then they had a bunch of sponsors who were doing giveaways. It was also cool to see all the different idols participating and even getting to high five Minho who after finishing once went and did the Run again so he ran by me 3 times. WayV and Minho’s performances were also super cool and especially impressive since they all participated in the 10k earlier in the day.
That being said there were a lot of areas that could be improved on.
For starts the race course.
It was longer than 10km according to my tracker and several other people the course was actually ~11.3 km meaning that it was over a kilometer longer than it should have been.
The race was mostly flat but started and ended with a pretty large steep uphill and there were a couple other slopes. I would guess about 2km had some kind of slope.
Also the location was in the middle of nowhere. I understand wanting to minimize interference but traffic was really bad even taking the shuttle bus and there was not a lot around. Also since it was remote the bathroom lines were crazy long and there was no soap or water to wash hands.
Speaking of the shuttle bus I appreciate that they had free shuttle buses but they needed more and a better schedule. There was a schedule shared with the morning shuttle times but in actuality it was not followed and the schedule was whenever a bus showed up. In the afternoon the performance ended around 4:15 and the buses didn’t arrive till 5:30 so they just had everyone sit on the ground for over an hour for the first batch to arrive. I am lucky enough I made it on the 1st batch but if I didn’t it was over an hour till the next batch.
Lastly, the performance. It was advertised as H2H, WayV and Minho and as being from 2 to 4:30. However there were also 2 DJs who performed until ~3:15 then H2H came out (tbh their performance was not great. Like I get they are rookies but still I expected better especially since none of them did the run). They performed 4 songs and then WayV came on and performed 4 songs and lastly Minho performed 4 songs. The performance wrapped up around 4:15 and there was less than an hour of idols performing. Maybe my expectations were too high but from the instagram I was expecting longer performances.
Like I said it was a bit of a mixed bag and there were definite organizational and logistical issues that need to be addressed like the course length being wrong but in general I did have fun and am proud of myself for successfully finishing the run. Also the djs were good and WayV and Minho were fun to see. If they do it again next year I will probably run again although I may just get a taxi and bring a change of clothes and shoes
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